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The execs do know. They just don't have options that will make as much money for their shareholders. So instead they fight a slow rearguard action. Their time
by msg 16y ago
The execs do know. They just don't have options that will make as much money for their shareholders. So instead they fight a slow rearguard action.
Their time is passing. But for how long? Times X billion dollars per year.
- cookiecaper 16y agoIf they were smart this all would have been moot a long time ago. They would start a subscription-based private tracker, add a URL handler so that things opened in the torrent program automatically, and everything would have been fine and nice and great and they'd be making much more money. Instead of doing this and making pirate methods obscure, they insist on wasting everyone's time and money by implementing DRM schemes that cause incompatibilities, only to be broken a short while later, and suing people, which ultimately just gives the pirate sources more time to grow and more media exposure, especially when they sue and/or force prosecution of these pirate sources directly instead of just pursuing average filesharers, a la The Pirate Bay.