With companies in America, like Netflix, allowing you for $9 a month to download, directly to your TV, all the movies you want to watch, the DVD/Video shops are only a few more years away from its end. Who wants the inconvenience of going to a video shop that is always filled with strange characters popping in like the last time I was there a person in a raincoat looking like a pimp with one of his girls draped all over him.

It is one thing to actually choose a DVD and get through the process but the worst part is having to return the next day and drop it off somewhere at a certain time. That type of inconvenience simply will not survive in this modern technological world, and it is only a matter of time before we get a download service in South Africa. The movies and distribution companies should hurry as well, because if you can download all the movies you want legitimately for approximately R63,00 a month in America, you would basically put an end to piracy.

Who would have the time to search the Internet for illegal copies of movies, then spend hours downloading them only to discover that you have the Italian version, or a corrupted version, or which was shot at the back of a cinema by somebody holding a shaky camera. Giving people the “as much as you like” approach for a set fee invariably works, as it does not nightclubs with their “drink as much as you like” nights, and it will certainly eliminate almost all piracy.