Pirate Bay Trial
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- airey0
it's true that the industries are behind in delivery. but the pirate bay isn't offering product, or links to product that the creators get paid for. i'm all for the wake up call that the studios need but that's not the same thing as giing away pirated material. we've all downloaded the odd cd / vid (some more than others) but if the copyright infringement wasn't supported by this kind of action then who'd bother making anything? all our friends who are involved in bands / tv / etc would either have no work or have their pay reduced to almost nothing.
the studios def need to pull their head out of their arse and delivery needs to be faster and cheaper (try living in australia where we often have to wait a year to get content unless we simply buy through amazon.com for frustration, we still can't view hulu or any other online services thanks to publishing/distribution rights) but the argument that pirate bay put across:
"They are fighting tooth-and-nail to bring back the good old days, where there was a hard division into approved senders and passive consumer receivers, where the approved senders would compete for the wallet of the consumers. Essentially, they are trying to turn the internet into a cable TV network"
is horseshit. if anyone honestly downloads copyright infringed materials and tells themself they're making a bold social statement or empowering anyone but themselves they're mentally ill.
hopefully what they have shown the studios is that there's a huge market of people wanting product immediately with decent pipeline delivery in their net connections. this will hopefully lead to competition in online vendors.
i could be wrong.