Damn, I just tried pulling up http://www.watch-movies.net on my computer and Optimum blocked it. I guess the movie companies are giving the Internet Service Providers a hard time. It's getting to be like the Chinese Internet here in the United States of America where the dollar rules, and people lose.

Quoting Radnor: "while their prices are kept high enough, using a traditional distributing chain, piracy or other forms of it, will continue."

Exactly. Some time ago I tried to source several fairly rare cartoon series' from my childhood. I was willing to pay up to $100 for each series' seasons. Several of the series' could not be purchased anywhere; the others, were asking ridiculously unjustified prices.

So, I turned to the pirate bay for help. The problem I found with trying to pirate things is that there's so much time required to get any form of half decent variant of what you're looking for. You get malware from visiting most of the sites, and most of the torrents aren't seeded and/or take weeks to download. I downloaded one series to find it was dubbed in Spanish; after spending 4 weeks and 8.4 gig of data, I was well pissed.

If the content was available online, for a reasonable price, and able to be delivered through something like iTunes, I would be on it in a heartbeat. However, the prices being asked for downloadable media is just not value for money. It's extortion. I will consume vast amounts of media when I feel I'm getting value for money. I simply won't consume if I feel I'm being fleeced.

Hollywood execs are still missing the point. We consumers want more options in viewing in todays age. Movie theaters are so mismanaged and the experience of being in a theater is worse than at most homes due to irritating people in the theaters that go unchecked by theater management/security.

The movies themselves are just fine, its the movie going experience that is broken. When they finally get around to building a new business model more people might be lees inclined to find their own way to get to the media.

You surely meant http://www.watch-movies.net

..that great live streaming sites exist too, atleast atdhe.net for sports and some tv.It has amazing picture quality for Nhl hockey games.

This is hardly new.

Tvlinks.co.uk was quite big in his days, had some movies. The quality sucked ? Well, it was free.

Also worked with the same modus operandi. So nothing new here. It is only new to the MAFIAA guys.

Music, Gaming, Film industry must change the way they sell and distribute their products. Everybody is a customer, they also just need to lower their prices. Because while their prices are kept high enough, using a traditional distributing chain, piracy or other forms of it, will continue.

Now lets hope RIA and other "institutions" like it will take their head out of their asses soon enough.