The MPAA spends who-knows-how-many millions of dollars hiring lawyers and PIs to go after volunteer programmers in countries all over the world, when they <i>could</i> just be spending that on an online distribution system for movies that would provide the service that Popcorn Time currently does. There&#x27;s demand for streaming movies and up-to-date releases with people willing to pay, why not meet it?<p>This kind of parallels craigslist, which has turned the classifieds market into a multi-billion-dollar sinkhole (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theweek.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;461056&#x2F;craigslist-took-nearly-1-billion-year-away-from-dying-newspapers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theweek.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;461056&#x2F;craigslist-took-nearly-1-...</a>). Except craigslist has critical mass and can&#x27;t be easily replaced, whereas a concerted effort to innovate instead of stagnate by the movie industry could easily become a preferred service to PT.