Dish Network’s Charlie Ergen: HBO Blackout Will Prompt ‘Game Of Thrones’ Piracy
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Dish Network’s Charlie Ergen: HBO Blackout Will Prompt ‘Game Of Thrones’ Piracy
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Charlie should be taking about how many customers have jumped ship and went to cord cutting to save money to be honest with you.
I totally agree with Charlie, most kids I know, under 25 can pirate or jail break about anything and many do. It is hard to know what is legal and what isn't in the internet world either. I know they go after pirates, but where they get one or two, there are a hundred others starting up. Welcome to the 21st Century.
I have my account credits standing by and ready to fire up HBO Now in another 5-8 weeks or so if AT&T and Dish can't come to an agreement.
I like Dish. Been with them since 1999. I did just that. I now get HBO via the Fire Stick live and on the Roku on Demand. Works great too.
Yep, same here, via Amazon Prime Video. One day, a good cloud based DVR will exist and then you'll see a mass exodus of "chord-cutters"
Not a fan of G_O_T.
I'm hooked on Barry, Hard Knocks, Real Sports and West World.
Wife likes VEEP.
Dish TV best get it together before my 2-yr prison term is up!!!
I'm hooked on Barry, Hard Knocks, Real Sports and West World.
Wife likes VEEP.
Dish TV best get it together before my 2-yr prison term is up!!!
Sad but EVERYTHING is out there if you know where to look...
Sadder that nothing is being done about it.
Sadder that nothing is being done about it.
Just read a couple of articles on the Dish HBO standoff and the conclusion is that they haven't been talking to each other for months. All they're doing is issuing statements blaming each other. I don't see HBO ever returning to Dish.
No inside knowledge here, but wouldn't surprise me to see DISH doing this to help the DOJ get the merger of AT&T and Time Warner reversed.
Personally I think it should be.
I'm not even sure what channel getting dropped would make me change these days, with so much being available via streaming. It would be different if I didn't have good broadband for sure, so I understand people without broadband access switching because of it.
I'd say it is a better than 50% chance HBO comes back when the DOJ suit against AT&T is over, one way or another.
I got Dish for an all in one (Convenient) source of TV entertainment.
About the only thing I watch while it's being broadcast is Live Sports, News & Specials that I don't want someone spoiling for me or being reported in the News the following day.
So, for me being able to set the DVR to record my favorite shows and watch them on my terms is Huge. When I switched to Dish I had a checklist of absolutes (Multi-ESPN's, HBO, Locals, Etc) DVR with high Storage, HD/4K (I know, Dish is lame on 4K) + other things...The Loss of HBO is a deal killer for me. We have Broadband (Only 300GB up & Down) I H8 having to have Dish and having to bounce out to go look for a single Station (HBO).
HBO is $15 mo on Amazon, start and stop anytime. I bought a month to rewatch GOT.
There is no cord cutting option that offers the features of DISH for less money, it doesn't exist. You can pay less money sure, but you get less. I searched and searched and found nothing that gives me the same channels + commercial skipping + DVR, for less money. I'm happy to be proven wrong.
There is no cord cutting option that offers the features of DISH for less money, it doesn't exist. You can pay less money sure, but you get less. I searched and searched and found nothing that gives me the same channels + commercial skipping + DVR, for less money. I'm happy to be proven wrong.
Last year's year end 10K is a work of art. Well worth reading the narrative. They really puffed it up compared to previous reports. After I read their novel, I felt like content delivery is the last business I'd want to be in.
Dish goes after At&T every which way, saying they are hoarding spectrum, selling content to themselves for less, and many many other nefarious tricks. I'm guessing they are trying to influence the Justice Dept and some other departments as well.
Game of Thrones Piracy, nothing new there.
I had read several years ago that Game of Thrones episodes were the most illegally downloaded shows in history.
Funny with all that illegal downloading I never read about one person being caught/charged for it.
I had read several years ago that Game of Thrones episodes were the most illegally downloaded shows in history.
Funny with all that illegal downloading I never read about one person being caught/charged for it.
Why should he be talking about that? That's old news and pretty boring too.
Don't care about 'Thrones," personally. Bill Maher's show and the boxing are more to my liking. That said, all concerned need to come together. HBO is losing at least $5 a month (based on a typical retail markup) for every dish subscriber they once had, and that adds up.
