"Also, you need to understand, the limited bandwidth isn't just an ISP being mean, the bandwidth a company has is shared with ALL of it's user based, but currently not everyone is using as much as someone like you. If everyone was downloading Blu-ray ISOs every night, the overall speed the the entire network in the US would slow to a crawl, due to the lack of upgrades needed to keep up with the demand for bandwidth. ISPs right now are panicking because services like Netflix are starting to max out their bandwidth, and the only way to fix that without spending money to upgrade things is to tell people they can't have as much as they want
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Ding ding ding ding, we have a winner. Welcome to the reason so many are so willing to shit all over people like Bell Canada for doing whatever they can to fucking lie about the truth. They blame a lot of things for the problems and they stonewall and in the end, they just want to be greedy and never invest in taking the infrastructure into the future. They just want business as usual ie they spend nothing, you continue to pay them too much for too little and stfu and stop asking for more.
In 2005, maybe it was closer to be more the fault of more people that were just plain downloading too much too illegally. That was then this is now, and frankly most of what I downloaded in 2005 was stale old movies I simply wanted digitally, that I had on crappy vhs and no one wanted to sell me realistically. No one in their right mind wants to pay premium for media that is older than the downloader.
Today though, our entirely legal, entirely legit needs, need every bit as much bandwidth as anything that was ever questionable. Yet, the big corporations would rather sit on their hands, continue making profits, off of old tech and not do anything to change anything. Netflix is frankly not really welcome by the corporations, as it threatens the old way.
I just watched Blockbuster video go down the drain because the old way is really and truly no longer viable. People WILL pick to get their video the easy way over the old way. Yes there are still people that will do it the old way, but the same people will also pick the easy way too. And in most cases, if they make the easy way actually work properly, they might just as easily dump the old way more so. The proof is how in my town, all of the video rental stores are GONE!. There is not one actual video rental store in town now, where before 10 years ago there was several. When Blockbuster closes the doors atr the end of the month, the ONLY choice of this town of 30k will be to buy it in Zellers or a couple of places like Canadian Tire where you might find it on a rack near the cash check out.
All Netflix really needs, is BETTER communications infrastructure to be capable of being made better. It can't use what isn't there.
I can find 5 bucks easily on an almost daily basis. If the source companies ie the movies studios, were to make their WHOLE catalogue available for top quality download for the price of a routine rental, damn right I'd be browsing their libraries and having a field day.
Damn right though that thieves would continue to do what they have been doing since we mastered fire.
Theft is likely one of the oldest human activities, even older than prostitution, because originally men didn't need to ask you eh.
But big corporations simply don't like change.
I say screw the MPAA the RIAA, and Bell Canada, and any major entity that simply won't enter the world I live in.
I'm perfectly willing to look any judge in the face and flat out tell them, I BOUGHT every last bit of data I ever downloaded fair and square regardless of the stupid disclaimers some services try to hide behind. Disclaimers don't mean squat. Bell Canada sells to Teksavvy and Teksavvy sells to me, and I use the power they sold me. In the end, the MPAA and the RIAA and anyone with digital woes, is being ripped off by Bell Canada to name just one. But i'd like to see the MPAA for instance stand a chance for long in a court room with people that have that much money eh. Not the same as dragging grandma Smith into court because she was caught being responsible for things her grandson downloads at her place.
If you look online close enough, the ONLY victories being won by groups like the MPAA and the RIAA is when they find a nobody that can't defend themselves. I for instance watched what happened to Newzbin last year. Not that it did anything. Someone merely added the numeral 2 to the name, and made a complete farce out of the court 'victory'.
Society, ie the corporations ie people like the MPAA, or more close to us here, the anime industry, will only move forward when they pull their heads out of their collective asses.
Anime, one of the few things about the internet that doesn't make me hate the internet.
! Despite popular belief by many uneducated people, digital distribution will never have the bandwidth available in our lifetime so that consumers can get the same quality on disc based solutions via streaming or digital distribution (unless you compare it to DVDs). Despite the advancing technology, the lack of consistent upgrades to the network backbone in the United States, a bottleneck will eventually be hit to slow things down.
Just ask my friend that has a blueray burner and seems quite happy to download blueray anime.
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