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Why I Steal Movies (Even Ones I'm In)
Jamie found a link saying "Like a billion other people, I download things illegally. I'm also an actor, writer, and director whose income depends on revenue from DVDs, movies, and books.This leads to many conflicts in my head, in my heart, and in bars."
>When you steal something you deprive the previous owner of their copy.
Ok, so when you illegally download a movie or song, you are stealing the copyright holder's right to distribute it.
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
I run Linux
Yes, yes. We've heard this one before. I agree that its a pain in the ass to watch movies of any kind, much less blueray, on a linux box (did it for years). however, it's hard because they realize that if they make it easy for a developer friendly platform to get at codecs and such, they will quickly lose control over their content - a very, VERY valuable thing. The real problem is that with the possible exception of Ubuntu, there is not enough demand for consumer desktops running linux. As a result, Ubuntu wisely chooses to spend their licensing dollars on more important things right now. If/when linux becomes a viable consumer desktop environment with a sufficient number of content purchasing users, there will be an blueray player.
A series is not out on DVD yet in my country
You're kidding right? If a new gadget is available across town but not at you're local store, does that mean you can go to the other store and steal it? The idea that you're justifying theft in the name of inconvenience is why there is no blueray for linux.
DRM. You want me to not enjoy my games if I buy them, while you could easily for less money make me not have to activate it and you won't have to run expensive servers for it? Well then... I'll just download it! Too fscking bad...
Again, you're saying that you don't like having to activate a game online (something I personally have never had even seen any problems with - technical or otherwise), so you have the right to steal the work of hundreds of devs and designers?!? And say too fucking bad??? Had you considered that such thinking led to DRM in the first place?
Sometimes I just want to watch a video on demand and only once... And I do not want to get my ass all the way to the mall the next day so I can enjoy the video as early as the next day.
Wow. You're probably too fat to fit through the door of the video store anyway. Maybe you should consider taking a walk instead of cuddling up for that pirated Dr. Who marathon.
Sometimes games/vids are too expensive. Seriously... I buy PSP games all the time because they are 20 euro's or less. No problem. Steam showed that halving the game's price results is more than twice the sales. Which in the end means more profit. But instead it must be so goddamn expensive.
So when something is too expensive, you steal it? Is that something you do with clothes or food? Would you steal a car because you think it's overpriced?
As for the price of content, Steam lowered the price on a few older games (some were more than 4 years old) for a few days. Have you ever heard of a clearance sale? They did not lower the price on new releases because new releases are very expensive these days (Red Dead Redemption cost RSG almost $100 million to produce). They went for volume pricing to gain market share for franchises with soon-to-be-released sequels. It had nothing to do with the "real" price of a game.
To summarize, you are exactly the kind of selfish, tech savvy thief that gives the content industry all the ammunition they need to keep the status quo. What do you think they tell congress when they ask for protections? They tell them people are lazy and cheap and want to steal things whenever they can. They're talking about YOU
No, some movies are so terrible that anyone involved in the creation of it should not be rewarded in any way, shape or form, but at the same time, there's the trainwreck factor. You *want* to see an example of something done so poorly. Thus, pirate it.
Canada: The US's more awesome sibling.
Wait? .00001% of the market that had a forced preview on a DVD, but of course on /. the super small minority all of a sudden represents the majority as usual. How the hell do people make this up and swallow it.
You mean the like to exaggerate around here a little to make a point, sometimes I just have to shake my head at the stuff that gets modded up to make a point. It was probably
They purposely do it and lie to themselves to make themselves feel better at what they are doing, but lets face it the most any DVD will force you is probably :30 seconds.
Personally I can go on with my life and not be such a whiny materialistic bitch if Hollywood doesn't deliver my movie, just gotta find bigger priorities in life than worrying about other peoples problems and why they shouldn't earn so much money.