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Posted by FatKat on 08/11/06 20:16
Brian Henderson wrote:
> On 10 Aug 2006 12:42:06 -0700, "FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> wrote:
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> >That's only half the problem - they'll never be able to crack the
> >piracy problem as long as there's a free alternative, and P2P is simply
> >too attractive to ignore no matter how well the "sales model" suits
> >current technology
>
> No, they just need to make the products worth more to buy than to
> waste time downloading.
Aren't pirated and purchased downloaded the same way? I mean,
legalities aside, how could purchased be all that superior to
downloaded.
> I don't download theatrical movies. I could,
> easily, the day they go into theaters. I used to, in fact. Now, I
> know that I can buy them on DVD in 2 months for less than $15 so it
> just isn't worth my time and bandwidth to waste downloading a bad
> quality 700mb movie. I've got better things to do.
The thing is, that I'd agree if downloading actually took anyt time
that could be spent elsewhere - only it doesn't. All I have to do is
log-on to a peer-share system and look for a file that I want to
download, tyen click on what I've found. It does take a while for the
download to start, let alone complete, but none of that time requires
that I do anything. Doing that, I've managed to download a number of
fairly good quality movies (bigger than 700mb) - though much of what I
get are actually TV shows which are good even when half as big. In any
event, it's not an issue of efficiency because the download process is
almost entirely automatic.
> Certainly there
> will always be people who are going to download rather than purchase,
> but there isn't a damn thing anyone can do that's going to change
> that.
Couldn't agree more.
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