Quote: Cronus "That's ridiculous. HBO have invested hundreds of millions in producing Game of Thrones ($50-60 million for series 1 alone). It's their product, they own it. This investment has to deliver a profit, and part of that is selling the product to overseas broadcasters. Sky, in turn, has paid a reported £150million for access to HBO's catalogue and are perfectly entitled to sell it to make their profit in turn.
What makes Game of Thrones any different to paying for other products that are the result of massive investment? Nothing. Or is it that you don't like your money going to 'big business', in which case I assume you don't buy cars, mobile phones, computers, flights, petrol, most food brands, etc, etc?
I find it sad people get so worked up about Sky Atlantic and series like GoT. It's a TV series, nothing more. if you're so desperate to watch it either pay up or download illegally and live with your conscience and the terrifying risk of a sternly worded letter from your ISP. I'm on Virgin and watched some of series 1 on Sky 1, never saw what was so amazing about it and certainly not bothered I can't see the rest yet.
Not that I'm precious about piracy - I watch the occasional film via a well known mobile app, either streamed directly to my TV or downloaded to hard drive. They're films I wouldn't pay to watch and if my ISP somehow manages to block it all I wouldn't be bothered. I'm not going to stamp my feet about watching a film or TV.'"
From my point of view, I am happy to pay for my TV, but I won't be made to pay through the nose for something I can easily watch for free - too much Yorkshire in me for that!
I pay £7 to netflix each month, even though I could turn up all of that for free but its reasonable and I like the ease of it and so I pay it.
Sky on the other hand insist that you pay a fortune for a steaming turd with a few gold nuggets in it. I would rather just access the nuggets and leave sky to flog the rest to some other sap.
EDIT: as for GoT, it's just a really well made, well acted and interesting programme, I watch very little TV but I look forward to this coming on, same with house of cards which was also excellent.
