The modern media industries, which includes music, movies, video, books, magazines, etc., are all trying, rather unsuccessfully, to live with the fact current digital media has pretty much sacrificed content protection for user convenience. For me the 5,000 pound elephant in the room whenever the subject of piracy is discussed is why is it so damn easy to copy "copyrighted" digital content? Because making that digital secure would mean a very unpleasant user experience. Imagine having to enter a 10 digit code into a CD or DVD or blu-ray player every time you wanted to play a disc? Not very convenient. So years ago these industries WILLFULLY chose user friendliness over security and now they are paying a very high price. Too bad for them.
Add to this the fact these industries are in no way trying to solve the problem. For example, the Netflix movie and video streaming model has been an overwhelming success and yet not a week goes by without reading how yet another movie studio is pulling their films from Netflix streaming. The problem is not piracy per say but rather loss of income. The Netflix streaming model solves the "piracy" issue since people who can stream a movie will most likely not bother to download an illegal copy of that movie but the industry does not like the vastly reduced revenues which result from streaming. Basically they have yet to accept streaming revenue versus no revenue, aka piracy. Again too bad for them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95541 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
