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Oh and just for the record, “It’s a sad day when a minor European nation decides to kow-tow to Hollywood and join China and Iran in blocking citizens from reading the views of others and accessing a search engine.”

Wow… I think it’s a sad day when anyone considers that the UK is a “minor European nation”… founding member of the League of Nations which went on to become the United Nations and one of the few countries that stood up to the Nazi’s all the way through regardless of the immense human and financial cost.

Oh and we currently have the 6th largest GDP in the world, are one of only 18 countries in the world that currently hold a triple-A international credit rating (yes, that club doesn’t include the USA), we are ranked 7th in the world for the number of world heritage sites, at one point our empire spanned a quarter of the world’s land mass and all from a tiny island smaller than most U.S. states and 78th on the land mass world ranking… minor my ass. Travel much?

Wouldn’t it be a good idea for the ‘media industry’ to wake up to the 21st century get on-board and embrace ‘free’ file-sharing sites as a very cost effective means for them to distribute their own content? By simply throwing their weight around playing ‘big brother’ to restrict ISP with court orders only makes users more determined to undermine them (note the relatively easy workarounds commented in the article).

By taking control back, they can drive out the “piracy” element of file-sharing, and put them back in driving seat of distributing quality and quantity media.

With a little creative thinking there must be plenty of revenue streams open for possible financial exploitation. How about advertising through distributed content during download, adding additional files in the torrent, or on the distributor websites themselves. Cinemas, DVDs content, search & social network websites have been exploiting this for years. Like most, I hate advertising, but if it’s a means for this industry to quit with their draconian, narrow-minded approach, then why not?

Another revenue stream could be having other ‘media’ type websites paying to advertise ‘teaser’ trailers sending traffic to the download site?

Or, build a closer relationship with ‘free’ distribution of artists’ material with merchandising sold. There surely must be a market link between distribution and exposure with merchandise sales as a result?

Or for studios to pay studios for quantity of downloads on whichever sites become most popular over time?

These are just a couple of ideas off the top of my head, and I’ll leave the viability open to comment. My point is there’s surely plenty of alternative revenue streams to selling DVDs.
All that’s needed is a little thinking outside-the-box.

Wouldn’t it be a good idea for the ‘media industry’ to wake up to the 21st century get on-board and embrace ‘free’ file-sharing sites as a very cost effective means for them to distribute their own content? By simply throwing their weight around playing ‘big brother’ to restrict ISP with court orders only makes users more determined to undermine them (note the relatively easy workarounds commented in the article).

By taking control back, they can drive out the “piracy” element of file-sharing, and put them back in driving seat of distributing quality and quantity media.

With a little creative thinking there must be plenty of revenue streams open for possible financial exploitation. How about advertising through distributed content during download, adding additional files in the torrent, or on the distributor websites themselves. Cinemas, DVDs content, search & social network websites have been exploiting this for years. Like most, I hate advertising, but if it’s a means for this industry to quit with their draconian, narrow-minded approach, then why not?

Another revenue stream could be having other ‘media’ type websites paying to advertise ‘teaser’ trailers sending traffic to the download site?

Or, build a closer relationship with ‘free’ distribution of artists’ material with merchandising sold. There surely must be a market link between distribution and exposure with merchandise sales as a result?

Or for studios to pay studios for quantity of downloads on whichever sites become most popular over time?

These are just a couple of ideas off the top of my head, and I’ll leave the viability open to comment. My point is there’s surely plenty of alternative revenue streams to selling DVDs.
All that’s needed is a little thinking outside-the-box.

Wouldn’t it be a good idea for the ‘media industry’ to wake up to the 21st century get on-board and embrace ‘free’ file-sharing sites as a very cost effective means for them to distribute their own content? By simply throwing their weight around playing ‘big brother’ to restrict ISP with court orders only makes users more determined to undermine them (note the relatively easy workarounds commented in the article).

By taking control back, they can drive out the “piracy” element of file-sharing, and put them back in driving seat of distributing quality and quantity media.

With a little creative thinking there must be plenty of revenue streams open for possible financial exploitation. How about advertising through distributed content during download, adding additional files in the torrent, or on the distributor websites themselves. Cinemas, DVDs content, search & social network websites have been exploiting this for years. Like most, I hate advertising, but if it’s a means for this industry to quit with their draconian, narrow-minded approach, then why not?

Another revenue stream could be having other ‘media’ type websites paying to advertise ‘teaser’ trailers sending traffic to the download site?

Or, build a closer relationship with ‘free’ distribution of artists’ material with merchandising sold. There surely must be a market link between distribution and exposure with merchandise sales as a result?

Or for studios to pay studios for quantity of downloads on whichever sites become most popular over time?

These are just a couple of ideas off the top of my head, and I’ll leave the viability open to comment. My point is there’s surely plenty of alternative revenue streams to selling DVDs.
All that’s needed is a little thinking outside-the-box.