http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html
May 13 , 2005 | PART ONE: HYPERDISTRIBUTION October 18th, 2004 is the day TV died. That evening, British satellite broadcaster SkyOne — part of NEWS Corp's BSkyB satellite broadcasting service — ran the premiere episode of the re-visioned 70s camp classic Battlestar Galactica. (That episode, "33," is one of the best hours of drama ever written for television.) The production costs for Battlestar Galactica were underwritten by two broadcast partners: SkyOne in the UK, and the SciFi Channel in the USA. SciFi Channel programers had decided to wait until January 2005 (a slow month for American television) to begin airing the series, so three months would elapse between the airing of "33" in the UK, and its airing in the US. Or so it was thought. The average viewer of the SciFi network is young and decidedly geeky. They are masters of media; they can find ways to get things they shouldn't have. Thus, a few hours after airing on SkyOne, "33" was available for Internet download. No news there. A new peer-to-peer file sharing technology, BitTorrent, was employed to share the quarter-gigabyte audiovisual files of "33". Unlike older forms of internet downloading, where too many requests for the same data can clog up internet links and send servers crashing. BitTorrent distributes files more and more efficiently, as more people join the hunt for the data. Everyone looking for bits of a file - say, an episode of Battlestar Galactica - shares the pieces they've already located with anyone else who doesn't already have that piece. Since the pieces are scattered randomly among all the users who want the data, there's a lot of to-and-fro between the users; rather than being a request for one copy of one file on one server, it's as though many hundreds of hands are copying and exchanging playing cards. You may start out holding only the Ace of Hearts, but soon enough you'll have a full deck. This is a form of peer-to-peer file sharing known as "swarming": all of the peers in a swarm share the portions of the data they've already received. And, as the Chinese proverb goes, "Many hands make light work." BitTorrent transforms the creaky and unreliable technology of audiovisual distribution, making it fast and hyper-efficient. BitTorrent creates the conditions for something I've termed "hyperdistribution" - a distribution channel which is even more efficient than broadcasting. That has certainly been the case with Battlestar Galactica. The British aficionados of the series provided torrents for each episode within a few hours of each broadcast. Many fans in the US picked them up and watched them; so did many people in Australia. While you might assume the SciFi Channel saw a significant drop-off in viewership as a result of this piracy, it appears to have had the reverse effect: the series is so good that the few tens of thousands of people who watched downloaded versions told their friends to tune in on January 14th, and see for themselves. From its premiere, Battlestar Galactica has been the most popular program ever to air on the SciFi Channel, and its audiences have only grown throughout the first series. Piracy made it possible for "word-of-mouth" to spread about Battlestar Galactica. Just two months ago, we saw something very similar happen, again with a beloved series, the BBC's Doctor Who. After a hiatus of almost two decades, the BBC cast Christopher Eccelston in the role of the Doctor, and set the show to premiere on the 24th of March. A few weeks before the air date, an "unfinished" version of the first episode of the new series leaked onto the internet through the BBC's production partner CBC. Hundreds of thousands of Doctor Who fans downloaded the episode, wanting a preview of this new version of the nearly-immortal Doctor. The BBC were publicly outraged, but there's a strong sense that this act of piracy, while not officially sanctioned, was unofficially encouraged by BBC. It certainly created a groundswell of interest in the series, allowing people to "try before they buy," and probably increased program viewership. (The episode drew 10.81 million viewers to BBC1, which is among the highest ratings Doctor Who has ever seen.)
Kennt Ihr den Artikel ? Der Artikel geht natürlich noch weiter siehe den link oben ich habe aber nur den ersten Teil mal kopiert. Ich weiss nicht wie es bei Euch ist, aber ich kenne schon viele die sich neue Serie vorher aus dem Netz holen bevor sie hier ausgestrahlt werden.
Ich denke mal seiten wie : http://www.serienjunkies.de/ oder http://www.scifi-forum.de/index.php? würden gar nicht so eien zulauf haben wenn die Serien hier nicht vorher auf anderen Wegen erhältlich wären.
Ich finde zb das Video angebot von Google bzw Itunes klasse wo man sich neue Serien wie lieder kaufen kann. Leider geht das bisher nur mit US zugang 
Ich hoffe ja das sich das ändert und die Serienmacher nicht den selben Fehler machen den plattenfirmen gemacht haben.
