Says Ben Coppin from web tracking firm Envisional. The Guardian reports that with the increasing incidence of TV piracy, the era of the PVR/DVR may be over before it’s even properly begun .
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The BBC reports the key findings from the Envisional research: “It’s now as easy to download a pirate TV show as it is to programme a VCR,” said Ben Coppin.
According to Envisional 18% of downloaders were from within the UK and that downloads of TV programmes had increased by 150% in the last year.
Exact figures are difficult to pin down, but it is thought that about 80,000 to 100,000 people in the UK download TV programmes.
A typical episode of 24 was downloaded by about 100,000 people globally, said the report, and an estimated 20,000 of those were from within the UK
The industry has coined the term “time-shifting” to describe this trend of being able to watch what you want, when you want. The more retro phrase is video on demand.
The BBC ran a trial of what it calls the Interactive Media Player (iMP) last year, which was based on a peer-to-peer distribution model.
It let people download programmes it held the rights to up to eight days after they had already aired. It is looking to do a more expansive trial later this year.
The BBC already allows radio fans to hear programmes they missed online up to a week after broadcast.
About six million people in the UK now have a fast, always-on net connection via cable or phone lines.
A typical episode of 24 was downloaded by about 100,000 people globally, said the report, and an estimated 20,000 of those were from within the UK.
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