Video Pirates Could Be TV Services Middleman, TDC Says

Video pirates could fill a middleman aggregator role in a fragmented video market, Myra Moore, president of Digital Tech Consulting, blogged Sunday. "There are legitimate concerns" viewers won't want to pay multiple services for video and search for content in multiple locations, and pirates offering a centralized service at $10 a month could become a popular alternative, she said: Ten or so years ago, piracy "took much more time, skill and lurking," but open-source media player software and IP-enabled distribution made piracy a lot easier, and shutting down such methods is complicated and time consuming. Content owners will continue to find ways to enforce their copyrights, but Moore sees a confluence of easy-to-use pirate tools, "a cultural blindness" to IP rights and ease of getting content from a sole pirate.