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 [...]
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TorrentFreak: Piracy is Caused by Bad Distribution
Riley: Digital Downloads Are Not About To Kill Blu-Ray
I hate to admit it, but Duncan Riley from TechCrunch is probably right. Downloads will not kill Bu-ray anytime soon:
Blu-Ray will likely be the last big/ mainstream physical media technology ever and it will have a strong future. The various factors needed for mainstream digital downloading and viewing will eventually combine to finally kill Blu-Ray [...]
Format War 2.0: Physical vs. Downloads
It is clear that the latest high def DVD format war winner doesn’t matter since there is a new and better format: digital downloads. I honestly didn’t care who won the traditional war (although rooting for Blur-ray since Apple supported them) since I don’t use DVDs anymore. Digital renting is what’s in now. So [...]
Now a special announcement to the MPAA
That’s Motion Picture Association of America(MPAA) which also tries to hurt people that share:
I know that movies are more expensive to make than a music record, so I am going to spare you on my “anarchist speech”, but still you need to step it up a bit. No more you need this OS to play [...]