Well, now we’re getting somewhere in the war against piracy. Analysts at NPD have cracked the code to a pirates mind-set and discovered that people rarely “rip” or remove video from Digital Video Discs and instead “share” files on services like “Napstore” and “BitDonkey,” two “files sharing services.”
“There is an urban myth or feeling,” said Russ Crupnick, an NPD senior analyst, “that people are using services such as Netflix to borrow and burn. We’re not seeing any evidence of that.”
NPD isn’t sure why this is a case, but I suspect that by the time a “talkie” is on D.V.D. it is so damn old that no sane pirate would want it. Just a possibilty.
Report: DVD ripping less a threat than file sharing [News.com.com]
BitDonkey is my favorite.
my room mate (we’ll call him Bob) has rented so many movies from blockbuster and netflix just to rip them and return. Bob doesn’t even watch them right away, he just saves them for a rainy day. But Bob literally has hundreds. So I guess this article is true.
I however (we’ll call me Steve…not Mark), am old fashion and still use BitDonkey and waterMelons
bob is an outlier
haha…yeah…