Posted on 04/11/2011 1:33:00 PM PDT by bronxville
Piratebay is located in sweden and the swedes did go after them more than a few times. I think instead of focusing on physical medium companies should be pushing the hell out of digital distribution. They already do this to a degree but nowhere near enough.
Why would someone pirate a movie besides the obvious? Probably because if you do most of your viewing on a computer its much easier to open a file then to find the DVD, pop it in, take it out when your done and then try to organize your massive collection. Not to mention that DVDs can get scratched and broken or lost or misfiled. Not to mention the fact that if its a hard to find dvd in stores and you don’t want to get it shipped its a hell of alot easier to download it and store it.
While you can have a hard drive failure or several most sensible people keep backups. Even better you have a service which lets you redownload the movie if by some mischance it does get deleted.
Physical formats for movies and games are going the way of the audio cassette. They’ll never go away fully but theres no point in clinging to them. Hell I get most of my music off the zune market place,and if I want to a watch a movie theres hulu, netflix, and amazon vod.
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