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Then they aren't a legal alternative.

• calinet6 14y ago
  Neither is a "seed box" or private trackers, or anything else that the parent post mentioned. No one in this thread is talking about legal alternatives, because they don't exist. The illegal alternatives are a an insanely better experience, and people are paying for them to boot. There is a huge opportunity for someone to come in and create the Spotify of video, but it probably won't happen soon because it will be near impossible to work with content providers to create it. Plus there's not a huge incentive, since even Spotify is being sucked dry with licensing fees. Let's face it: the current state of the industry is not capable of providing a high quality user experience to the consumer (I'm almost 100% convinced). They're all about forcing the consumer to use whatever creates the most money, and if you amass enough power, sure, you can do that. Effectively, they are exercising their legal rights to hold back the quality of the end-user experience. Is it right? It is a moral grey area. They have the right to protect their content and the creators of that content, to ensure they are compensated fairly. But at the same time, it is holding back progress. In short: if you want the best personal digital entertainment experience, a legal alternative at any cost is not available. There are simply too many providers and too many limitations and services. Furthermore, the quality of illegal methods (which will not be named; the secret ones are indeed the best) are extremely high as to be almost the best possible outcome. It is a very complicated situation. "Legal alternative" is synonymous with "worse" right now, but I do hope that improves.