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re: Why is it ok to steal media?
Posted on 11/26/12 at 11:51 am to Freauxzen
Posted on 11/26/12 at 11:51 am to Freauxzen
quote: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?
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.).
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.
This post was edited on 11/26/12 at 11:57 am
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Posted on 11/26/12 at 11:57 am to alajones
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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?
I'm a subscriber of both, doesn't mean they meet my needs. They do what they do for a cost, but yes, if I want to take a movie on the road with me I download it. If I want access to a movie they don't have, Redbox may be out of it, etc.
How can we be "Out of" media in this day and age? You can't that's just an archaic idea.
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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.
Agree on this. I won't say for a minute that I am being legal. Maybe I don't care. Maybe I've bought over 400 DVD's gone to movies multiples of times over, that I feel I give Hollywood and the Music Industry plenty of income. If they still refuse to meet me in the middle and I have do something slightly illegal to get my experiences, then so be it. If I didn't want to take that chance, I wouldn't. It's that simple.
Posted on 11/26/12 at 12:07 pm to alajones
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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?
For me? No, I use NetFlix and Red Box, but the younger generation has grown up in a much different world. For many of them illegally downloading a music file is to them what recording a song off the radio on my boom box was to me as a kid. It seems like an easy and natural alternative since they've been doing it their whole lives. Honestly it'd be more effort for me to set up torrents to stream to my PS3 than to go to the Red Box. But for someone that's been using torrents since junior high, going to Red Box is seen as the unnecessary inconvenience.
This post was edited on 11/26/12 at 12:08 pm
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