I Tried To Watch Game Of Thrones And This Is What Happened

I assume you've seen this comic from The Oatmeal entitled I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened. It's been making the rounds this week and has likely been featured on plenty of the sites you read every day. However, if you have not read it please do so now because it perfectly captures the mentality and rationale involved with pirating TV shows and movies. Stealing is stealing but at least there is usually a reasoning behind it... however loose.

Even more fascinating than the comic is the follow-up discussions regarding the issue - such as. Heavy Hangs The Bandwidth That Torrents The Crown from Andy Ihnatko. He eloquently nails two substantial thoughts from the comic - 1) torrentors are largely impatient and feel some sense of being owed instant gratification for their desires and 2) Content providers are missing a huge opportunity by not having media available in a more timely fashion (look to the way the UK puts out DVD's for a better idea of this).

Anyway, this is a whole lot of text for a silly comic strip but it's a subject worth the time to think about. You'll never defeat piracy entirely but it could be substantially curbed if the old model of content delivery was rethought and made more immediate. Right?