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I’ve re-jigged your article mate, it wasn’t  very easy on the eye!

I tihnk 70% is a good guess, simply because general browsing doesn’t use up a lot of bandwidth these days, but the amount of data movies take up is constantly increasing..  I mean, surely the fact that movies are now available to download in DVD format, (or HD, or Blu-Ray, or insert latest technology here)..  They are constantly getting bigger, thus the percentage of overall bandwidth increasing.   Though this isn’t my point.

Just because 70% of bandwidth is P2P, doesn’t mean that 70% of all internet traffic is illegal and copyrighted material, though I would extimate that about 60% of it is.  If the Corporate Scum, as Will so lovingly refers to them, would get their fingers out and release a viable alternative, I’m sure people would jump on that bandwagon.

ABC have done it by posting certain bits and pieces on Apples iTunes (Lost, Desperate Midwives, etc).but this is for playback on your iPod.  However, this is not really the digital experience people require in this HD-TV age.

This is really not enough though.  its easy enough to target the unofficial technology which is already there,  but there is a vacuum that will always be filled, and if they can’t do it themselves, there will always be a problem.

The article mentions that th eprated TV episodes are stripped of the advertising, which is a headache for the execs.  If ABC would let me download hi-quality episodes of Lost from their website, but I had to endure 10 minutes of targetted ads for the honour, then I’d do it.

Honestly, I would!

Oh, and on a side note, on the Google aquisition of Youtube..  this isn’t really a good example, because Google already had Google Video.  Youtube is more a..  whats the phrase thats being banded around at the moment..  social networking..  thats it,  a social networking tool, and although you can get copywritten material there, that is far from its original purpose.  if anytthing, Google are shooting themselves in the foot, as now all those copyright owners have some big lined pockets in the shape of Google who they can start to aim their lawyers at…

and on the subject of Google,  my adsense earnings are still sat at 0.00$

When I wrote the item, I realised that the YouTube example was a bad one, but I was trying to make a wider point, but thanks for focusing on my inadequcies, short ass …. I dont use the phrase Corporate Scum (CS)lightly, they pay my wages, however, I think the whole Intellactual rights issue is farsical,  what about my rights to leech the system dry, what about freedom of information, I could of recorded the show and then lent the reproduction to whom ever i sought fit, and as long as I am making no financial gains, why should they be able to stop me, I see no difference except the target audience is wider, the CS only ever list the short fallings of filesharing, what about the positives, wider audience increased merchandising, positive Corporate image, I’m sure these are Value Added items which cant be over looked, I dont think I have ever read an article where any of these points are explored. On the Advert point I cant say I have a massive issue with using my FF button, in my opinion being brain washed by adverts is a personal choice, if your stupid enough to endure them then you deserve it (Not you, generally).  
 
P.S Thanks for the Edit, Im a messy sod i know, I’ll try and keep your front end tidier in the future, I know I dont need to worry about your back end, I’m sure you take good care of it just incase ..  =0)

nice reply Will!

"I see no difference except the target audience is wider, the CS only ever list the short fallings of filesharing, what about the positives, wider audience increased merchandising, positive Corporate image"

The difference is control.  They have no control over it once it is released.  which is why DRM came along.  possibly the biggest technological mistake of the 21st century.  Except for those mind control robots with the lasers..   oops,  I’ve said too much.

Three letters boys. DRM. As Jim mentioned its enforces the worst restrictions ever, and if theres one thing we know about human nature its that we want the freedom to swap/view/copy/edit media in any way we see fit. Thats why youtube/digg and peer-to-peer is so strong. The latest Zune jobby from Microsoft is so crippled with DRM that it makes it a big turn off. (im not saying the ipod is any less restrivtive).

With regards to these portable music gizmos, say you buy a song from the i-tunes store and want to copy that choon over to your new zune, you’d think its not too much to ask, right? Why should we be forced to buy the same song twice? Its things like this which drives your 70%.

On the flipside i also dont think its that we dont want to pay for media, its that we want to pay a resonable price. Take the russion website allofmp3 who make a small fortune for selling mp3 at ubelivable prices. (People love a bargin!)

The latest HD-DVD and BlyRay formats require the new HDMI cables which encrypt the data straight from the source media to the tv, but the big execs would ideally love to encrypt the data all the way to your retina if they could.

I knew Waxie would be along to post something beautiful sooner or later.

hahah cheers jim… I will pay you that fiver later-ron