Hollywood Panic: Inflation Spikes Streaming Prices, Piracy Rises, Studios Push for Site-Blocking Laws

Major Hollywood studios are panicking as video piracy is once again on the rise, with the industry's main lobbying organization demanding that Congress take action against piracy sites that are eating into studio profits at an ever-increasing rate.

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Roku Reveals Massive Data Breach - Here's What You Can Do to Protect Yourself

Streaming giant Roku has disclosed a massive data breach that has compromised more than 576,000 user accounts, marking the second security incident for the company in just a month.

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Gen Z and Millennials Say Streaming Costs Them Too Much a Month

Non-stop entertainment comes at a price and for Gen Z and Millennials that price is increasingly too high, a poll reveals.

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NFL to Auction Media Rights to Two Christmas Day Games, Bidding Starts at $50 Million

Many people will be opening presents on Christmas Day this year, including the NFL. And there's an excellent chance they'll be opening the most expensive present of all.

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Vinyl Records Outsell CDs for the Second Year in a Row

For the second year in a row, vinyl records have outsold CDs, solidifying their resurgence and popularity among music enthusiasts seeking physical media after tiring of the maze of streaming options.

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Hollywood’s Streaming Business on the Brink as Price Hikes Push More Americans Away

Hollywood's streaming business is on the brink of catastrophe while price hikes continue to push more American subscribers away.

Nolte: Two-Thirds Prefer to Watch Movies on Streaming over Theaters

Only 34 percent of American adults prefer watching movies in a theater, compared to 66 percent who prefer watching them at home, according to a poll.

Critics Warn of Woke Disney’s Plan to Monopolize Sports Streaming

Antitrust experts are raising alarm bells as entertainment giant Disney aims to control over 80 percent of nationally broadcast sporting events through joint venture with Fox and Warner. The CEO of competing platform Fubo says that Disney "has consistently engaged in anticompetitive practices that aim to monopolize the market, stifle any form of competition, create higher pricing for subscribers and cheat consumers from deserved choice."

Nolte: 7,000 Lousy Streaming Choices Keep Daniel Day-Lewis in Retirement

What's keeping Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis in retirement is looking at 7,000 streaming choices and realizing none are worth a damn.

Nolte: If Apple Can ‘Lose’ 650 of Steven Van Zandt’s Movies, Yours Sure Aren’t Safe

If you can’t hold the product or the title or the deed in your hand, it ain’t yours, and the fine print says they can take it away any time they want.

Nolte: Disney+ Faces ‘Wave of Subscriber Cancellations’ Over Price Increases

The Disney Grooming Syndicate is facing a “wave of subscriber cancellations” over Disney+ price increases.

FuboTV Sues to Stop Disney, Fox, Warner Bros. from Creating Streaming Sports Goliath

FuboTV -- the sports-oriented streaming service -- is suing to stop Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery from creating a rival service that would combine the three Hollywood studios' formidable sports programming into one mega-streaming package.

Streaming Data Reveals Older Shows More Popular Than Newer Ones

New streaming data has revealed that older television shows have performed better than newer shows in terms of views. 

Nolte: Hollywood’s Last Gasp Is Through Desperate Streaming Mergers

All that’s left is for Hollywood to try and recreate the racket known as cable/satellite TV through streaming mergers.

Nolte: Belligerent Netflix Refuses to Release Movies in Theaters

Netflix is smart. If you want to see a Netflix movie, you have nowhere else to go. This is how I would run Netflix.

Nolte: Pirate Streaming Sites Cost Hollywood $30 Billion Annually

Wall Street is living with the fear that streaming services will never match the massive income generated by cable TV.

Nolte: Almost 500 Fewer Lousy TV Shows Aired Last Year

Nolte: In 2022, a sewer pipe delivered some 2,264 TV shows to American households. Last year, that number dropped to 1,784.

Hollywood Streaming Fail: Amazon Laying Off 'Several Hundred' at Prime Video, MGM Studios

Amazon is laying off "several hundred" workers at Prime Video and MGM Studios -- the latest bloodbath for a Hollywood streamer as consumers hammered by the Biden economy continue cutting back on streaming subscriptions.

Nolte: Best Buy to End Sales of Blu-Rays and DVDs

We are doing this to ourselves. Are Americans now too fat and lazy to get off the couch to load up a DVD or Blu-ray no James L. Brooks can erase?

Tucker Carlson Launches Streaming Service to Solve the 'Propaganda Spiral'

Tucker Carlson launched his own streaming platform Monday, offering both free and paid video content in a subscription-based model.

Spotify Announces Layoff of 17% of Workforce in Desperate Struggle for Profitability

Spotify has announced layoffs impacting 17 percent of its employees, its third layoff of 2023. The Company is desperately chasing profitability, with CEO Daniel Ek explaining, “As we’ve grown, we’ve moved too far away from this core principle of resourcefulness."

Nolte: Hollywood Trembles as Dish Network Loses Another 64K Subscribers

Every American who cuts the pay-TV cord is a patriot… A patriot who saves a fortune…

Streaming Carnage: NBCUniversal's Peacock Loses $565M in 3 Months, Expected to Lose $2.8B in 2023

NBCUniversal's Peacock lost more than half a billion dollars during the three months of summer, the latest example of Hollywood's streaming carnage that has seen studios struggling to carve out a profitable piece of the home video market.