If anyone follows the whole piracy/ Copyright saga, you will find that the corporate powers that be in the entertainment industry have finally learnt one or 2 things.
I googled heroes online and found that you can also watch the episodes online now. If not for the stubborn online TV show posters on sites like tv-links.com who kept on posting links to tv shows even after they were taken down, we would have still been stuck with waiting 2 years to be able to get the season DVD when the season is over. the network giant learnt that the consumer is not neccessarily controlled by bar charts and pie charts. If the conditions you present to them are not satisfactory the consumer will leave your controlled environmnet(governed by demand and supply) and will go into the black market to get what they want. I say this because I wanted to buy my aunt an ER season DVD as a wedding gift because she always records it. I went to HMV to find that ER season DVD's were released about 4 seasons later( I could have just gone and downloaded the seasons I wanted online I chose to buy them and these guys were telling me to wait for 4 years). While I noticed they still have the practice on the ER DVD's it was good to see on the heroes website the season 2 DVD an blue ray disc are currently up for sale.
So in essence some lessons have been learnt and if we did not have the new generation of peopel who constantly challenge the norm. We will be stuck with these entertainment giants and their oppressive marketing strategies. Opressive because their strategies only made you pay for more things in order to get 1 thing.
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