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While there is a large black market of people pirating content, it is unclear as to whether that market would be willing to enter the legal market at any price
by dereg 15y ago
While there is a large black market of people pirating content, it is unclear as to whether that market would be willing to enter the legal market at any price point.
Improving the distribution system is not a source of explosive growth, rather, it is I disagree with your assertion that the content industry is requisite for mere survival industry. There's no potential for explosive growth because piracy is an income problem, not an internet problem. Cracking down on file-sharing sites will not solve the problem because the illegal activity merely shifts elsewhere. Improving distribution systems will not solve the problem because free is still cheaper than not-free.
- moe 15y agoImproving distribution systems will not solve the problem because free is still cheaper than not-free. I disagree. Yes, there are many people who pirate because they can't or don't want to pay. But I believe there's an equally large group of "casual pirates" who only do it for content that they can't (easily) get otherwise at all. This latter group may be relatively small in the US because you have a whole range of online content providers (NetFlix et al). But it is definitely huge in europe and other countries where said services are not available or only in crippled form.