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- apothekari, on 11/02/2009, -2/+56Netflix on the 360 has had a huge impact on how much people download shows and movies, among folks I have talked to.
When people see the ability to painlessly, easily, get what they want to watch for a reasonable hassle free price & delivery system, it ***** works.
People are tired of paying either $10.00 a month for local channels and nothing else or $54.99 a month for a ton of crappy channels no one watches {religious channels, infomercial/shopping}.
Hey Hollywood morons!, Hulu and Last FM and Netflix prove, if you build a reasonable market model folks will come in droves.
No one wants to pay for DRM'ed till it doesn't work overpriced garbage, especially in this economy. - inactive, on 11/03/2009, -4/+43HAHAH ***** YOU RIAA!
- jwolcott, on 11/03/2009, -1/+32They cannot kill that which hath no head.
- forgeuk, on 11/03/2009, -1/+23Well....yeah. Thats how it works.
Remember Napster? Long drawn out legal case which eventually shuts them down..Meanwhile 10 other napster-like sites pop up!
Even after the whole Pirate bay legal nonsense, its still up and running, and thanks to the publicity, is even more popular than before, well done Legal system!
Keep fighting against piracy RIAA/MPAA et al. You're doing a great job to make it more popular.
*Thinks about putting torrent links on my site to boost waning site visitors and Ad Revenue* :-) - scyphozoa, on 11/03/2009, -2/+22hey digital media industry, 1990 called, they want their business model back.
seriously, pirate as much as you can in an effort to accelerate these outdated business models being updated. I don't mind watching commercials on internet tv, so figure out how to generate funds while making your product more accessible than bittorent - walgman, on 11/03/2009, -1/+17If they go back to analogue we will digitise it.
- maximo309, on 11/03/2009, -1/+16I miss demonoid :'(
- ryanonfire, on 11/03/2009, -0/+13in the butt!
- PCMichiana, on 11/02/2009, -1/+12I umm.. am shocked!.. shocked I tell you!
- Iceman21, on 11/03/2009, -0/+10Wait, what?
Are there people that actually think that if the pirate bay went down there would be no more torrents?...lol
These idiots seem to think they can *defeat* piracy by taking out the most defiant website, and seem to be worked into a frenzy by its continued survival.
Here's a few facts for you idiots to digest at the riaa.
#Piracy as you so lovingly named, will NEVER go away no matter how many websites you take out or people you litigate, as long as the internet is still around people will share files.
#The pirate bay is just another website, they are popular because they are carrying a righteous flag and giving you the finger, removing them completely will achieve nothing and make martyrs of them, the day they actually go down will probably be marked by thousands of people seeding in unison. - citizensARREST, on 11/03/2009, -0/+10what what?
- Rhendal, on 11/03/2009, -0/+9"Told ya so" is such a fitting comment for this article.
- iheartbakon, on 11/03/2009, -0/+8"Uh it says most the sites are full of malware."
Sounds like McAfee is scamming to sell anti-virus software. - ThatEvilGuy, on 11/03/2009, -0/+8If you build it, they will come.
- iheartbakon, on 11/03/2009, -1/+8And copy it.
- patasenko89, on 11/03/2009, -1/+8Who would have thought that? .. Sarcasm is the only possible comment.
- greevar, on 11/03/2009, -0/+7They don't have to get infected to scan it...
- tgc1, on 11/03/2009, -0/+7In the butt... I said what what, In the butt.
- Cerialthriller, on 11/03/2009, -1/+7wow who would have that that large scale attention to the fact that you can get free movies, music, and software on the internet would encourage a spike in usage?
- kassiu5, on 11/03/2009, -1/+7Holy webs, batman, they are unstopable...The pirate bay was my prefered but was not the only, as in his time was napster or some server on emule that downloaded everything that i wanted , people either by ambition of some profit or just to have a place to share will create options and i think that trying to stop this is be pointless.
RIAA and those companies really need to change their focus if in some way thay want to protect their costumers and themselves. - acknotSW, on 11/03/2009, -0/+6Hmm, I never got any malware from anything I've ever torrented. Any torrent site worth a ***** has a solid community with plenty of people willing to comment on the quality of content and tools to report infections.
- Nlewis4, on 11/03/2009, -1/+6hooray for private trackers !!!
- danimal317, on 11/03/2009, -0/+5I have gigabites upon gigabites of music and I just bought my first album in over a decade. It was a friend of mine and it was an indie album she just put out. ***** the RIAA.
- darkane, on 11/03/2009, -1/+6McAfee's effectiveness against viruses has decreased by 88% in the past ten years. See, McAfee, I can pull random and made up numbers out of my ass, too.
- opticwind, on 11/03/2009, -0/+5Slightly misleading but still impressive. Piracy has not tripled, just the amount of *new* sites per month.
- doomestic, on 11/03/2009, -1/+6I see they learned nothing from the Torrent Spy fiasco.
- wild, on 11/03/2009, -0/+5I know. The industry's war on illegal downloads has tripled the amount of seeders I see on the average torrent and helped broaden the niche titles available, making it easier than ever to download files to my machine.
Thanks RIAA!!!! - Taiyoryu, on 11/03/2009, -0/+4Seems more like a hydra. Cut off one head, two replace it.
