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HBO Says Game of Thrones Piracy Is "a Compliment"

Posted by samzenpus on from the piracy-is-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery dept.

An anonymous reader writes "HBO programming president Michael Lombardo not only says that illegal downloading of Game of Thrones isn't hurting the show, but goes so far as to say it's 'a compliment' and worries about the image quality of pirated copies"

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  1. Re:No shit by Cinder6 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Or you could wait for DVD release, or buy it via Amazon Instant. I don't have HBO, but I can still easily access the show via legal means; I just have to wait longer than subscribers.

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  2. Re:No shit by cheekyjohnson · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Whether it helps or hurts is in itself a mere opinion and really depends on what you believe is hurtful to begin with.

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  3. Re:No shit by devent · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Oh way to go to include the "lets compare piracy to a real crime where a person is actually hurt". That argument is no better then "think of the children" "argument". You can't compare a crime where real people are hurt to a crime where it's just a copyright violation. It's not even theft, it's a copyright violation, a civil offense. With a copyright violation at minimum nobody is hurt and at maximum the studio is losing a few bucks. And you compare that to rape.

    With the DRM enabled you can't obtain the video in markets where the studios haven't enabled it. Without DRM I could just get it from their website or whatever and watch how I like. In this case DRM is not preventing any piracy, but encouraging it.

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