Television is dead, Long Live the Pirates!

Television is at death’s door with the internet stabbing it in the back. Traditional tv as we know it is dying due the copyright dodging, peer to peer file share system, known as torrenting, on the internet. Everything on tv you can view on the internet and more at any time you like. Tv follows a schedule so the show you want to watch might not be in the time slots that you can view them or not even being aired at all. The internet has all sorts of downloads and online streaming videos for entertainment whenever you want to view them. On the internet you can find an abundance of content that suits you more at your fingertips.

Copyright laws are in an ongoing fight against the fast evolution of technology. Technology is advancing far too fast for copyright laws to keep up with and is constantly being out dated. This has resulted in mass piracy over the internet without boundaries. The digital revolution is counter-intuitive to copyright. Technological change is moving too fast for adequate laws to be implemented and for affected industries to keep pace. Torrenting online is so easy and accessible to the consumer. Torrent websites are abundant on the internet and difficult to be rid of. ‘The Pirate Bay’ for example is constantly changing domain so it’s almost impossible to keep it down off the internet. Once it gets shut down the site soon moves onto a new domain to become available. “While the URL to the Pirate Bay itself has been blocked in these countries, numerous mirror websites emerged to make the website available at different URLs, routing traffic around the block.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay* Although the site may be blocked, there are ways around it that are too hard to keep up with in maintaining the bloc...

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...ng of ABC News 24 on computers, tablets and smart phones, and programs selected just for iview or even before TV.” This service makes watching traditional tv far more accessible by hosting it on the internet for consumers to be able to view it on their personal devices at any time they want, battling tvs main issue of availability. iView also claims to have no ads and is also free, making it just as desirable than a torrent; free, easy and no time wasted on watching unwanted commercials.

Television has not yet died but will if it doesn’t choose to make a change to keep up with the fast evolving age of new media. The more channels that decide to move to streaming their content online as well as on traditional television, television will have the best of both words and take advantage of the internet. Those changes need to be made for traditional television to thrive.