The Pirate Bay trial just growing pains, look back at 10 years of piracy

abc.net.au

7 points·ALee··5 comments

He doesn't mention the overly restrictive DRM that most digital purchases come with, mostly movies and TV shows (music is getting better).

It's simply more convenient for people to pirate material that they can use hassle-free - no software compatibility hassles, bizarre hardware restrictions or archaic region coding.

As soon as someone decides to make their catalog of movies available, DRM-free, they'll reap the profits from the average consumer who just wants something simple.

Piracy comes with its own set of hassles. What's the video quality? What language(s) does it have? How fast can you download it? How many seeds and other peers are there? What's your upload bandwidth? Does your firewall allow others to connect to you?

The amazing thing about DRM is that it manages to be even less convenient. People would pay for a simple just-download-the-high-quality-file system.

Quality is largely based upon how slow you want to download, what hits the stores and is somewhat popular tends to get up online.

Private trackers have most of the others solved as they tend to (always?) revolve around a seed to download ratio system where friends of mine have no problems filling their 100mbit connections.

I agree with your points though, a centralized no-hassle store has benefits over having to sort through public trackers it would be more convenient. Unless pirates start getting really good at social filtering.

Private trackers are nice, but their selection tends to be kind of limited, which is why I've never used one for more than a week or so.

Wishful thinking. Until it becomes at least as hard to copy digital content as it is to, say, shoplift a DVD, the so called "high profile piracy" will rage on.

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