Some of the people doing the copying are just being video pack-rats and just feel warm and fuzzy having access to 3000 movies...in my experience these people often buy plenty of DVDs on top of the downloads.
This would be the category I fall into. I often download movies. I also have a netflix account, some of which I copy. I've also purchased at least 6 movies in the past two weeks. With the exception of rare material that I can't purchase, I see downloaded/copied films as a placeholder in my collection. I regularly purchase legitimate copies of dvds that I've previously pirated.
Sometimes I download as a preview before purchase. More often than not, though, I download until I'm reasonably sure that I won't have to purchase a film several times to get the copy I want. I'll rarely buy the initial single disk offer because I know that there might be a double disk offer coming down the road.
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Some of the people doing the copying are just being video pack-rats and just feel warm and fuzzy having access to 3000 movies...in my experience these people often buy plenty of DVDs on top of the downloads. This would be the category I fall into. I often download movies. I also have a netflix account, some of which I copy. I've also purchased at least 6 movies in the past two weeks. With the exception of rare material that I can't purchase, I see downloaded/copied films as a placeholder in my collection. I regularly purchase legitimate copies of dvds that I've previously pirated. Sometimes I download as a preview before purchase. More often than not, though, I download until I'm reasonably sure that I won't have to purchase a film several times to get the copy I want. I'll rarely buy the initial single disk offer because I know that there might be a double disk offer coming down the road.