Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers
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Kevin Spacey, giving the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival, urges TV channels to give viewers control. He points to Netflix's House of Cards release as evidence that audiences want to watch on their own terms.
HN cites it in streaming and piracy threads as an argument that giving viewers control is how to compete.
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> The market isn't "films". It is "entertainment". Kevin Spacey on this subject: [VIDEO] .
In this talk [VIDEO] he explains the series itself doesn't work well in a pilot: He wanted long story lines, and multiple complex characters, both of which are impossible in a pilot.
MPAA doesn't get it. Costly lobbying and crushing lawsuits is not how you defeat piracy. This is how you do it: [VIDEO]