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ProDigit · 12-19-2011, 04:42 AM

Just to add 2ct to the main thread:
MP3 files have been around since 1995, after which movie trailers, and short movies where freely downloadable on the internet.
Real movies started when D3vx came out (divx 3), about 5 years later.

It's not that movies are behind nowadays. They are about on equal.
The problem is, that a movie has considerably more of art in it, than music (since it contains both, as well as most movies are over one hour, while mp3's are usually shorter than the commercial on your TV).
So there's this kind of 'guilt' still there in the back of someone's mind, when downloading a movie, that may not be there when downloading music illegally.

Second, many sites like the LATE (not early) Napster (anno ~2005), as well as itunes, and other p2p sites, offered paid versions of music (so automatically the non-paid versions where favored by some), while until recently (with the arrival of Netflix Anno ~2008), there where no real online purchases of movies for download; mainly because movies where too large to download on anything but a highband internet connection, and a stable client had to be found; because downloads online (via HTTP) could get interrupted and aborted for that, losing all the data downloaded!

Most people I knew that where illegal downloaders, knew there was going to come a time when the holes would be plugged, and it would no longer be possible to download illegally. So automatically, most became masters of downloading, before laws became in place to destroy that data.

On the other hand, man has figured out that the data saved on harddrives usually corrupts after about 5 years, 10 the most on DVD's.
So, unless they keep backups of backups of backups (which has a huge costprice on the hardware), the data they downloaded will not remain in their possession forever!

In my opinion it has created a devaluation of music, and this generation needs a new song every week, listening to good songs at most upto 6 months (unlike some '60's or '70's rock songs which lasted upto 2 decades in some people's favorites list!)

12-19-2011, 04:42 AM	#17
ProDigit Karmaniac Posts: 2,553 Karma: 11499146 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Miami FL Device: PRS-505, Jetbook, + Mini, +Color, Astak Ez Reader Pro, PPW1, Aura H2O	Just to add 2ct to the main thread: MP3 files have been around since 1995, after which movie trailers, and short movies where freely downloadable on the internet. Real movies started when D3vx came out (divx 3), about 5 years later. It's not that movies are behind nowadays. They are about on equal. The problem is, that a movie has considerably more of art in it, than music (since it contains both, as well as most movies are over one hour, while mp3's are usually shorter than the commercial on your TV). So there's this kind of 'guilt' still there in the back of someone's mind, when downloading a movie, that may not be there when downloading music illegally. Second, many sites like the LATE (not early) Napster (anno ~2005), as well as itunes, and other p2p sites, offered paid versions of music (so automatically the non-paid versions where favored by some), while until recently (with the arrival of Netflix Anno ~2008), there where no real online purchases of movies for download; mainly because movies where too large to download on anything but a highband internet connection, and a stable client had to be found; because downloads online (via HTTP) could get interrupted and aborted for that, losing all the data downloaded! Most people I knew that where illegal downloaders, knew there was going to come a time when the holes would be plugged, and it would no longer be possible to download illegally. So automatically, most became masters of downloading, before laws became in place to destroy that data. On the other hand, man has figured out that the data saved on harddrives usually corrupts after about 5 years, 10 the most on DVD's. So, unless they keep backups of backups of backups (which has a huge costprice on the hardware), the data they downloaded will not remain in their possession forever! In my opinion it has created a devaluation of music, and this generation needs a new song every week, listening to good songs at most upto 6 months (unlike some '60's or '70's rock songs which lasted upto 2 decades in some people's favorites list!) Last edited by ProDigit; 12-19-2011 at 04:48 AM.