The power of Piracy!

I enjoy watching Wrestling or to be specific, WWE, as there is no competition today to WWE. It has already taken care of WCW and ECW. I don't think TNA is really up against WWE, at least not till today.

Well, that story some other day, but today, I came to know about a new DVD set from WWE, called "The Greatest Superstars Of Wrestlemania", and wanted to know which matches are put on this DVD. The obvious thing to do is google it, and I did, but only to get torrents for this DVD set. It is only at page#3 of Google search that I found something useful. Maybe my search was not good, as I searched for "WWE The Greatest Superstars Of Wrestlemania" on google.co.in (my default home page). For those who don't know what torrent is, I would just say that its one of the easiest and most widely used medium of piracy today. Someday, I will put up a post on torrents as well, but till then, just Google it if you need more information.

Its not that the Google is not searching for right pages on net, but there are so many torrent site, if you do a search for any popular software or movie, chance are that some of your first page search include a link to torrent. Some pirates may call it power of freedom, but in my opinion, its Power of Piracy! I don't need to provide data or statistics to show how much money is lost due to piracy, just a simple example will do. I was very keen on watching Jodha Akbar, but when I came to know that its 3hour plus movie, I was a bit hesitated to go to theater for the movie. One of my friend gave me a DVD of the movie, it was on 4th day after the movie was released. The DVD was having 1 GB avi file with crystal clear quality of the movie. There were few more movies were available on the DVD, like Taare Jameen Pe, RAMBO 4 etc. All DVD quality, in xvid format. I watched Jodha Akbar at home, and liked the movie. But wished I could have seen it in theater, as the fight sequences and war scene might look much better on big screen. But after watching it for 3+ hour, I did not find it worth watching again on big screen just for the war and fight sequences. So, they (the movie producer) lost a customer. And I am not one, the torrents are making it easier for everyone to access the good quality of movie as soon as there release. So, lets say if 100 people could have watched JA in theater, with piracy, now only 30 people go to see the movie. Rest watch it at home with the help of piracy. So, do you think it will be possible to make big budget movies without getting paid from all viewers? I will let you think and answer this question on your own!

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