It's been a bit quiet lately in the news about the music and movie industry regarding illegal downloading and streaming. Has the ISPs agreement to dole out 3 warnings, but not commit to disconnecting customers, appeased their concerns?
I don't want to start a discussion on the rights and wrongs and disappear down that moral rabbit hole, but I know that the practice is still rife and just about all new movie and music releases are being made easily available.
Has the industry accepted this as an unstoppable inevitability or are they still fighting this? What is the ISPs stance?
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I don't illegally download anything anymore.
There are plenty of excellent inexpensive streaming services.
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What's stupid is that the music industry often contributes to the problem. Recently I wanted a specific rare track - I could only find it legally on iTunes in New Zealand. I would have been more than happy to pay for it, but I was blocked because I'm in the UK. I tried several ways of getting around it but in the end it was too much hassle so I found a free copy and got that. I'll still buy it if I can ever find it on CD, but... WTF? The internet is global, why restrict things like that?
The same is true for making films regionally restricted, or with different release dates - there's no better way of driving otherwise honest users to download illegally.
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I had a brief flirtation with Napster, Limewire et al. but I never got into torrents etc. and it's been years since I last downloaded anything.
If I want to check something out before buying I usually look on YouTube.
Same for streaming services and DVDs.
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Film makers need to move with the times and just realise people want to watch everything at home thesedays as soon as it comes out. The days of going to the cinema are coming to an end. Its not skipping the payment that people want, I think most are happy to pay, its the convenience of watching at home that people want.
For films and TV though, I don't want to buy them, I just want to subscribe to a service, and while I can easily do that in one place for all music, I can't for TV and films. Some are available in one place, some in another, etc. So like with football, I haven't subscribed to Sky Sports for years because of that reason. If I could get most games in one place, it would be much more appealing.
Im pretty sure the studios would love to just pipe the latest release into your house but are being held back by distribution deals for cinemas.