This statement struck me as odd:
"In some ways these guys are looking outdated. File-sharing as a means to pirate content is becoming yesterday's technology,"
Which other means to pirate content are in development? Could he be referring to Streaming rather than Sharing (e.g. Grooveshark vs Soulseek) as an upcoming form of piracy?
Yup. It feels like "everyone" I know here in Norway has switched from pirating music to using Spotify, even my parents. In November 2010 1 million Norwegians used Spotify (and it has probably increased a lot since then) and Norway is a country of only 5 million people! Since Spotify is a Swedish service it's probably just as, if not more, popular there.
Pirating movies and software are still quite common though.
Yeah, I don't think that guy actually meant what he was saying, either because he had some alternative agenda or because he doesn't know what he's talking about. I want to know what the other forms of online piracy are. Technically with streaming, you're still copying a file and sharing it - just in little chunks...
He's a music analyst, so he probably means streaming. I'm not sure if he means from Youtube et al. or from dedicated music-piracy websites. It does seem like streaming is easier and has less risk of legal repercussions than file sharing.
Indeed, that left me wondering. If it's so outdated, perhaps they could stop hunting "the last of the file-sharers"? Or perhaps it's just some way of trying to make file-sharing look less "cool", something of the past, for the public.
Which other means to pirate content are in development? Could he be referring to Streaming rather than Sharing (e.g. Grooveshark vs Soulseek) as an upcoming form of piracy?