You can use a VPN but those can be slow. Otherwise you're unlikely to get called out on it; I think our ISPs understand that their business is more important than Hollywood's.
Anyone noticed decline in p2p piracy?
mininova dead, isohunt closed, less people seeding stuff every day, despite improved internet connections over the globe. And the worst part - less and less people are archiving old good stuff. If you need some older movie/game/etc, like from 1990, then your chances are thinning every day.
The market adapted; it's more of a hassle to torrent now than it is to use Netflix (at least for Joe Average.) If they do something like this for gaming, piracy will
really plummet.
I guess you are right. But netflix is not available in all countries, and does not accept some payment options. And gaming? I thought steam = game netflix (kinda). Or you mean renting/sharing games? That would be crazy.
My original point of view is that culture is changing. We can only depend on people who keep tons of dvd's and blu-rays stacked in their cupboards. I personally tried to throw out as much of data I previously was keeping, and now I'm somewhat sorry.
EDIT: Oh, and GoodOldGames website -another gamenetflix, with awesome prices i guess
EDIT2: netflix is a monthly subscription service? I thought it's an on demand service - pay per certain viewing.
Oh, yes; you pay a flat fee of 7.50 a month (I think...) and you can watch all the movies you want. Hulu might be a little cheaper, but it works the same way, except it has ads so I don't like it much. I was going to mention Steam but the more I thought on it, the more I figured it was more of an online store than a monthly rental service; still, there's a plethora of indie games on Steam that are well within the normal budget, so I tend not to pirate those games, especially not while being an indie dev
But the blu-ray/DVD thing is probably another factor that led to Netflix, or perhaps what sparked torrenting movies to start with (aside from insane box office prices), since it became a little bit much to buy a DVD for $15 just to watch it in a blue moon, you know?
But perhaps you bring up another good point; I'm positive there are still services around which you can buy digital copies of movies, but it's a pain to store all those movies, and then there's one-time rental services which are also rip-offs since you get the movie for a week and still had to pay quite a bit, it was still easier to torrent and store the movie, if only temporary.
What's really crazy is, I recall a service recently which allowed you to play popular games remotely, on really high-end PCs, and it transferred your mouse and keyboard movements over the web and sent back an image stream from the remote PC; it was a really neat idea, but if you don't have a fast connection, the delay is just too much to bear.
