Piracy and Beyond

netribution: Torrents, piracy and beyond: will the film industry survive? "I’ll say that again. 2.5% of music downloaded on the internet is paid for. The other 97.5% is ‘illegal’. Shift this across to the world of film and you may get a glimpse of quite how things are changing, and why some people in the industry are - to put it mildly - concerned.

'So the guys who started this business all cheated somebody to get there, and now they're being cheated, perhaps, by all these crazy, geeky people all over the internet. I must say, my anguish level is not great.'

What we may be witnessing is a massive shift in the way the media industry operates from a relationship between creative people and consumers that is mediated by large multinational business, to one which is mediated as transparently as possible by technology, by the web. In other words, producers communicating with and selling directly to audiences."