60 Minutes - Pirates of the Internet (2003) ... your thoughts now 6 years on?
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And there's the fact that computers are basically made to duplicate data, and we have whole industries trying to stop the very nature of computers and networks.
I don't think I will ever understand human nature.
But I sure miss Napster, and would've paid $50+ a month for that service alone. The record industry was just mentally deficient not to capitalize on that, no matter what Matt Maroon thinks about their intelligence.
To be fair, I think there is a clear distinction between piracy and p2p networks.
For example, Blizzard uses bittorrent to distribute patches for World of Warcraft, reducing load on their servers and thus, cost for them.
They were also (funnily enough) a relative early adopter of the Divx format back when it was almost exclusively used for movie sharing over the internet (aka Piracy)
The technology has advanced from mostly bittorrent instead of gnutella based networks.
The film industry is producing arguably better blockbusters (The Dark Knight vs Signs?) and are making more money than before with this year being one of the biggest years on record, even during a recession.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-boxoffice2-2009feb02,0...
Mediadefender are now involved in a case where they DOS'd legitimate servers.
...which if you check the article I linked is also reported.
Quote:
"An increase in ticket prices also helped boost January's box office. The average ticket price was $7.29 last month, up from $7.18 a year ago. But attendance surged in spite of the higher cost. Audiences bought 141 million movie tickets in January, up 16% from the 121 million sold during the same month last year."