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Originally Posted by Alex Pallas
good point but do you really see masses of people transferring 50 gb of material across the world wide interweb? take it from a person who has done alot of p2p-ing (mostly for live bootlegs), the bit rates people who download like to deal with are rediculously small. It would take a rediculous amount of time to download 50 gb, unless you're on t3.
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Let me ask you a question: Back in the days, when DVD was introduced, what kind of internet connection did you have? I think I had a 56k modem...or maybe even a 28k, nobody would even dream about downloading a 4Gb DVD file or even a 700mb divx.
But today these sorts of file sizes are no problem at all with broadband internet, I guess you see where I'm heading. And a HD movie can also be compressed like a DVD.
Actually I'm not interested in portable playback of HD movies or DVDs, but eventhough I wouldn't like to see the possiblities of honest customers shrinked in this manner.
Here in Switzerland (Germany also if I'm not mistaken) we have to pay a fee for every blank Cd (~0.06 Swiss francs) or DVD (~0.45.-) we buy. Why? Because we could burn our legally owned CDs for personal use!! So we have to pay again for a licence we already paid, the funniest part, when I burn Photos or make a backup I also pay fees for the music industry! How absurd is that? They even want us to pay these sort of fees for Flash-Mp3 players and hard disc recorders, soon we'll maybe have to pay a fee for a new PC...
Sorry if I went a little off-topic.