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reply posted on 1-7-2010 @ 07:39 AM by Mobius1974
reply to post by K J Gunderson


I happen to 100% agree... Everyone feels "safe" behind their little desk... Annonymously downloading movies and or music.. F'ing cowards!! Your making a stand against high prices?? Grow a pair and go out and protest the cost of a new car.. Go steal one. Maybe while your at it..I think LCD TV's are too much, should I go steal one?

I think this thread shows the hypocrisy of the so called intelligent folks on ATS. I wonder if half of you keyboard protesters would be so apt to steal these things, if your IP was your SS#... I am done wondering.. You would decide if you have the money to go to the movies, or wait for the DVD.

It is incredible how lightly you are taking this.... So you think the prices are high.... so you steal it, to show exactly what?

Don't you think the price hike has something to do with the lost revenue from illegal downloading? It has a direct relationship to the price of DVD's and CD's.

The stores and businesses in our country have had to cushion their bottom line for years, due to you protesters and plain old theives!

You can argue all you want about price and product.. you have the right to not watch or buy.. BUT you do not have the right to steal! Its that simple. Twist it anyway you want... the fact remains.. ITS THEFT!

Pull your head out of the sand.


reply posted on 1-7-2010 @ 08:54 AM by Majic
Market Forces

Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
Piracy, if it's even as big a problem as they pretend it is, can be easily reduced with more consumer friendly marketing and a profit can be had.

Definitely.

While it is immoral and illegal to distribute the intellectual property of others without permission, the impetus for doing so and the demand for such services would be greatly reduced if better alternatives were more readily available. And though the process has been somewhat slower than it should be, they are becoming available.

Services like Netflix, for example, already offer what most movie buffs want at reasonable rates, and there are also many legitimate ad-driven sites on the Internet that offer massive catalogs for viewers at no charge.

Unlike DAT, the Internet is already established and can't be effectively hobbled by entertainment industry lobbies. The old strategy of trying to halt the march of technological progress through lawsuits is finding its way onto the ash heap of history where it belongs.

Rather, as the entertainment industry adapts to the realities of near-instantaneous worldwide digital communication, the niche that pirates currently fill will become smaller and smaller, and though it will probably never disappear entirely, any pretext of legitimacy they may claim ultimately will.


reply posted on 1-7-2010 @ 09:17 AM by jokei
reply to post by nik1halo


You can get films for a penny on Amazon sometimes - I tend to trust the user-reviews too, as there's no vested interest in promoting something.

Blockbuster won't be around much longer, they've already started shutting stores.

My best suggestion is to take recommendations off friends, I've got a massive movie collection and share stuff with my mates.

Not that I would recommend illegally downloading things, because that's naughty but there's a site called BTjunkie that I've heard has a very comprehensive range of material.


reply posted on 1-7-2010 @ 09:43 AM by nik1halo
reply to post by jokei


BTjunkie is very good, I have to say... not that I would recomment downloading either... #cough#

The amazing thing is, if there was a site out there, where you could cheaply rent a movie and have access to stream it for 24 hours, piracy would halve overnight! I would certainly be willing to pay a couple of quid to sit on my arse and have instant access to any released movie and not have to wait for it to download either! I rent movies off Virgin TV's On Demand service all the time, but it's not a very comprehensive or up to date system.

I generally only download DVD rips too, if I want to see a movie that's out at the cinema that badly, I'll go a watch it there, rather than watch a crap CAM version! I'm actually going to see the new Shrek in 3D at the IMAX tonight, lol.


reply posted on 1-7-2010 @ 09:47 AM by ~Lucidity
reply to post by Zeta Reticulan

I know. But unless you run your own proxies and tunneling proxies what's available free to most people and what most people know about this isn't safe from these agencies. They found these sites, didn't they? They can find you.
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