All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012

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it always was
even when they tried to stop you taping your favourite song from the radio it was about the money
did you know that just to play a song on radio 1 the beeb pays the distributor something like £150, of which the vast majority goes to the record company. It might be more now. Let alone what it is on MTV (probably why they don't have music on there anymore)

they consider it cheaper to maintain the infrastructure that they have and bring in these half arsed methods to fix the problem rather than look at what the little people are doing and change the infrastructure
but the little companies have to innovate to succeed

look at blockbuster, in direct competition with netflix and lovefilm it's had to, very recently, go online, but rather than turn around and say it's failure to thrive (recently amended by going online) was being outmoded it blamed it on videopiracy and the rapid turn around of films to network tv. bluntly put it was the pirates and skytv and upped their prices
it wasn't, it's much easier to use a service like lovefilm or netflix because you are guaranteed the film you want without having to go to the rain or rushing it back the next day
even if netflix or lovefilm were bloomin useless (they're mostly okay) blockbuster wasn't willing to make the changes it needed to to compete until it had to
I can go back further and give more and more examples
on one hand it's not the money, it's that they have a system that worked, at some point, and they don't want to change it
in their heads change=loss of profit and that's what terrifies them

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tv is even worse
and for those of us who need to get boxsets the problem is we can wait the three years it takes for the program to come over here, run and then be released or we can dl it for free and then buy the boxset when it comes out

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here's one thing that bugs me, whilst i remember
if the american tv channels opened up their iplayers and whatnot to international viewers, even at a small charge, I'd happily play it to watch the programs
I would stream direct from them, even if it was limited to a series by series basis (ie you could pay lifetime for project runway or something)
but they missed that trick entirely.

Often this piracy is not motivated by greed or money or whatever on our parts, it's inaccessibility, if I can't watch get something some other way I will dl it, I am agorophobic, it's very difficult for me to get to the cinema but if they offered me a one off stream from their website for a couple of dollars I'd pay it
Sky do this about the same time a film comes out on video and I've ordered from them before, it's cheaper than the video library
just as i pay lovefilm (this is a service i did pay for until i started getting it free with my bank account) but it sucks for foreign or old movies. I went looking for The philadelphia story yesterday and couldn't find it.
so, should they blame me for finding a version of their product I can't access another way?
look at bands like Dir En Grey, they have huge fanbases all over the world thanks to illegally distributed music - because we couldn't get their music any other way,
seriously - missing a huge trick here