Oh, boo hoo, to all of you.
Why should you be allowed to "steal" content? Why not learn some damn patience and wait for things, rather than seeing them "when you want".
This is what we get from a "spoiled" society. Parents don't know how to say "No!" to their children, or teach them some respect, so they grow up to be people who think that they can take what they like, when they like.
It is amazing how many of you are saying you wouldn't watch the movie, yet condemn this. Okay then, if you are doing nothing wrong, and have nothing to hide, what are you worried about then?
Why not just buy the DVD? DVD's are usually no more than $20-30. That's not that much. But even spending one cent is too much to ask the self-entitled who want everything now for free.
People create and make movies and TV shows. Yet slugs who haven't put in any of the work want to take the bread out of the mouths of these creative people.
Personally, I would like a company to go further, and embed a virus in any footage uploading online, and anyone who uses torrents downloads a massive virus instead. It's a bit hard to watch shows online when your computer is infected by a virus. This might teach a lesson that not everything is yours, and if you want something in life, you have to pay for it.
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wildzerowolf
9 years ago
^ The DVD was not available in Australia until much later and it had a very limited cinema release. People pirate because there's no other way to watch it.
It's a pretty simple problem to fix really. Offer consumers a way to pay for the film in a timely manner and people will pay. Why should people in other countries wait 6 or more months to see something the rest of the world has seen?
You need to see the bigger picture instead of pointing the finger and saying people want things for free, that's not the case at all.
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Johnwe87
9 years ago
Distribution is a massive problem in Australia. We literately only had access to netflix a week ago. Technically your right, it is stealing. However when I was a student and had no money, I borrowed DVDs, Copied hard drives and yes illegally downloaded as well. I discovered a wealth of movies I had never heard of and discovered an array of gems that I never would have never seen, had I stuck to the legal model of distribution. Now that I have a career and a little bit more of an income. I have a huge DVD and Blu Ray collection of special editions and movies I discovered during my student days. Instead of looking at torrenting as a loss, you could look at it as potential new fans and customers.
What I think is so crazy is the fact that in today's modern age of digital access to content. I have to pay for a VPN service so I can actually pay and watch content the same as everyone else in the world. It's that or wait six months for a limited release or illegally download.
I know it's wrong, but given the options surely it shouldn't come to a surprise
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dakowill11
9 years ago
Says the self-righteous smug who's never "stolen" a thing in his life, eh?
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loccomotive2000
9 years ago
There are two reasons why you've never downloaded a movie. You're either too stupid to figure out how to or too much of a pu$$y and terrified that the authorities would get to you. Either of those is the reason why you will never be successful in life; you can't even capitalize on something that is free.
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d_henderson1810
9 years ago
Or there is a third reason I won't download movies. Because, unlike you, I have morals, and I believe that stealing is wrong.
Obviously, you have no conscience, so the thought of taking something you haven't earned or paid for is second nature to you.
I would rather be stupid or a pussy than be a thief.
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glumpy_99
9 years ago
Oh, boo hoo, to all of you.
Why should you be allowed to "steal" content? Why not learn some damn patience and wait for things, rather than seeing them "when you want".
This is what we get from a "spoiled" society. Parents don't know how to say "No!" to their children, or teach them some respect, so they grow up to be people who think that they can take what they like, when they like.
It is amazing how many of you are saying you wouldn't watch the movie, yet condemn this. Okay then, if you are doing nothing wrong, and have nothing to hide, what are you worried about then?
Why not just buy the DVD? DVD's are usually no more than $20-30. That's not that much. But even spending one cent is too much to ask the self-entitled who want everything now for free.
People create and make movies and TV shows. Yet slugs who haven't put in any of the work want to take the bread out of the mouths of these creative people.
Personally, I would like a company to go further, and embed a virus in any footage uploading online, and anyone who uses torrents downloads a massive virus instead. It's a bit hard to watch shows online when your computer is infected by a virus. This might teach a lesson that not everything is yours, and if you want something in life, you have to pay for it.
I say boo hoo to the multi billion dollar distribution companies who thought charging 40 bucks for a piece of plastic back in the 80s was going to be a long range and feasible business model. And the ridiculous 'region coding' of discs even now which creates an impossible for people who want to legitimately purchase their goods. And don't get me started on the nosedive that housekeeping standards in cinemas have taken in recent years.
Personally, I have no problem holding an industry which has such bold faced contempt for their customers and clients in equally scathing contempt. Do some research on how the income is distributed, and you'll realise you are really taking precious little 'bread from the artists mouths'.
Robert Altman
1925-2006
RIP
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d_henderson1810
9 years ago
But do you know who you are stealing from as well?
The shopkeeper, who sells TV series on DVDs, since people can just upload and record their favourite show, instead of buying the series on disk.
The cinema usher, who gets fired because the cinema has had to cut costs, because people get the new movies online, rather than watch them in a cinema.
The little guy ALWAYS suffers. It is set up that way. You don't hurt the big distributors. They have way too much money. No, instead it is the retailers who suffer and go out of business. You are taking food out of their mouths, and it isn't their decision whether Sony or Universal stuff around with programs. They are just trying to make a living.
You're not hurting the big guys. You are just hurting other little guys.
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glumpy_99
9 years ago
Your previous post was about the hurt this caused the 'creative' people, not the little guy.
My argument is that this mostly hurts the useless middle men whose jobs have been created simply because of all the excessive merchandising revenue that DVDs and inflated ticket prices have created. Cinemas long ago started implementing cost cutting techniques, including reduced staffing, in order to make the enterprise more cost effective. As a business its your choice if you want to do this, but I think it's a bit rich to lay a drop in attendance rates for a lesser product at the feet of the 'scourge' of piracy.
Don't get me wrong, the ethical and moral argument for illegal downloading is murky at best, but it's difficult for me to have much sympathy for an industry whose business model is based around greed and avarice finding themselves being undone by greed and avarice.
The industry should take this as a lesson to establish good will with its consumers, rather than taking a litigistic approach, and realise that the unsustainable $40m per movie Tom Cruise/Jim Carrey period of the 90s is well and truly over.
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bluesy
9 years ago
You realise millions (this is a moderate estimate, more like tens or hundreds of millions) of people download movies, music. Should every studio sue every person that ever downloaded their movie? You realise that would be a huge part of the population, in more developed countries with broadband probably close to 1/3 if not half of it (again, a moderate estimate). Of all the people i know that are under 30 or even 40, almost everyone has done it. Will you jail the young population for doing it. Just saying the obvious.
"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."
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