And it's looking like fewer stores are staying open due to the prevalence and importance of the World Wide Web in providing to our contemporary society the necessary movie downloads which we most definetely NEED in order to stay alive!
What the article didn't mention was the fact that most of these downloaders are downloading content illegally. This illegal content is provided by the likes of The Pirate Bay, Isohunt, BitSnoop and Torrentz, just to name a couple. The article also explored the internet as providing cheap, easy downloads. In the user comments, I saw individuals mention the popularity of Bigpond with internet movie download users.
In all honesty, most of the people I know use http://www.thepiratebay.org/. With the click of one button anything from a new release film to an old favourite are at your fingertips. It is so simple, download then burn to disc and place on your portable harddrive! Why would many people bother having to leave the house to visit a video store if it is not necessarily guaranteed that what they want is readily available. Plus, Pirate Bay works out to be FREE. I believe the 'video shop' will soon be a thing of the past.
However, the DVD industry could survive in the Australian maket if it adapts and evolves to fit the needs and wants of our society. The article also mentions that well-run independent stores are the markets that are surviving, simply because they have another ingredient that some of the major corporate stores may not have.
