Night Vision Goggles vs Pirates

Cormorant writes "It was reported in The Guardian that Warner Brothers has sent night vision goggles to cinemas across Britain for ushers to don and scan for camcorder pirates during the entire length of the movie [the new Harry Potter], along with watermarks and codes displayed on screen during the film. Mr Graham said "Video piracy is rife everywhere, and with the UK screening the film four days before the rest of the world, Warner was concerned the movie would end up on the internet. Warner sees the investment as negligible compared with the threat to the whole industry."

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Re:Prices are ALREADY REASONABLE!!!

[Lord_Dweomer]

"How about CDs, you say? Same thing. 15 bucks for a CD is cheap. For 15 bucks, you get an hour or so of high-quality (fidelity anyway, if not content) digital music that you can listen to over and over again, as long as you want."

Funny, DVDs cost about the same. Fact is, CDs are a rippoff, so much so that the courts have fined the industry big bucks for price fixing. So while I do feel that movie prices are too expensive, I can blame some of it on inflation, whereas there is no valid reason for the price of music CDs being what they are. You are whining about what you personally feel is a fair value. Newsflash, other people value things differently than you do. You do not determine what is a fair value for something, that is something the market decides, and piracy is all about the market speaking its mind.