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inconvenient truth #1
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by brunascle (994197) on Tuesday June 05, @01:33PM (#19399797)
it is entirely possible that my actions are unfairly hurting the recording and/
or motion picture industry. and i couldnt care less.
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You, sir, are an ass.
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by paladinwannabe2 (889776) on Tuesday June 05, @01:43PM (#19400015)
If the MAFIAA provides a valuable service to you, and expects money in
exchange, it seems reasonable that you should give them money. If they aren't
providing a valueable service, then don't pirate their garbage. Jerks like you
give the rest of us who oppose the current copyright regime a bad name.
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Re:You, sir, are an ass.
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by Sciros (986030) on Tuesday June 05, @01:57PM (#19400271)
That's the thing, though, isn't it? That the SERVICE THEY ARE PROVIDING isn't
very valuable. It's crippled by DRM, it has even gone so far as to prevent
people from creating guitar tabs by ear and sharing them. Such service might be
worth *something* monetarily, but far less than consumers are being charged. It
is not that they are providing garbage per se, more that the *manner* in which
they are providing music/film/etc. is unsuitable for many people.
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Re:You, sir, are an ass.
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by Fozzyuw (950608) on Tuesday June 05, @02:52PM (#19401233)
If the MAFIAA provides a valuable service to you, and expects money in
exchange, it seems reasonable that you should give them money. If they aren't
providing a valueable service, then don't pirate their garbage.
Interesting point. However, what your point lacks is quantity/quality. If it's
worth money, how much is it worth? Pirating isn't being done by the masses to
give the F-You to the record company and "the man" just because they are a big
company, but because they do not believe the product/service they supply is not
worth the value they're presenting it at.
Simply put, if pirates could buy brand a new movie on a standard DL-DVD without
a box (toss it in a paper slip) for $4-$5, pirates would probably buy it oppose
to copying. However, $15-$25 for a new DVD film is not worth it for most
people. They probably already paid $10 to see it in the theater or can pay $2-4
to rent it and watch it as many times as they want in the week they have it.
A long time ago, I mentioned this 'dream' of mine. Big box retails (Wal-Mart,
Best Buy, etc) getting a high quality DVD burning machine. You walk up to the
counter, ask the person for the film you want, they'll punch in the movie id
into their computer and the machine plops out a fresh high-quality burned DVD
with sticker art. The clerk tosses the DVD into a paper slip and charges you
$4. Maybe you rested a DVD case, and he charges you an extra $2 and prints out
the DVD case insert, pulls a plastic DVD case off the shelf and inserts the
slip art.
The consumer walks out the door with a $6 DVD, the store doesn't need to bother
about inventory space, besides the machine and computer containing the DVD
image catalog. Movie houses don't need to spend the time and money running DVD
making machines, paying truckers and shippers to drop it off at distribution
centers, etc. All they do, is download it into their customers DVD Making
machine computers on release day. They can even setup a distribution network
(hello bit-torrent), so they only have to upload it into the central Big Box
Store system and Big Box Store can be responsible for the band-width for
uploading it into all it's stores.
The cost is still more than DIYers but low enough to entice those who might
pirate to just buy instead. They don't have to go out and buy a stack of DVD
media. They probably get better quality DVD since they're not compressing the
image, or removing audio tracks to fit onto a non DL-DVD. They also get a nice
fancy art-work sticker, instead of just scrawling the name on with a sharpie
marker.
The only way to fight the pirates is to offer the service at the value that
it's worth. I think that, in general, people feel the cost of watching a movie
isn't what it use to be in a world where entertainment is at your finger tips
anywhere you go, from portable video game players, to cell phones, to the
internet.
Movie theaters are not the only place one can go to 'escape' reality, anymore.
Since the prices continue to climb along with entertainment competition, it's
only natural to see demand drop off. It goes for saying that I often won't see
a film in the theater anymore (unless it's a blockbuster or I'm a fan) and even
then, I make every effort to go the the cheaper matin e. It's now 'wait until
DVD' because I can rent it for $1-3. The same philosophy probably goes to those
who use to buy DVD's for their collection. However odd it is, that such a crime
is fairly socially acceptable.
Cheers,
Fozzy