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There's another factor that the article doesn't mention explicitly: DVRs erode some of the benefits of pirating TV shows. People pirate TV shows (that are ava

by amalcon 18y ago

There's another factor that the article doesn't mention explicitly: DVRs erode some of the benefits of pirating TV shows. People pirate TV shows (that are available on air where they live) largely because they want to watch them when they want, they want to be able to pause when they need to, and they don't want to sit through five minute blocks of the same advertisements they've seen three times already in the program. I suspect Hulu exists because someone noticed this and wanted to erode more of said benefits.

rythie 18y ago
Essentially their approach is to make something good enough that is legal to prevent the illegal method taking hold. The music industry could have done with getting that 10 years ago.
- blhack 18y ago
  The music industry is doing a pretty good job of that right now. It has gotten to the point, for me, that I wouldn't even know where to go to bootleg music anymore. With things like imeem or pandora, I don't need to. In fact, there was an album I wanted a week or so ago; I had to ask one of my little sisters what was the current tool that people were using to get music (she is in high school). Not wanting to jump through hoops (the website she linked me to was basically a front-end of ? intitle:index.of on google, I fucking loathe peerguardian and didn't feel like renewing my usenet subscription), I just bought the album on iTunes, ran it through qtfairuse (you'll need to downgrade to itunes V6 to do it) and called it good. They really are starting to figure it out. If you want an example, go to whitelabel.net. It is a tool for DJs to freely download new tracks (and sometimes albums) before they hit store shelves. There are no intrusive sign-up proceedures, just a username/password form, and a download page. That said, I believe that the RIAA is going to be going away very soon (the arm of it that it suing people, not th arm of it that regulates audio standards...kindof like the IEEE). The "temple" studio model is all but dead. The cost of entry into the music production world has gotten to a point that the small, studio next to your favorite bar (if you're in tempe az, you know what I'm talking about) is cranking out music that is on par with the stuff that the megacorp is.

by amalcon 18y ago

rythie 18y ago

Essentially their approach is to make something good enough that is legal to prevent the illegal method taking hold. The music industry could have done with getting that 10 years ago.

blhack 18y ago
The music industry is doing a pretty good job of that right now. It has gotten to the point, for me, that I wouldn't even know where to go to bootleg music anymore. With things like imeem or pandora, I don't need to. In fact, there was an album I wanted a week or so ago; I had to ask one of my little sisters what was the current tool that people were using to get music (she is in high school). Not wanting to jump through hoops (the website she linked me to was basically a front-end of ? intitle:index.of on google, I fucking loathe peerguardian and didn't feel like renewing my usenet subscription), I just bought the album on iTunes, ran it through qtfairuse (you'll need to downgrade to itunes V6 to do it) and called it good. They really are starting to figure it out. If you want an example, go to whitelabel.net. It is a tool for DJs to freely download new tracks (and sometimes albums) before they hit store shelves. There are no intrusive sign-up proceedures, just a username/password form, and a download page. That said, I believe that the RIAA is going to be going away very soon (the arm of it that it suing people, not th arm of it that regulates audio standards...kindof like the IEEE). The "temple" studio model is all but dead. The cost of entry into the music production world has gotten to a point that the small, studio next to your favorite bar (if you're in tempe az, you know what I'm talking about) is cranking out music that is on par with the stuff that the megacorp is.