From: Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster,Ltd.,
et al.
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:47:28 -0300
At 03:22 PM 06/07/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote:
work deserves the same amount of protection from theft and exploitation
that a purchaser of that work has. Is there anybody here who honestly
thinks it should be legal to download a DVD copy for free that you would
otherwise have to pay for? Nonsense.
Conversely, does anyone here think it's reasonable that someone should be
able to charge $30 for a DVD? I doubt it. And the argument, "if you don't
want to pay, don't buy" doesn't cut it.
Actually it does. Wait 8 months and buy it for $5 at Wal-mart.
BTW, it does not cost 30 cents to make a DVD. It costs $100m to make a
movie, and 30 cents to make the dvd copy of it.
There's no competition on movie ticket and DVD prices, so the consumer gets
what price the industry fixes. Find another industry where that's the
norm.
You are right on theaters. Which is why I dont go, I have a better system at
home. Once the film goes to DVD however, you have plenty of choices on how
to view it legally. P2P is not one of them. You can pricesearch it out on
various vendors, rent it, or wait a while to get it in the discount bin.
People are using P2P to avoid what they consider to be over inflated
prices. Does that make it right? Maybe not, but it's probably just as
right as any rebellion against what is seen as an unfair regime.
Somehow I don't equate fat college kids downloading ROTS on bandwidth paid
by my tax dollars because they are too lazy and cheap to spend 9 bucks with
the resistance fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