- Fhwqhgads, on 11/03/2009, -0/+4You know, somehow, "I told you so" just doesn't quite say it.
-Will Smith in I, Robot - javaroast, on 11/03/2009, -0/+4The MPAA and RIAA and all the rest of the A's that the music labels and movie studios keep advertising for piracy. How much publicity did they give The Pirate Bay and more importantly torrenting?
- thizzlebot, on 11/03/2009, -0/+4I wanna punch every mother ***** that has created maleware.
***** you, and get a life. - JimmyDThing, on 11/03/2009, -0/+4I just canceled my cable plan in favor of a Netflix account. I agree, totally worth it. Way less and you get to watch what you want instead of dealing with crap that's on because you're bored.
I just wish they'd bring Netflix streaming to PS3. - Runningflame570, on 11/03/2009, -1/+5"Some observers expected piracy to abate after the torrent site The Pirate Bay lost a legal battle in Sweden."
Clearly those "Some" didn't have a lick of sense between them. Non-commercial copyright infringement is around because the market is failing to deliver on market demands (easier, non-DRMed access to movies) and you will never stop it unless you fully meet that market demand.
It didn't work for alcohol and it hasn't worked for marajuana, heroine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, or ecstasy so it sure as hell won't for something as generally innocuous and easy to do as non-commercial copyright infringement. Suck a tailpipe MAFIAA, you're always going to fail. - notfred, on 11/03/2009, -1/+5The eminent death of Pirate Bay encouraged many other to take up the challenge.
Plus, they gave away the source code! - Cyberdropping, on 11/03/2009, -1/+4All the piracy sites put together, pale in comparison to McAffee and their overpriced, cumbersome, POS "suite".
- eljitto, on 11/03/2009, -1/+4They are. its been anounced
- acknotSW, on 11/03/2009, -1/+4I don't think the anti piracy war is so much about stopping piracy as it is about trying to stop innovative new distribution models. Models that put an end to CD and DVD sales would do far more damage to the big music labels and big movie studios then all the piracy that has ever taken place since the first video and audio cassette recorders combined. At least that’s how they would see it, personally I think they would make a ***** load more money if they dropped their prices to $5 for a DRM free movie download and 5 to 10 cents per song download, but I digress…..
If movie and music downloads become the normal mode for content distribution then that also opens the door for a lot of smaller players, who used to be blocked by the high initial costs of CD/DVD production and distribution, to enter the game. If the amount of available content explodes, as it's likely to do over the next few years, then the cost of all content will come down.
If the RIAA can get badly worded legislation passed in an effort to stop copyrighted p2p file sharing, it could limit more legitimate uses of that technology in the future.
Yes, I know it already it is being used legitimately for things like Linux distribution, but right now it’s main use is for copyright infringement. - Bulletbillx, on 11/03/2009, -0/+3I really wish there was ala carte for cable. As well as more awesome delivery systems like netflix, hulu, last.fm, and pandora. As well as steam and direct2drive for pc games.
- theoccupation, on 11/03/2009, -2/+5It started with newgroups, then Napster, Audiogalaxy, Bearshare, Limewire and then Torrents. Each time people took a collective sigh thinking as each died, it would be the end of this.
And each time something took it's place, and it's been more than 10 years now. And we are still going strong.
What we all know is what they know, but don't want to deal with:
IF IT IS DIGITIZED, IT CAN BE COPIED (EASILY), IF IT CAN BE COPIED IT CAN BE PIRATED.
The only way the RIAA will win is if they go back to analog. - ghostborg, on 11/03/2009, -1/+4It has tripled because people feel like they have to get stuff before they take the Internet away.
Really, how does McAfee know it has tripled. Do they track everyone. Maybe its quadrupled or cut in half.
The number of sites pointing to the same trackers does not equal triple .
Now that I think of it the article is crap. - acknotSW, on 11/03/2009, -1/+4And freely distribute it!
- PhillAholic, on 11/03/2009, -0/+3I can't justify listening to a soldier boy cd....ever.
- PhillAholic, on 11/03/2009, -0/+3For the time being you need to order a streaming disc, but it will be integrated into the XMB sometime next year. Better than nothing I suppose. Go to the Instantly to your TV and click on the PS3 and it should set you up to get a disc in the mail.
- PhillAholic, on 11/03/2009, -0/+3If it can be heard, it can be recorded.
- JimmyDThing, on 11/03/2009, -0/+3Nice! Thanks guys.
- black27696, on 11/03/2009, -0/+3Yeah, but it's easier to protect against all the rest by using a vm.
- MMoneta, on 11/03/2009, -0/+2Could it be that the goal of the content industries is simply to amass global political power? That's actually the real result of this. While it looks like they are losing, they are getting dozens of laws that give them control - and the use of paramilitary as an enforcement arm.
- crimsonhedgehog, on 11/03/2009, -1/+3Streisand effect's a bitch ain't it?
- Kevin108, on 11/03/2009, -0/+2FTA: "Malware creators typically hide viruses and other bad stuff in pirated blockbuster movies."
I have never, ever seen an AVI file with a virus or embedded malware. - black27696, on 11/03/2009, -1/+3Owned.
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