DVD-kid wins battle

Finally some fairly good news. It’s amaz­ing how the indus­try con­tin­ues to fight their own cus­tomers over copy­right instead of sup­ply­ing up-to-date dig­i­tal ser­vices. The debate is get­ting still more bor­ing as no progress seems to take place, but in short: Artists and the com­pa­nies behind them should ben­e­fit ecom­i­cally from their work as it is what they do — and we all like to get paid for what we do. So I under­stand why ille­gal copy­ing is a prob­lem. But as in all other busi­nesses, the respon­si­bil­ity to sup­ply their ser­vices in a rea­son­ably man­ner lies on the com­pa­nies them­selves, mean­ing that if they can’t keep up with how peo­ple of the mod­ern world do things, buy music and movies etc. they should start work­ing on it instead of blindly pur­su­ing out­dated ways of mak­ing their money. What if the inven­tor of the wheel had been try­ing to stall the use of it because of dif­fi­cul­ties with how to fig­ure out how to make profit from it? Would any­one have waited even though it could change their world, sav­ing them loads of time? Same thing with dig­i­tal dis­tri­b­u­tion; the tech­nol­ogy is there, the ben­e­fits are enor­mous and — in my opin­ion — it actu­ally offers the indus­try a great oppor­tu­nity to pin­point their sales. But cus­tomers demand this now — not when some hobo record compny feels safe enough to get online.