单项选择题
Television piracy gets less attention than film or music piracy, but it is no less widespread. One of the big (1) that had stood in its way--the large file sizes required to transmit video--is shrinking (2) computers get faster and bandwidth costs (3) . More and more people are buying televisions that can connect (4) the internet.
TV piracy (5) for two reasons. It can bring shows to foreign (6) faster, and it is free. The first (7) matters for only a very few shows, most of them American dramas. And media firms have reduced this advantage further by releasing TV shows almost (8) in different countries. The second advantage is not as big as it appears either (9) music and film, nearly all television is free at the margin: (10) a household has paid its subscription, it costs (11) to watch another show.
The real threat (12) by piracy is not that it threatens television’s current business model but that it makes building a new one more difficult. (13) of the limitations of advertising-supported online video, Euro- pean media firms are currently testing micropayments for shows. The wide (14) of free illegal alternatives may well damage these efforts. (15) the parallel is not with music or films but with newspapers and maga- zines. These days print piracy is a(n) (16) issue, since most general news articles are (17) free. If news- papers and magazines begin 18 people to read their output, the pirates are likely to turn (19) , and at a rapid rate. (20) it may be with television.
A．as
B．unless
C．if
D．where