March Madness: Streaming video is a future money-mad telecoms don't get | Dan Gillmor

I'm on the verge of joining the cord-cutters – people who've dropped or never bought traditional pay-TV packages. But this increasingly large audience is simply out of luck when it comes to HBO's admittedly excellent original programming, unless they have the patience to wait. This helps explain why HBO shows are so popular on file-sharing systems: Game of Thrones was the most pirated show last year – again. I don't recommend illegal downloading, but I can absolutely understand why people do it. I can also understand why HBO sticks with a business model that piggybacks on the cable/satellite providers' still-powerful grip on the viewing public. - Dan Gillmor, The Guardian

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