The solution is to offer a lot more for a competitive price. Remove all barriers to user adoption, for instance, region-based airing (why would we wait 'till a

The solution is to offer a lot more for a competitive price. Remove all barriers to user adoption, for instance, region-based airing (why would we wait 'till a show airs in the UK?), cable subscription (why would a user buy cable when they can download?), DRM (if we can get an MKV we can play anywhere, why get a shitty DRM'd file that only plays on verified TVs), spend a few ££ making OSS applications that download episodes automatically (or make streaming really good). Basically, make a product that can actually compete with the solutions that piracy offers, from a technical and experience perspective, then price it at what people are prepared to pay. Or you will die. I'd be happy to trade in subscriptions to Usenet et all if there was something even several times the price of it if I knew my money was going to the authors (and even the middlemen that get it to happen, providing they are actually providing something good as opposed to being greedy and backwards). The old business model doesn't work.