The market for streaming video in Latin America is soaring, and revenues are expected to jump from $2 billion to $6 billion per year in the next five years. Legal subscriptions in Latin America for services like HBO on Demand, Netflix or Spotify are often around $10 a month, and business is booming in this C2C business model: content to consumer.
#Black box movies series#
Thanks to plummeting prices for streaming video over the internet, major media and entertainment companies have found a new way to bring their movies, series and news services to consumers. Like millions of people worldwide, I am addicted to Netflix, Spotify and streaming services that allow me to access thousands of movies and millions of songs. Within seconds, the salesman had found the local ABC affiliate in Boston and was streaming a crisp image of Good Morning America. As he scrolled through the alphabetical offerings (beginning with Algerian TV and ending with Vietnamese TV), I mentioned that I was from Boston. “This one has a thousand channels,” a salesman told me as he unpacked the box, connected it to a screen and began his sales pitch on why I should spend 480 reais (about $125) to have free - and illegal - access to HBO, FOX and ESPN.
#Black box movies software#
But during the Christmas 2018 rush, the hottest item for sale was a little black box no bigger than a couple of packs of cigarettes yet packed with enough computer chips, circuits and software to receive nearly every cable or streaming TV series on Earth. And packets of 50,000 emails (sorted by profession and region) can be had for just $3. Men weave through crowds pushing handcarts stacked high with garbage bags stuffed with knock-off Louis Vuitton handbags to be sold at $30 apiece. SÃO PAULO - This city’s teeming street markets are a counterfeiter’s paradise. This article is adapted from AQ’s print issue on piracy | Leer en español | Ler em português
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