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I wrote to them and told them that ABC has been my news supplier for decades, but now I'll be switching to NBC. I'll also be cancelling my HULU sub.
As for their broadcast content, I told them that I will either pirate it, or watch it in TIVO, and skip the ads. That's what really hurts them.
All media companies do not serve entertainment as their core business. They are literally nothing more than advertising platforms. That's where 100% of their revenues comes from. The entertainment is just bait, to make us sit on our couch, and hopefully be too lazy too move our fat asses when the ads come on.
So threatening to consume their expensive bait without consuming their revenue-producing ads, really hurts.
I'm sure the CEO got the message
Probably not a great idea to tell Disney in writing you will pirate their content.
Eh, Fuck them, what are they going to do about it? You think I gave them my name and address?
Besides, I haven't done anything wrong. I just told them of my intention, and that's not illegal. Maybe I'll follow through, maybe I won't. I'm Schrodinger's Pirate.
Yeah okay, just noting safety for anyone reading
How about just keeping it to yourself?
Duh, because I want them to hear from an angry longtime customer. They know that a person like me, who bothers to write to them, represents thousands of similar customers. If they hear from enough people, they may change their minds.
Don’t you still pay your cable provider if you TiVo ABC? Cable providers pay retransmission fees to the networks.
It's not a perfect system, but it still hurts them. They won't be satisfied with SOME of the money, they want it ALL.
Ads have been one of the most destructive forces on humanity in the last 100 years.
I play the guitar. I once knew a guy that pumped iron through ever commercial break.
None of that is the point. They want the chance to get into your brain, and if you don't even allow the ads to run, then they lose that opportunity.
They paid out all that money, and you're getting it for free. Corporations hate that more than anything.