Kevin Spacey says TV and film have “learned a piracy lesson that the music industry hasn't”

Last week, Kevin Spacey was invited to give a keynote speech on piracy at Edinburgh Fringe Festival after his successful online series House of Cards with David Fincher, comparing changes in the TV and film world to that of the music industry.

The exclusive Netflix show House of Cards received nine Emmy nominations, including the first ever Emmy nomination for ‘Original Online Only Web Television’. ”Clearly, the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of ‘House Of Cards’ at once, proved one thing: the audience wants the control” said Spacey at the MacTaggart speech.

“They want the freedom. If they want to binge, as they’ve been doing on House of Cards and lots of other shows, then we should let them binge.”

Spacey also spoke about Netflix’s change to the wider piracy culture, comparing it to music’s inability to change. “We have demonstrated that we have learned the lesson that the music industry didn’t learn: give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they’ll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.”

The 54-year-old actor also suggested that any divide between online and TV consumption will fade and that the story of the media will become more important than the platform it is on in the future.

[via Huffington Post]