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You'll pay for it and watch their ads. It's happened twice before, once with cable TV and again with satellite radio.
by mishmash 17y ago
You'll pay for it and watch their ads. It's happened twice before, once with cable TV and again with satellite radio.
- unalone 17y agoPiracy was never so easy with TV and radio. Once my grandmother knows how to torrent her shows, they've lost.
- mishmash 17y agoGrandma better hurry, with big content writing the next wave of international copyright policy, mainstream piracy of TV and movies will be dead in a couple of years. That, or, she better read up on Tor. :)
- unalone 17y agoWe have yet to see the outcome of the current copyright conflict. I think there's a point we're nearing soon where technology makes tracking impossible.
- swolchok 17y agoOnly if technology also makes paying unnecessary. Open WiFi didn't happen because it makes the owner of the access point appear liable; IMO the only way we're going to get around this sort of effect is to build One Big Mesh, which doesn't look likely to happen soon.
- unalone 17y agoIt's too expensive to hunt down everybody involved. The world isn't able to go after millions of people at once. The more people use it, the harder it is to track.