While downloading pirated movies is easier and faster than renting a DVD, downloading pirated movies could be easier and faster, too. It takes a lot of time to

While downloading pirated movies is easier and faster than renting a DVD, downloading pirated movies could be easier and faster, too. It takes a lot of time to find a good torrent and it can take a lot of time to download it, unless it's hot. This means media companies could make the experience much better. I would gladly pay 2€ per movie if I could legally download it from the legal torrent listings of the movie company's video rental site instead of trying out several Pirate Bay hits in parallel. The resulting video would be a simple .avi file that you can view on any player without any DRM involved. If I can't finish the movie right away, I could do that next week. (I already do the same with rental DVDs.) Thanks to torrents, they wouldn't even have to pay much for the upload bandwidth. Some people would keep the copies, some people would even distribute the copies. But this is nothing new, it happens already. However, I wouldn't keep a copy for too long because I don't want to waste time and effort in storing copies of movies that I can redownload for another 2€. It's my guess that most people would fall into this category. It's all about how easy the access to the movies is. If legal access is easier than illegal access, then there may be a thousand Pirate Bays and people will still use the legal source.