With SOPA and PIPA (both of which are rather poorly written Bills open to abuse) being in the news I thought I'd say something about piracy. You see, I wonder if when the history of entertainment is written that account will tackle the fact that piracy has improved our experience of things.
Here's my point: I remember how long it took for a film to come out on video when I was a child. Take a Hollywood film, Jurassic Park for instance. The film would be released in America, a couple of months down the line it would be released in the UK after we all knew what was going to happen from reviews, then it'd be on television on some bank holiday a year or so later and ONLY THEN would there be a video.
I bought the DVD of Sherlock Series Two one week after the final episode aired. Films take a couple of months to come out on DVD to deny pirates their chance. DVD extras are a way of making the professional product more desirable than someone's digital copy TIVOed off telly. Special Editions offer a different experience from the cinema edition or a cinema viewing taped from the back row. Free shipping from Amazon removes one of the barriers of inconvenience between you and the products in their warehouses. Sketchbook and creator commentaries in trade paperbacks offer a similar enhanced reading experience to DVD extras.
It’s interesting how crime adapts to business and business adapts to crime.
However, it has to be said that I don't understand the assertion on the FACT adverts you get on films that digital piracy supports organised crime and terrorism. Unless O2 and T-Mobile and other internet service providers have a paramilitary wing I don't know about.
Here's my point: I remember how long it took for a film to come out on video when I was a child. Take a Hollywood film, Jurassic Park for instance. The film would be released in America, a couple of months down the line it would be released in the UK after we all knew what was going to happen from reviews, then it'd be on television on some bank holiday a year or so later and ONLY THEN would there be a video.
I bought the DVD of Sherlock Series Two one week after the final episode aired. Films take a couple of months to come out on DVD to deny pirates their chance. DVD extras are a way of making the professional product more desirable than someone's digital copy TIVOed off telly. Special Editions offer a different experience from the cinema edition or a cinema viewing taped from the back row. Free shipping from Amazon removes one of the barriers of inconvenience between you and the products in their warehouses. Sketchbook and creator commentaries in trade paperbacks offer a similar enhanced reading experience to DVD extras.
It’s interesting how crime adapts to business and business adapts to crime.
However, it has to be said that I don't understand the assertion on the FACT adverts you get on films that digital piracy supports organised crime and terrorism. Unless O2 and T-Mobile and other internet service providers have a paramilitary wing I don't know about.
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