re: Why is it ok to steal media?

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Even if you combined Netflix and Amazon, you don't get very much. And their service is limited (No Amazon Video phone app), limited download options, etc.).

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So the logical alternative is illegally downloading a movie? When it takes two days to get a movie from Netflix in the mail or 5 minutes to Redbox?


Don't get me wrong on my stances in this thread. I'm not weeping for a billion dollar industry that is filled with plenty of thieves. But I can distinguish between what is legal and what isn't. Whether or not it matches up with someone's own ethos.

I guess you could make the argument that in order to change things you have to break the rules. Which is fine. No doubt the industry is feeling the hurt and changing to the times. But you will have casualties in your war vs the industry. I used to download the shite out of music and movies. But I didn't want to be one of the few thousand that got a lawsuit and I didn't think it was a good thing to teach my kids to do so we have been doing the legal thing for a few years now.