Article: Forget SOPA: Copyright owners must build a better BitTorrent

[temisturk]

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[duke0102]

The charts show Peak, I'm curious as to what the figures would be based on an average day rather than when all the kids get home and boot up there torrents.
just had a look at that Netflix and it looks pretty cool, I imagine my crappy internet connection would make it less enjoyable though.

[MikeB]

That's a very valid point.

Apple managed to do just that with itunes. Prior to that people used to use p2p software like emule, kazaa and a few other services, these services were great for users because it was so much more convenient to get music this way rather than going to the store to buy cds [of course, piracy was an issue too, but I'm referring specifically for the ease of access].

iTunes came along, and changed all that, kazaa and emule had their problems, rare songs were hard to find, mislabelled songs were common, and so were badly hacked remixes that confused users, itunes allowed you to download music from Apple for very cheap, and easily. You didn't even need a computer! What's more all the songs you bought from itunes have album artwork, proper id3 [or whatever it's called] tags, so it was well organised.

DRM is still annoying though for more advanced users who want to freedom to store their music on their home network servers or used other players that are non apple branded (both hardware and software). But for the everyday casual consumer, iTunes made it 10 time easier to buy music legally than to pirate it.

The movie industry has been slow to catch up to this, they need to push services like netflix, netflix currently has movies that are way to outdated. I suspect the movie industry prefers to sell dvds because they can mark them up higher and make more money from them.