Thread: will torrents one day take the place of cable tv?

when i log on to ti and read the bt news i just feel scared and worried that one day something bad could happen to me for my bt habbit. however it does not stop me from pursuing what i love nor does it stop the millions of bt users. what i dont understand is why if this is the most rapidly growing form of media transfer is why it is not worked out to be a legal way of obtaining media.

i say make all media free to download and have the isp's and hardware company's pay out to the entertainment industry. cable companys pay out to the entertainment industry right? they dont get their programming for free. so why is it that the isp's sit back and rake in billions and pay out to noone? this should be the new movement in entertainment. instead of blaming the pirates why not blame the flawed system? the reason bt users use bt is because we dont pay directly for our files right? but we pay for the internet and we pay for our hardware. why are the companys that provide these things not responsible for making sure that what is available online is compensated for to the media provider? i have not used cable tv in 5 years. i would way rather download what i want and play it back at my discretion. not wait for it to come on cable at a certain time and have to be available at that time. computers are in most homes now and more and more every day. internet is used for everything. this system does not work. we the pirates are here because we like our media easy and under our control. make it all free and legal and see how many people who dont own computers go out and buy one and sign up for web.



who is with me on this? and who sees problems with my theory? could it work?

there is little chance it will come in to force. As u have pointed out cable tv earns from ads which is the source of income.
As far as net is concerned forcing a user to view the add is almost impossible ad companies dnt spend much on internet ad campaigns. Plus isp will nt agree to pay for the copyrighted material n it will be pretty cumbersome job to monitor who downloads wat n how much does he owe to the data creator.
U dnt have to worry bout gettin caught coz as long as net is there for our rescue everything continues to be free.

but the net is laden with ads as well. tg for ad blockers. i know it wont go down like this but this is how it should be. in the same way that millions of people push for marijuana legalization yet good hardworking citizens are put in jail every day for possesion. the world is just ran all backwards. every day we lose another freedom. and every day we are falling more into chaos. web censorship is high in the ranks for these law makers. whos to say the web will be there for us tomorrow. they may take it away as they have done with so many other freedoms.

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how many people per year begin using bt? more and more. when the growth exceeds a certain point something must occur. either ridiculous laws will prevail or the isp's and producers must come to an agreement.

it will never happen but netflix might be a good candicate.

As securecrt said it won't happen. To replace TV you'd need some some drop dead simple, dumbed down replacement for the masses. Torrents aren't rocket science, but it's still too complicated for the average Dick & Jane.

Probably not torrents, but I think streaming video is the future. The general public will hop on new technologies that offer clear and easy advantages over what they already use. And the idea of just streaming whatever they want to watch to their tv (from an easily navigated central location) is more attractive than waiting for a cable showing or renting a DVD/Blu Ray. Though cable, as we know it, is not going anywhere soon - especially for live broadcasts like news and sports.

I highly doubt that cable tv will bite the dust anytime soon or in the foreseeable future. I find it lamentable, however, that the issue under consideration is merely how will information be processed and delivered. In the final analysis the technological framework hardly matters one whit. Why waste time focusing on what form of technology will be the vehicle of further human psychological enslavement?

Seems an infinitely more critical issue is the future of human psychological "development" ("misdevelopment" is a far more accurate and descriptive term). I.e., how will the human species survive the massive disempowerment and brutal dumbing down that the growing and fierce addiction to sucking the teat of toxic and junk media eventuates on a daily, nay, hourly basis? A contemporary blizzard of deeply-distorted movies, tv series, popular music and games has created legions of virtual, only slightly-human, mostly dehumanized, individuals who have zero conception of what a healthy, relational, life consists of.

~TAO

>Implying most people still pay for cable tv.
I stopped paying for tv in 2006. All commercials and no programming makes Jack a dull boy.

They already took it, at my home :) I'm without a tv 4 years already and don't miss it at all :)