Piracy fill’s content companies inefficiencies void. I don’t advocate piracy, but sometimes users have no choice. One great example is TV content distribution. Studios insist they “know” what their customers want, but they fail to deliver, with their DRM crippled downloads or cumbersome web streaming.
Why can’t they just edit the show with advertising built in, and put it up on torrents themselves. That way they can charge advertisers for the 1 million + downloads big hits like Prison Break or 24 have.
They are inefficient at distributing TV shows for users to see in the US and lag in release times for consumers outside the US. A great deal of TV show piracy comes from abroad for this reason.
Finally there is a study to prove this:
In total, 70% of those who admitted to piracy agreed that “legal sites just don’t have the range of illegal ones” (try looking for Beatles tracks) whilst almost as many said they would pay for downloads, if what they wanted was available. This is probably also one of the main reasons why half of the BitTorrent downloads are TV-shows.
(Via TorrentFreak.)
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