Piracy is Good

I have just watched a video about how piracy is good. Mark Pesce gave a presentation to the Australian Film and Televeision School in Sydney. I know that this is how I get most of my television programming. I hope what he says can play out without any interruption from the governments. I can see the Australian government at least wanting to get in there and restrict what you can and can't do. It's like when they "de-regulate" and industry by making it conform to more rules... go figure. My current list of "Hyperdistributed Programming": Alias, Desperate Housewives, Firefly, Grey's Anatomy, House, How I Met Your Mother, Invasion, Las Vegas, Lost, My Name is Earl, One Tree Hill, Smallville, The Amazing Race, The OC, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis. I don't have any time to watch much "normal" tv anymore. And the good thing about how I watch tv now? I can watch it whenever it suits me. I don't have to be in front of the box at 7.30 on a particular night to watch a show. I can just download it, and watch it later, even weeks later. I can spend a Sunday afternoon catching up on the last 5 weeks of Alias if I like. I have only one problem with all this: Hard disk space.