Newsbytes has a newsposting about movie piracy. Downloading movies is something mostly exclusive to broadband users but seems to become more populair.
The movies industry has also noticed this and will try to find a way to stop this. They will have a bigger problem to stop the new p2p technologies as Gnutella as these don't use a centralized server.
Lee Black, an analyst with Webnoize, a company that monitors digital entertainment industries, said the process of obtaining a copy of a movie at Gnutella or another P2P Web site is shockingly simple. |
"You go to the site and type in a term. People list the movies they have available in their hard drive," Black said. "It does not take long to multiply, like a virus."
"Gnutella is an open source, so any kid with the ability to program can take it and write their own version," said Broes. "Through evolution, it has gotten easier to use. You no longer need to be a hacker to pirate files."
Broes said there are 1 million movies available per day worldwide, with about 600,000 downloaded per day.
Black said Webnoize has not yet done a study to measure the exact number of illegally traded movies.
"It is tough to say how many movies are out there. People still need a broadband connection to download a movie file," he said. "This will become a bigger problem with the proliferation of broadband. Broadband will enable a whole lot of stuff."
After MP3, DivX could be the next big thing on the net. But it will probably not be soon as downloading movies is for most users just a step to far, they will have to wait for hours and hours.
Source: Newsbytes.com
