The future of downloading.....

This is a subject that I have to talk about. The question is how will it look in the future, will we still be downloading? Do we need to download? Will it be legal to download? These are all good questions that I don’t have an answer to.

If we look back, downloading has existed nearly as long as the internet has “lived”. But it has escalated throughout the years. More and more sites have popped up on the net. But is has developed into a more and more legal problem. The music writers and artists wants to get paid for their work, the film writers and studios also wants to get paid. The problem here is that the new sites that have developed have this new system that makes it hard for the authorities to catch the downloader’s. A question here is if this will escalate? Will we have more charges on people who download? Will downloader’s face jail time?

I think that it will be impossible to stop all the downloader´s. The solution will be that they will meet half way. There is a solution on the idea stage. The idea is that when you buy your internet contract you choose if you want to download or not. If you say yes, then you choose how much you want to download, suppose you have three alternatives there. Then you pay a specific sum of money each month and you can download legal thereafter. The money will then be divided fairly to all the artist and screen writers and so on. The more they get downloaded the more percentage they will get. If you choose not to download then you will give the internet company the full power to check that you don´t download, and If you do, then you will be punished. This is a very good solution. The downloader´s can download with good conscious and the music and film companies will get some money. The companies have to think that it´s better than nothing, because today they don´t get anything from the downloader´s.

The downloading itself will be more and more accepted and it will be more and more used. Today people download everything from programs to television shows. Today you can even rent movies on the net, by just paying a sum of money, this means that you don´t need to go to the video store, you can just sit at home and rent your favorite movie, this means that your movie will always be in stock. This is not the same as the downloading that I talked about before, but it shows that more sites wants to use the escalation of downloading. But the big downloader’s don´t rent movies, they just download it without paying anything, and that´s where the idea that I talked about before enters…

A thought that I have is that we maybe will be able to download directly on the TV, the future televisions will either have a built in computer in them or they will be directly connected to the computer. So instead of choosing channel you can choose whatever movie or series you want to watch.

That´s all for now from my thought about downloading…..