When I started this post I called it “Can the MPAA and the RIAA sink the Pirate’s Ship?”. Then I wrote a whole lot more than I anticipated.
As some of you may have noticed I pay attention to the piracy industry and what happens to those individuals and companies (on both sides of the conflict). I really feel that these ‘rock stars of rebellion’ are breaking the old ideas of how media is distributed and consumed. I also believe that if the Movie and Music industry don’t move FASTER and implement BETTER DELIVERY and BETTER PRICES they will be a relic of the past and the Indie content producers and NetCasters will replace them with better delivery, consumption, and prices.
The problem is they are spending to much time and money licking their wounds and trying to prevent what is happening; instead of changing their methods. They need a new media distribution model to distribute their content. Maybe something like a combination of BitTorrent & iTunes [or Window Media Player] so that every one using it can get a copy of the media faster. No, leave out the DRM and bring the prices into an acceptable range. Yeah that is what I said an acceptable range.
Seriously, they need to flatten their corporate structures so that they don’t have to charge to much for content. 3 to 5 $ for a ‘cd’ and 4 or 5 $ for a movie is acceptable. They also need to get off this staggered release. I will admit that I would pay up to 20$ for a ‘premier’ digital copy of a movie; that means that I can download it during the day and start watching it around 6PM. This also means I own the movie, yeah it is mine. But hey, lets say I have a release party with 10 people and I pay for the movie, we watch it and then 4 of them go home and buy it too. Maybe 6 months to a year later the movie gets dropped to half price and a year later half again.
I don’t know! All I know is that it will change. iTunes is making headway; but it is not enough. Even though it lets me rip my CDs without DRM [w00t! w00t!]. Handbrake lets me digitize my favorite DVDs and store them on an external hard drive for viewing. You just gotta love digital content!!!
I digress, I came across this article on Portfolio.com written by Daniel Roth, ‘The Pirates Can’t Be Stopped‘. This is what started this article off. It is a good read and it covers the attack made by a young man on Media Defender.
read it here.
iron wil
