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Movie Studios Fear a Piracy Surge From Google Fiber

posted by n1 on Friday January 02 2015, @05:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the corporate-fear-of-change dept.

Bill Dimm writes with an article from TorrentFreak:

Earlier this week we received a leaked presentation covering the results of a Google Fiber survey conducted on behalf of Warner Bros and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The research was conducted in 2012 and aimed to get a baseline of the piracy levels, so changes can be measured after the rollout.

[...] Drawing on an MPAA formula that counts all pirated views as losses the report notes that it may cost Hollywood over a billion dollars per year. That’s a rather impressive increase of 58% compared to current piracy levels. The research also finds a link between piracy and broadband speeds, which is another reason for Hollywood not to like Google’s Internet service.

[...] What’s most striking from the above approach is the way the studios frame Google Fiber as a piracy threat, instead of looking at the opportunities it offers.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 03 2015, @07:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 03 2015, @07:00AM (#131225)

    You don't have to wait for your torrent to arrive with torrent streaming. It downloads the first pieces of a video file first, and plays in a media player capable of streaming from file like VLC. Well-seeded popular torrents (thousands of seeds) are usually the type of show/movie you would find on Netflix and would download fast on 10 mbps. With a gigabit connection, no matter how you choose to torrent the file, it will likely be completely done in under a minute.

    Storage is cheap unless you are SSD only. You can delete the file after you're done. You can reuse the same 10-50 GB to download a batch of content and delete it as you watch it. H.265 is *starting* to cut some file sizes in half and can play on machines that are a few years old.