plus, one thing that is great which many bands are doing now is that you can pay as much as you want for their product. IE, Dead Heart Bloom is a band from New York. they have all albums available on the site for free download, but you can buy them through paypal and you choose what you want to pay. I love that idea.
imagine if we had the ability of doign that with movies? i for one think it would be awesome deal. you can buy a download for your own set price, the price you feel the quality of the material reflects.
there will always be people downloading and not paying anything due to the fact buying things such as dvds, cds and even books is so expensive. the more downloading goes on the higher the prices for these things get. it should be the other way arround if they expect people to buy from a store.
anyway, this is how i feel. we need better quality materials, better quality outpu by bands and studios, and lower prices. if we are given the choice of paying as much as we feel the material deserves more will buy instead of free downloads.
--Previous Message--
: All week people have been submitting variations on the news that a
: study commissioned by NBC Universal, and promoted by the MPAA,
: shows that 24% of web traffic involves "piracy." If
: you look through the actual methodology, done by research firm
: Envisional, there are all sorts of problems with it, including
: the fact that they seem to bootstrap these findings based on
: research done by others. Another problem is that the source
: Envisional used, the PublicBT tracker, does not include many of
: the legal BitTorrent uses, meaning that they may have
: significantly undercounted legal usage.
:
: Of course, the MPAA is using this data to suggest that piracy is
: a big problem, and governments need to step in and help (of
: course). Yet... if you actually look at the data, as Rob
: Pegoraro at the Washington Post did, you get a very different
: picture. It really suggests that all that movie piracy is the
: industry's own damn fault for not making legitimate content
: available online. This is not news of course. One of the main
: reasons why people access unauthorized copies is because they
: can't get legitimate copies. The movie industry is so infatuated
: with "windows" that it doesn't seem to realize that
: restricting how people can access their movies only drives more
: and more people to unauthorized means.
:
: Pegoraro compares the different stats in the report and notes
: that there's a very clear indication that when legal
: alternatives are available, the amount of unauthorized file
: sharing drops considerably. So if the MPAA's goal is to reduce
: file sharing, then the answer is to start offering legitimate
: services. Pegoraro even asked the director of the study about
: this, and the guy agreed:
:
: "I think the availability of legit content in the US may be
: one reason why infringing use is lower in the country than
: elsewhere worldwide: the US has Hulu, Netflix, Amazon VOD, Vudu,
: streaming content from the tv networks, etc. This level of
: availability just can't be found elsewhere. Further, the content
: in the greatest demand online is that which originates from the
: US - television shows and films in particular - which often take
: a while before they appear in other countries."
:
: So, the real lesson of this study is that the large amount of
: unauthorized access in movies online is the MPAA and NBC
: Universal's own damn fault for failing to adapt and to offer
: legitimate services to the market when they want it. Thanks for
: sharing that information with the world...
:
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