I totally love how the media is all pissed off that everybody is downloading their stuff for free but that they still don’t manage to make profit out of it. Enough research has been done into this and shows that people don’t mind a commercial now and then.

Some channels already provide online content with some advertisement which is great. Some even have HD Streaming which is awesome. But most have some annoying flash player which tells me that “This content isn’t available for your country” and this is where it goes wrong! The whole reason for downloading is that people are too lazy to go to a shop and aren’t willing to wait another second to see the show. People can’t even be bother to download illegally in advance because internet is so fast right now that it’s downloaded in a matter of minutes.

Please provide content yourself and insert commercials into them (just like on tv so you should know how that works already I guess) and f*ck off with country limitations. I know that it’s mainly because patent/copyright differences that you are so annoying but it’s the WORLD WIDE web, so don’t bother lobbying and investing in preventing downloads because it will still happen. Invest in a better framework and fix global copyright (which could be done in contracts with the owners I guess). Or provide some global “shop” where all channels can upload content (other then iTunes because they will want to do the subscriptions for you after you invented a working system and will ask extra money).

Of course this system would only apply to series but that’s why commercials are perfect for them. It’s tv but on demand and without extra hardware. No hardware means a lot less costs so it could work right? I mean it can’t be worse than illegal downloads :) Even google tv and other services are making it even easier.

I think that copyright isn’t really the problem since that’s more for ripping off somebody else his/her work and taking credit for it. I have never in my life seen a peer to peer site taking credit for a movie or series (or other digital product what-so-ever) it’s just that companies seem to fail in reaching people fast enough and making a profit out of it.

Thought: Why not just upload your stuff onto P2P networks with your commercials in them. Companies pay you to show their commercial to people. It’s been like that for years and depended a lot on the number of visitors (which was some random guess because there isn’t a proper way of counting the number of people watching). With p2p you can exactly track the number of “watchers”. So how is that different from TV now (except for the global factor)? Do content owners really care about copyright when they still make money?

People aren’t as evil as the media seems to think. People are still willing to pay but it seems weird that non profit illegal sites seems to do a better job than highly profittable businesses. So please make content world wide and see your profit grow even faster.

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Don’t really know why I typed this, and the text is just some loosy coupled thinking pattern without any scientific backup, but it seems to me that the whole point of copyright is just being used to make downloaders feel guilty. I think that less whining and better world wide services would fix the problem (of making money) quite easily.