Internet killed the video star (again)
June 2nd, 2009 | by admin |Speaking of Internet piracy, local anti-piracy lobbies here in Portugal, blame the Internet, for everything and anything bad, that happened to the entertainment and software industries, in the last decade.
The latest episode seems to be the alarming rate, that an obsolete business called “video rental” is imploding.
Meanwhile the major triple-play ISPs have invested a pile of cash in Video-on-Demand (VoD), at very attractive prices for the consumer.
These two facts can’t be connected…or can they?
One has a lot to think about, when the most expensive titles in VoD costs less than the cheapest movie ticket. And the titles are practically simultaneous released, both to the VoD and the DVD rental markets.
So, where does the piracy fits in here?