Personally, I'm not much into movies, and besides that, I don't have a fast enough connection to share them. But I do know that there a lot of DivX 😉 traders out there.
The movie industry also knows this but they don't seem to care. According to this article on Upside.com they don't fear to be Napster-ized.
The studios also have technical advantages. |
Because a movie file takes up about 100 times more space on a computer hard drive than a music file, movie files are much more awkward to trade online; even over a broadband Internet connection, a feature-length movie can easily take four hours to download, often more. This gives the studios time to plan, build and monetize an online movie distribution system before young hackers do that on their own, sans the money part.
It also doesn't hurt that the primarily vehicle for getting a movie inside a computer, the digital video disc, is scrambled, unlike the recoding industry's ubiquitous compact disc. That means movie files must be cracked open before they can be shared, so it is much harder to upload films to online file-sharing services than it is to upload songs.
Well I doubt if they should be happy to not be Napster-ized as I don't think Napster has been so bad for the record industry.
Read more in the article over here.
Source: Upside.com
