Anthony Agius of MacTalk Australia just about perfectly summarises what is wrong with these days with the music and movie industries in a long blog post that is worth reading, even if what he would like (along with most of the rest of us) is unrealistic (because the media companies have painted themselves into corners with all the licensing and other issues):

I’m a filthy stinking pirate. I download gigabytes upon gigabytes of TV shows, movies and music. I have a 30TB file server (yes, I really do) that holds it all and lets me share it with my friends.

I am a media whore. I want to watch everything, listen to everything. BitTorrent, Usenet, file sharing forums all let me dive right in to the flowing river of delicious content and rub my body all over it’s digital goodness. Mmmm.

Without this sort of access to the stuff I crave, being limited by what is portioned out to me on commercial TV, or what is sold in a store, I would be a very different person. All those songs I listen to, all those things I watch, make up part of who I am. That’s how important this stuff is to me – it makes up part of my core being.

It probably sounds like I’m just a cheapskate who likes to infringe on intellectual property, but that’s not true. I really do want to support, as much as I financially can, the creators of the media I so lovingly enjoy. Unfortunately, backwards and old-fashioned media companies, won’t let me do it on my terms and because of that, are literally missing out on money.