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Originally Posted by Hugh
If most piracy is due to lack of availability, how come so many people (including some on this forum) download programmes from the US which are shown in the UK a few days later?
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It's easier. They come in a handy format ready for my media centre and thanks to RSS feeds download automatically and area ready when I get home from work. If I wait for them to be shown here I have to program the PVR, then strip out to skip the annoying ads.
It's all just degrees. I never watch ads because I find them insulting and utterly banal. If the media companies had their way your armchair would strap you in every time an ad break came on and force your eyes open. After all ads are their revenue stream so getting up to make a cut of tea is stealing money from them.
Somehow TV seems to be surviving the piracy, PVR and tea-making onslaught. Avengers just broke the record for most money taken on the opening weekend. Adele just passed Michael Jackson's Bad for album sales. If anything you could conclude that piracy seems to increase revenues.