Yes, they can. Yes, they have to. No, they won’t; they’ll just keep lobbying and suing and hoping that throwing their money around magically makes them relevant again. They’re too stupid to do anything else, even when they admit it won’t work.

Piracy should not offer a better user experience, yet most of the time, it’s way better than the DRM’d crap they try to sell. And they wonder why people pirate.

Still, it’s somewhat sinister to see such sane comments from those specific individuals.

Want to know how i know that? Because i just shared the idea.

I want my stuff as a 1080 digital download as a minimum, and able to be moved around various PC’s, laptops, Asus/WDTV media players and hard drives easily. I no longer want a pile of CD’s/DVD’s/BluRays filling up my lounge room, when at a touch of a button I can access what ever I want off a 2 TB hard drive and skip all the advertising and rubbish at the start of a DVD.

I also do not want to pay a premium every time a new format comes out to replace my entire collection. I did that from tape to CD and VHS to DVD and I refuse to do it to convert to BluRay. If I have previously bought something in a digital format, then I should be able to upgrade to a higher def version for a minimal price.

Until they come to that same conclusion, then they will not regain the majority of people that download back to a paying system. But the big studios have become greedy after they saw the potential profits from everyone buying the back catalogues from Tape and VHS and switching to CD/DVD and they expect the money train to continue into BluRay and then again digital downloads.

While Sony was battling Toshiba for control of the next movie format for years, which they won due to DRM and therefore Studio support, the consumer simply bypassed both of them to digital downloads.

ffs…. 12 year old kids share music between their mobile phones.. NO license..

P2P../ filesharing is culture now..