Investor's Business Daily: Hollywood Reeling From Illegal Movie, TV Downloads

Another nail in the coffin for the idea of a continued 'scarcity valuation'. Sooner or later we are heading towards a flat rate system - everyone uses everyone pays, or rather, everyone's use gets paid for. I think advertising2.0 will solve this problem: the first level of my media consumption will be paid for by synchronized, meaningful, non-interruptive advertising, and by sponsorship opt-ins. stand by. Investor's Business Daily: Hollywood Reeling From Illegal Movie, TV Downloads. "P2P (peer-to-peer) video only accounts for about 10% of file swapping right now, but it's growing at triple-digit rates," said Eric Garland, founder of Big Champagne, a Web tracking research firm."More and more people are getting their entertainment online without paying for it," Garland said. "P2P is more popular than ever before."

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[Kimmo]

I totally agree. P2P gives, if we overlook the copyright issues, the consumers the best available media experience available.
Every now and then I discover a TV –series that I like and want to follow. Lately I’ve been addicted to Lost, Shark, and Heroes. And when I am addicted to something I want it all, and I want it now, immediately. So, instead of following the local networks “one episode a week” rules, I just download the lot from the net with BitTorrent, and watch the shows almost simultaneously as they are originally aired in USA. Lost, for example is somewhere in the middle of season 2 in Sweden and Finland. USA is seeing season 3 chapter 17 tomorrow, and so am I. Why should I wait? Read more about the subject from http://digitalrevolution2pointzero.blogspot.com/2007/03/push-vs-pull-real-life-experiment.html