Comments on: Sorry, Hollywood: Piracy may make a comeback

By: Kelley Mitchell

Kelley Mitchell — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:15:51 +0000

Your list only proves my point. The problem is consumers have to use many of those content providers you listed in order to simply access the content they want. Which means we need several subscriptions and popular movies are not even available on all of them because media companies give exclusive limited availability to whoever provides the highest bid.

By: SB

SB — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:28:33 +0000

Too bad I didn’t read this sooner to post this right at the beginning, but P2P does not equal piracy! There are plenty of legitimate uses for P2P. Sure, you could possibly say that a majority of it is piracy, but not all of it. To say so is to denigrate a perfectly useful technology.

By: Bobb Rashadd

Bobb Rashadd — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:27:28 +0000

It was never lost in the first place. p2p sharing is just as alive as ever and will not be totally vanquished.

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By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:01:42 +0000

It doesn’t have to be free at all. But many people feel like they have been ripped off for many years and they are taking something back. But i think everyone would want to put down some money for something like Netflix and have everything available. Just having the chance to watch a whole season of a tv series in a weekend. Stuff like that and without piracy warnings and trailers in front that you can’t skip. You only get bugged by that when you buy your film. And if you download you can get any file size (quality), and even file types (mp4) that work on your phone. It is not possible to get it from them and pay for it. But it is possible to get what i want for free as torrent. It is like they first want torrents to completely go away (with lawsuits) before they want to make their download business. But torrents ect only exist because there is no alternative. They have to come first. Netflix is a good start but it’s not in Europe for example. Where it’s already hard to get some US tv series. Guess what choice is left for them? And i do think there is plenty money there. 6 billion people on the planet, if they all have the opportunity to pay maybe as less as 0,5 usd per episode you are swimming in cash.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:37:42 +0000

Well they are not available where i live…

By: James

James — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:05:46 +0000

‘where the customers want to go’ is somewhere where everything is free. But there is no way to produce content of the quality we have been used to in past decades with the limited money from ad supported systems or the new streaming services. So people will either have to accept that they will have to pay a reasonable price for content, just like generations before them did, or they will have to learn to enjoy content of a lesser quality. Given that there is no sign of the former happening, it will be the latter.

By: Borders Design

Borders Design — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 01:20:06 +0000

Technology is always ahead of established businesses. What may mark individual companies as different, is their ability to use, or innovate, using existing & future technologies. Many of todays ‘buggy-whip’ manufacturers are innovating & using new technology with web sites such as Hulu, lastFM, Netflix or any of the more innovative firms trying to offer the legal services for consumers.

Although these ‘buggy-whip’ innovators are building on the established ‘product’ of Hollywood, MPAA, RIAA, etc, the companies producing & making this ‘product’ fail to see how well these other companies are marketing their [Hollywoods] wares.

Remember too, that the new fanged horseless carriages have flag bearing runners out in front, to warn pedestrians that they are coming; the various P2P, Torrent & streaming video sites fit well in this analogy, & yet Hollywood would prefer legal sanctions, & police action to shut them down, rather than welcoming new & innovative services that lead the way to where consumers want to go.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:57:16 +0000

Not only is it more user friendly and free it’s also generally better quality as well!

By: Arik Jones

Arik Jones — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:17:15 +0000

I hope piracy becomes so incredibly rampant that Studios have no choice but to sign over all content to Netflix and Hulu. I’d pay $20/month per service if it meant I had access to everything found on cable/OTA.

By: roblevine1

roblevine1 — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:26:15 +0000

The economic slowdown seems like a good excuse to pirate GigaOm Pro. Hope you don’t mind!