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I just had a small vision when I read this article.

In two years time Voddler (or something like it) will be big for movies, Spotify will be big for music and people will stop purchasing things entirely.

The "Pirate movement" will see this as progress and smart people going around the old geezers in charge, because we don't have to pay outrageous amounts of money for a piece of plastic we don't even want.

The media industry will call it a success in their anti-piracy harshness and will cite cases like this as the reason for the new ways to crop up.

Both parties will think they're right, and in the end the only thing that has changed is the distribution-system.

The 2 year timescale is probably off, but i'm pretty sure everything will end with those idiots saying "It's a good thing we put kids in jail because otherwise we wouldn't live in the wonderful world we do today."




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