One simple question: How much did GL loose due to STW3 being pirated?
Answer, who cares he set a record at the box office for revenue anyway!
If I'm a lazy apathetic ass who d/ls movies or waits watches on cable
(hbo, showtime, etc...) what money did they or do they stand to gain
from me in the first place? None, I wasn't going to the movies in the
1st place.
If I do buy a DVD and show 5 friends who never saw it and they never buy
it, how much does anyone loose? Technically they loose 5x the price
unless seeing it drives someone to buy it. Libraries lend out books &
music for free, where's the revenue stream in that?
Get over it people copyright and phantom proffits lost are BS where the
enough people paying for something to begin with to offset the
freeloaders. RIAA fears us becoming Russia or the Asian markets where no
one pays for anything. Not gonna happen if the record breaking proffits
likes STW3 are any indication of how many "legit" people shell out $10+
for a movie.
Don't make it legal, just go after people copying & CHARGING for pirated
movies which is a true lost sale and leave the leeches alone. After all
do you think if no one ever copied anything that prices would drop
(prices are high to offset piracy, right?) & proffits increase? No, but
WOULD proffits increase and still they would bitch about lost sales to
people who didn't want to see their controlled IP at any price.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
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. 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.
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.
T
