If you give something for free, then nobody will want to take it, right? It seems so if you look at the findings from anti piracy group BayTSP. They are showing a dramatic drop in the piracy rankings of the USA. Down from first position to fourth. And the reason for the drop seems to be free tv website Hulu.

So at a time when pirating content. Movies, software or music has never been easier to do, is the downloading dropping?

The answer appears to become clear when you look at the success of online tv website Hulu. In March of this year, Hulu showed a massive 42 million videos and this number continues to grow. There seems to be a direct correlation with the drop in piracy and the rise in watching movies/tv shows online.

In the past, if you as a viewer wanted to watch 24 then you either brought the DVD, signed up to a pay TV service or downloaded from a torrent site. Now this and many other hit TV episodes can be found on a catch up tv service.

This shows the tv content industry that piracy can be defeated. The downside is that the only way of doing this is to give it away. If a way can be found to generate enough revenue by using this model, then we have reached a Utopia. But life is never that simple, is it?

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