Look over here to Britain to see how this has negatively affected us. Our major ISPs have had a court order to block the Pirate Bay website and proxies providing access towards it. As much as TPB is a haven for copyright infringement, a lot of people legitimately used the website to host legitimate torrents.
One of the big answers towards priacy is this:
1. Make things globally available. No geographical blocking or restrictions of content. Companies like Netflix and Hulu are guilty as sin of this, but blame the copyright holders, not them.
2. Make things available at a reasonable price. A lot of digital downloads for music, television series and movies is currently overpriced. If their price was cut even by a fraction (say... 20 - 30%), then a lot more people would consider purchasing.
3. Make things available without intrusive DRM. We've seen intrusive DRM in games like SimCity and Diablo III damage the PR of their respective publishers EA and Activision-Blizzard.
Look over here to Britain to see how this has negatively affected us. Our major ISPs have had a court order to block the Pirate Bay website and proxies providing access towards it. As much as TPB is a haven for copyright infringement, a lot of people legitimately used the website to host legitimate torrents.
One of the big answers towards priacy is this:
1. Make things globally available. No geographical blocking or restrictions of content. Companies like Netflix and Hulu are guilty as sin of this, but blame the copyright holders, not them.
2. Make things available at a reasonable price. A lot of digital downloads for music, television series and movies is currently overpriced. If their price was cut even by a fraction (say... 20 - 30%), then a lot more people would consider purchasing.
3. Make things available without intrusive DRM. We've seen intrusive DRM in games like SimCity and Diablo III damage the PR of their respective publishers EA and Activision-Blizzard.