Agreed, but I am curious to see how this experiment will play out. I have seen some experiments were people were given FREE food and drink
and a "voluntary donation" option were given. {unsupervised} .... about 8 out of 10 people in this experiment gave some sort of donation. So
there are some people out there that understand that you have to give something to get something. If "piracy" goes on like this, the movie
industry will stop producing and content will not be available to be distributed.
but those people are physically present when they receive what they're asked to donate for. it's a different ball game if it's a few clicks that rips off a huge corporation.
what really needs to be done to wipe out alot of this is streamline the rights and territories situation that screws up how the legit streamers and download places operate. they need to deliver more convenience. it's getting there but it's not enough yet.
some guy in pakistan isn't gonna wait five months for a butchered game of thrones to show up when he get it now from somewhere dodgy.
most people would pay for that. it would take me months to download and sift through the bad files of what i can watch in a couple of days on netflix.
the sooner the content providers realise that they have to adapt to the users the better, because the users will always have the option of bypassing them to get what they want.