Even more piracy news today, Yahoo has an article about an upcoming problem for the American Entertainment Industry, sharing of movies.
While broadband connections are becoming more and more mainstream and technology evolves this will probably be an issue as big as MP3. The movie industry has learned from the music industry and is really trying to not get the movie sharing as big as MP3 sharing:
Already, pirated movies are available for download from Napster descendants Morpheus and KaZaA. They also are plentiful in binary newsgroups, where on one day this week one could download such titles as "I Am Sam," recently released in U.S. theaters. |
GartnerG2 analyst Behrens said her firm forecast that more than 60 percent of U.S. TV homes will have digital cable or digital satellite by 2006, compared with 28 percent in 2001. In addition, broadband Internet connections (chiefly cable modem and DSL) will be used by 38 percent of U.S. homes by 2006, compared with about 12 percent in 2001.
"That kind of penetration will make video downloads much more realistic for millions of consumers," Behrens said. "If they download via a box that can also forward content to other users, which the most advanced digital video recorders (DVRs) can, the potential for piracy is multiplied."
Personally I'm not into movies, and if I watch a movie I go to the movie theatre and certainly not watch it on my 15" PC screen. But I know it's pretty populair to watch a DivX and they are also widely available on filesharing networks.
I think the movie industry is right and this is the next big problem for them. But for most people downloading a 600MB movies is still a little too much...
Source: Yahoo.com
