Tivo: Now an Addiction
November 12th, 2003 | Published in Out Loud
This is pretty obvious to anyone who’s either got a Tivo or dl’s video off P2P nets. It’s far easier to record/dl files than to watch them. This is why video piracy will never match that of music. I can work with music, but I can’t work watching TV. Everyone will generate this backlog quickly, and adjust. The stress level is only propped up by the limited storage space on the Tivo—if you could simply add more, you wouldn’t worry so much about your unwatched archive.
All of this, of course, has nothing to do with how the nets are going to regenerate lost ad revenues from commercial skipping.