TV industry suffers at hand of filesharing
There’s an interesting article on Guardian website at the moment that looks into how filesharing really does know no boundaries. As soon as a program is first aired, be it in the UK, the US or elsewhere, the filesharing networks can get hold of it and make it available for people to download. This infuriates the TV industry as when the show eventually airs around the world, people have already seen it, leading to lower audience figures and lower DVD sales.
Why is it, then, that major movies can be simultaneously released all over the world, but TV bosses can’t do the same for their shows? Would it be so hard to have the BBC linking up with ABC and linking up with a US network? The TV industry seems even further behind the times than the music industry. You can’t blame the people because they just want to watch the shows, but when they’re made to wait several months, why wouldn’t they download and use filesharing networks? There’s no other way to watch the show.
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