Does Faster Internet Access Lure Piracy? - petersonserch1970

Hollywood's piracy schtick might be getting a brief old. Not but does the film industry keep to make less-than-impressive relationships with its consultation by suing the bloomers off alleged file-sharers, now it's worried that faster Cyberspace download speeds bequeath enable piracy.

The Movie Association of America (MPAA)'s concern is Google Fibre, Google's high-speed fiber-optic broadband that the company is currently deploying in Sunflower State City.

Google has already laid kill much 100 miles of Fiber in Kansas Urban center, which was chosen last twelvemonth atomic number 3 the first city to house Google's experimental 1-gigabit-per-second network. Google plans to connect the first homes to its Vulcanized fiber network in the side by side few months, Google Fiber representative Jenna Wandres told Bloomberg Businessweek.

According to Google, its Fibre test network of about 850 homes in Palo Low already offers download speeds of 922 megabits per second, so Kansas City residents should be really, really excited. The common Internet speed in the United States hovers around 5 mbps. Google plans to offer its Fiber network at competitive prices, as well.

So why is Hollywood concerned? Well, because faster download speeds tail end alone mean nonpareil thing — pirates will be able to download message even faster. With Google Fiber's purported download speeds, pirates will be able to download an entire Videodisk's worth of content in fewer than unrivaled minute.

MPAA spokesperson Leslie Howard Stainer Gantman told Bloomberg that although Google Fiber "could be a swell opportunity for consumers whose access to creative content is often hampered by lentissimo speeds," we should bet to the lesson of Republic of Korea, in which "the home amusement marketplace was decimated past digital plagiarisation," which was enabled by fast Internet.

Of course, TechDirt points out that South Korea is a sorry example — because the Peninsula music industry "thrives on high-speed Net," and information technology "grew into an economic powerhouse while the country had just about of the highest and earliest broadband insight rates (and digital buccaneering rates) in the populace."

Gantman too spoke to Ars Technica, saying, "We want to reenforce that higher speeds could be a great chance for consumers, and that's the bottom line." But it's non really the bottom line, because Gantman went on to say that "There are problems that can, in terms of [an] increase of digital piracy, go with that, but we are hopeful that efforts can Be made…to address digital piracy."

Don't get me wrong — faster Net download speeds could enable piracy. But with that system of logic we may likewise just shut down the Net — because, hey, no Cyberspace, atomic number 102 online piracy! Er…yeah.

Maybe it's just me, only I feel like the movie diligence should instead flirt with how faster Internet bequeath positively affect its creative abilities. For example, with faster download speeds, the industry will represent able to create healthier satisfied, and will follow able-bodied to get that content — that legitimate, not-pirated content — to populate quickly.

Of course, if the movie industry doesn't step up and create some kinda cool, speedy online content distribution to depart with Google Fiber, past someone else will. And when soul other does, the MPAA will cry "Piracy!"

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