It just simply amazes me that so many of these companies spend so much money trying to stop piracy, when there are business models who have had success based on embracing the easy distribution of the internet. Steam and iTunes have had plenty of success by being easy to use and very accessible, this encourages both the tech savvy as well as the computer illiterate to use their services. It's unfortunate that the biggest opposers to the use of internet for the distribution of digital goods (such as the movie industry) are as uncreative outside their own industry as they are inside of it. It's like they stopped evolving after a certain point, and instead of moving with the times and changing, they just steadfastly stick with what they know.
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