Re:Internet (Score 1)

As far as I know the main barriers are rights holders and bandwidth. Rights holders (i.e. the makers of Lost) don't want people to be able to get their grubby mitts on easy to distribute videos of their stuff that they'll be able to flog for obscene amounts on DVD. They don't seem to see that people can just rip them and put them on Bittorrent anyway... Bandwidth costs are still to high to allow people to download large episodes (~400-500MB?). Advertisers are coming round to the idea that ads in the downloaded episodes are possible - targeting and tracking on these episodes would be extremely interesting to any advertiser. This does take time though!