{"id":547,"date":"2012-05-02T09:23:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T08:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-34-242-84-40.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com\/?p=547"},"modified":"2012-05-02T09:23:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T08:23:47","slug":"why-the-entertainment-industry-needs-to-emulate-the-pirate-bay-not-ban-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/why-the-entertainment-industry-needs-to-emulate-the-pirate-bay-not-ban-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the entertainment industry needs to emulate The Pirate Bay, not ban it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watch movies at home, and at the cinema. A lot. Most of the scheduled stuff on TV is crap, so I will watch 3 to 4 films each week.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to obtaining the film itself, I have a few choices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buy the DVD &#8211; but that&#8217;s expensive for a film that I might only watch once, and it&#8217;s not instant (I&#8217;d have to go out and buy it, or order it online and wait for delivery)<\/li>\n<li>Wait for it to be shown on TV, but that&#8217;s going to be a long, long time for most decent new releases.<\/li>\n<li>Rent it from itunes &#8211; not only is that expensive, but it might not be in their library, I only get it for a limited time so I can&#8217;t spread viewing it over a few days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Movies without adverts.<\/p>\n<p>Movies that play on almost any device.<\/p>\n<p>Just about any film ever made, regardless of which studio made it.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneous worldwide availability.<\/p>\n<p>Excellent quality, and there&#8217;s usually a warning or two if not.<\/p>\n<p>No buffering issues as with streaming services.<\/p>\n<p>Whole TV series wrapped up in a single download.<\/p>\n<p>Unlimited download speed for most content.<\/p>\n<p>Music that&#8217;s not available on Spotify iTunes etc.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s probably more, but I can&#8217;t think of them right now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d gladly pay for that kind of service if the &#8220;properly licensed digital services&#8221; could do it. However, they&#8217;re too busy trying to protect their OLD business model to listen to what people actually want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watch movies at home, and at the cinema. A lot. Most of the scheduled stuff on TV is crap, so I will watch 3 to 4 films each week. When it comes to obtaining the film itself, I have a few choices: Buy the DVD &#8211; but that&#8217;s expensive for a film that I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/why-the-entertainment-industry-needs-to-emulate-the-pirate-bay-not-ban-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why the entertainment industry needs to emulate The Pirate Bay, not ban it.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}