Sunday, December 31st 2006
Video piracy more common than legitimate video downloads
A recent study by retail analysis group NPD, which consisted of putting tracking software on a group of 12,500 volunteers, has found that video piracy is a lot more common than initially thought. Only 2/10 people downloading video got it from a legitimate source such as Apple, and the other 8/10 downloaded from P2P networks. The study also found that 60 percent of video files downloaded from P2P sites were pornographic, 20 percent were television shows and 5 percent were mainstream movie content. There are several good reasons behind the high amount of piracy, however. There is a much larger volume of content available on P2P networks, there are no DRM's to stop someone from converting the video to a different format and/or burning it to DVD, illegal videos are generally of higher quality, and P2P doesn't cost anything.
Source:
ARS Technica
13 Comments on Video piracy more common than legitimate video downloads
So what you are paying for at any pay site isn't really quality, the mediocre bandwidth, the problems with either the player that you HAVE to install (Google Video anyone?), or the DRM.
It is the thought that you won't be one of the
millionsfew of the people getting caught for downloading something that a kid two states over converted on his graphics card and put up on torrent, thus causing alosssupposed loss to the people that made the inferior, harder to use, forced install to slow down your computer thus driving the mainstream consumer to not want to use the internet, shit.I pity the people who will take this, and who use Iturds and the like really feel that all this "upgrading" to get DRM so involved in their lives is going to make things better.
So at that rate I could pay myself $6 a hour to download with better quality off a torrent.
Fucking makes sense to me.
But thats my opinion :)