crumas2 on 09 January 2008
| Nintendownsmii said: Isn't the industry putting the cart before the horse? I mean music downloads really started getting pushed by the industry AFTER pirating music started gaining popularity. Pirating movies do not seem to be taking off. Maybe the industry is trying to prevent what happened to the record labels from ever happening in movies. But I think that by making people realize they can download movies online people are much more likely to realize that they can find it for free online. |
Actually, movie piracy online via BitTorrent is a growing problem. Some people have fairly fast internet connections (6-12 Mb/sec), and some people with lower-speed connections are willing to wait a few hours to get a movie for free.
I believe the MPAA watched the music-industry piracy unfold and decided not to wait to get in front of online distribution. But it's still a lot of data for most internet connections, so I'm thinking downloading movies for pay won't catch on until typical bandwidth is around 56 Mb/sec... basically something like FIOS.
