I am personally not a huge fan of streaming, I'd prefer to just pay a decent price per movie (not $30 like Blurays) and get a nice HD file with no DRM, no ads, and freedom to do whatever I want with the file (like iTunes music I guess? Though I don't even want to use that service... I prefer to just find songs on Youtube now... convenience I guess).

Convenience really is my big issue; Steam has proven it's true for others too. It's much quicker to get a movie via tpb or where ever, than to go hunting around the few remaining video stores or try to find any legit place online (especially if it's a foreign film or an obscure 70's one).

The other annoying thing is Youtube take-downs. There have been so many times where I wanted to show a clip of some show/movie to a friend and then couldn't find it on Youtube anymore :(.

I'd rather do a kickstarter (might be a bit big for kickstarter.com though) to buy major studios and release their IP work public domain. And then kickstart additional media works for them to produce. Cut out the middle men!

I like the idea of downloads.

This is why I enjoy torrent sites.

Breaking: IsoHunt now in the market for a movie filter written in brainfuck or INTERCAL.

I suggest using whitespace.

APL would be a better choice.

Thanks for keeping things in perspective.