(it is broadcast in the US on BBCA)
The reason people download is simple.
Availability.
Effort.
(Price)
(I'd be lying if that wasn't there but it's not as big as the other two)
Most movies becomes downloadable before or just hours after the premi?re, after the cinema release it's in TS quality, (after Russian DVD release it's in DVD with crap audio quality) and after DVD release it's in DVD quality. Globally. There's a lot of fansubbing going on so people who aren't native speakers of a language will still understand it.
So a pirated copy of the film can be on your screen some times months before even the theatrical version comes to your country. so Pirated wins hands down in availability.
The effort to go to a torrent site or use a p2p client or any other of the tools people use to find a copy of whatever it is you wish to see vs pretty much all of the commercial tools available to you is almost always simpler and faster and it comes without DRM restrictions. So less hastle, easier to find what you want. another victory for pirated.
Price. though as I mentioned above a lot of people still pay for or buy content, go to movies etc because if you pay for something you will hopefully be able to get more of the type of content you like. But sometimes the price of an item seems to be way out of proportion to it's actual cost or worth just so old media types can still be competitive. This breeds more cynicism amongst some pirates. But you can't get something for nothing and if no one pays or you don't pay for what you like that content creator might not be able to create as much or as good content as you'd like.
So to sum up. Content creators needs to accept more fluid transfers of their creations. the technology is already here it's just for the right holders to accept that they can't artificially create scarcity by holding their creations back and dishing it out to different areas and different people as they like because we are now global. If it's released in Japan today I will want to see it today.
If it's released in the UK today I will want to see it today too.
This is not just a strange sentiment I hold but I think most of us who download the episodes like to see them now rather than in 5-6 months time when they start to air on our local stations and then in a cut down form.
So we want to be able to watch our favourite TV-shows, listen to our favourite artists, see the latest movie at our leisure from the second it is released to whenever we have the time to enjoy it.
And until they meet that demand we will most likely keep pirating.
The reason people download is simple.
Availability.
Effort.
(Price)
(I'd be lying if that wasn't there but it's not as big as the other two)
Most movies becomes downloadable before or just hours after the premi?re, after the cinema release it's in TS quality, (after Russian DVD release it's in DVD with crap audio quality) and after DVD release it's in DVD quality. Globally. There's a lot of fansubbing going on so people who aren't native speakers of a language will still understand it.
So a pirated copy of the film can be on your screen some times months before even the theatrical version comes to your country. so Pirated wins hands down in availability.
The effort to go to a torrent site or use a p2p client or any other of the tools people use to find a copy of whatever it is you wish to see vs pretty much all of the commercial tools available to you is almost always simpler and faster and it comes without DRM restrictions. So less hastle, easier to find what you want. another victory for pirated.
Price. though as I mentioned above a lot of people still pay for or buy content, go to movies etc because if you pay for something you will hopefully be able to get more of the type of content you like. But sometimes the price of an item seems to be way out of proportion to it's actual cost or worth just so old media types can still be competitive. This breeds more cynicism amongst some pirates. But you can't get something for nothing and if no one pays or you don't pay for what you like that content creator might not be able to create as much or as good content as you'd like.
So to sum up. Content creators needs to accept more fluid transfers of their creations. the technology is already here it's just for the right holders to accept that they can't artificially create scarcity by holding their creations back and dishing it out to different areas and different people as they like because we are now global. If it's released in Japan today I will want to see it today.
If it's released in the UK today I will want to see it today too.
This is not just a strange sentiment I hold but I think most of us who download the episodes like to see them now rather than in 5-6 months time when they start to air on our local stations and then in a cut down form.
So we want to be able to watch our favourite TV-shows, listen to our favourite artists, see the latest movie at our leisure from the second it is released to whenever we have the time to enjoy it.
And until they meet that demand we will most likely keep pirating.