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Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers

Name: Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers
Description: 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.

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HN cites it in streaming and piracy threads as an argument that giving viewers control is how to compete.

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.

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on HN thread IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios

MPAA doesn't get it. Costly lobbying and crushing lawsuits is not how you defeat piracy. This is how you do it: [this video]

Argues giving viewers control is how to defeat piracy.

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@ericHosick Aug 2013 Cites it

on HN thread You have to beat the man to be the man

> The market isn't "films". It is "entertainment". Kevin Spacey on this subject: [this video] .

Kevin Spacey on entertainment as the market, not films.

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@PanMan Sep 2013 Cites it

on HN thread Why Netflix should buy AMC

In this talk [this 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.

Spacey explains why the series could not work as a pilot.

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