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0 pointsjpollock12y ago0 comments

Actually, there are substantial secondary benefits to going legal. Giving back to the creator, guaranteed quality, avoiding legal entanglements, cheaper traffic, higher speeds, etc. All things that aren't typically offered by pirated content providers.

The problem is that legal sources have issues around trying to controlling when/where/how the content is viewed, which might be the majority of the value in the media (over and above the content itself).

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toomuchtodo12y ago

> Giving back to the creator

Does the creator truly win out when the content is paid for? I'm using music as an example; not sure how its panning out on the Netflix/video side.

> guaranteed quality

Can you always reliably get 1080p from Netflix? Because you can from TPB.

> avoiding legal entanglements

Which is now a moot point considering the number of judges who have indicated that an IP address in a log can't be tied to a specific end user.

> cheaper traffic, higher speeds

Again, as with quality, I think this depends on your ISP. You'll only get frustrated so many times with Netflix rendition switching or buffering before you'll fire up your bittorrent client, let it suck down 10-20 episodes, and watch at your leisure.

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