Ironically, the video shows footage of some guy who supposedly had something to do with South Park (which is one of Viacom's properties). Every episode of South Park is available at Southparkstudios.com to watch streaming for free. Legally, on any device which has Flash (which still kind of sucks but it sure beats the hell out of having to torrent everything). There are also 15-second ads every so often in the episodes, but that's a small chunk of time compared to commercial breaks which can sometimes take a few minutes. I'm sure no small amount of profit is made from those ads, too.
South park is a perfect example of everything Viacom should be doing with the rest of its media. If Viacom would put up a website that streamed every spongebob episode for free, this would effectively eliminate one of the biggest reasons people pirate stuff: cost. As mentioned before, revenue could be collected from ads, making Viacom more money. Also not to mention that episodes could be viewed at will rather than at a predetermined, scheduled time, opening up the show to a wider audience.
Viacom is just one of those companies who had it MADE in the mid 1990s... with a near monopoly on some of the most fondly remembered cartoons and shows of our youths. However, the times have changed. They don't have it made anymore. Viacom could easily reposition themselves back at the top of the game by adapting to a new business model -- not unlike that of Southparkstudios.com --, but instead of going through the trouble to adapt to the changing times, they'd rather use litigation and legislation to cling to the past with a broken and outdated business model.
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Ironically, the video shows footage of some guy who supposedly had something to do with South Park (which is one of Viacom's properties). Every episode of South Park is available at Southparkstudios.com to watch streaming for free. Legally, on any device which has Flash (which still kind of sucks but it sure beats the hell out of having to torrent everything). There are also 15-second ads every so often in the episodes, but that's a small chunk of time compared to commercial breaks which can sometimes take a few minutes. I'm sure no small amount of profit is made from those ads, too.
South park is a perfect example of everything Viacom should be doing with the rest of its media. If Viacom would put up a website that streamed every spongebob episode for free, this would effectively eliminate one of the biggest reasons people pirate stuff: cost. As mentioned before, revenue could be collected from ads, making Viacom more money. Also not to mention that episodes could be viewed at will rather than at a predetermined, scheduled time, opening up the show to a wider audience.
Viacom is just one of those companies who had it MADE in the mid 1990s... with a near monopoly on some of the most fondly remembered cartoons and shows of our youths. However, the times have changed. They don't have it made anymore. Viacom could easily reposition themselves back at the top of the game by adapting to a new business model -- not unlike that of Southparkstudios.com --, but instead of going through the trouble to adapt to the changing times, they'd rather use litigation and legislation to cling to the past with a broken and outdated business model.