North America isn't the world. Both cable shows and paper books have major regional distribution issues. Stuff arrives a half a year later, if we're lucky, or a year or two later, or never, if we're not. ETA: Incidentally, where are most of these torrent sites? Mostly not located in .us. Causation? I dunno, but I think it's an interesting correlation.
The whole argument is really about convenience. I want the content in a convenient format at a convenient time. As it happens, 99% of the time, if I can't get it in a convenient format at a convenient time, I'll just go engage with something else instead, whether that's eBooks, or movies, or music, or whatever.
It isn't that difficult to provide that convenience - and actually be more convenient than torrenting, as well as get paid. The book and video publishers, for some reason, just don't wanna.
Audio publishers seem to have mostly wised up, and are happily rolling in their continuing fat piles of cash.
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ETA: Incidentally, where are most of these torrent sites? Mostly not located in .us. Causation? I dunno, but I think it's an interesting correlation.
The whole argument is really about convenience. I want the content in a convenient format at a convenient time. As it happens, 99% of the time, if I can't get it in a convenient format at a convenient time, I'll just go engage with something else instead, whether that's eBooks, or movies, or music, or whatever.
It isn't that difficult to provide that convenience - and actually be more convenient than torrenting, as well as get paid. The book and video publishers, for some reason, just don't wanna.
Audio publishers seem to have mostly wised up, and are happily rolling in their continuing fat piles of cash.