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tmc8080
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megabytes & megabucks

its really the video content holders which want a bigger piece of the action.. but until they reform the way they do business-- not much will change. millions of consumers are forced to buy channels like ESPN in a basic cable subscription. consumers with licensed physical media are through obsolescence forced to re-buy new versions of content they already PAID for..

many consumers buy rental and digital content only to be hassled by digital rights management or copy protections. and these are PAYING $$ CUSTTOMERS... the ones you generally don't want to piss off.

the game changer will soon be that internet access goes from an average of 50 megabits to 1000 megabits. you will also see hard drives which can warehouse thousands of large video files (over the capacities of DOZENS of terabytes). Seagate-- a HDD maker already has an 8tb hard drive on the market.. and plans to make hard drives running into the dozens of terabytes in the coming years. this is probably scaring the poop out of content owners. Today you can stuff a million+ mp3 audio files on a few 4, 6 and 8tb hard drives. Lets also not count out the ONLINE storage lockers which can warehouse a virtually limitless array of content.

if the content companies were willing to make a fair $ instead of going after everyone to downloads content for free there would be plenty of money to go around-- from ISP access charges to convenient warehouses of content by subscription model and limited walled gardens which are more convenient for the consumer. plus the ad revenue model still has legs.