Sony to blame tube sites too?

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by tony404

if you think it doesnt effect things and think its not training a whole generation that paying for recorded entertainment is dumb.You are really kidding yourself.

The problem is old schoolers like status quo. Newspapers HATED the invention of radio.

Somehow, somewhere, someone will eventually solve the equation, and they're going to be insanely wealthy. The equation is the balance of speed, convenience, price and accessibility that allows the users to get what they want and have the producers still make a reasonable profit.

I do agree that things like tube sites impede progress on this. If a user can get something that is what they want or close to it, very easily for free, then why look anywhere else? But why do tubes exist? Because someone is making money off of them.

So let's peel that onion back a bit further.

For a tube site to be profitable, it means someone is willing to pay enough for those eyeballs to cover the bandwidth and then some. Well, for someone to be willing to pay for it, that means they have a way of convincing those users who are seeing a ton of free content that they have something that is desirable enough to make them pause their free viewing and reach in their wallet and pull out their card.

Think about that one for a bit...