said by Fountainhead:Anyone here who complains about actors making too much or crying about how bad the movies are clearly has no understanding about supply and demand.
If you think the movies are bad, then I guess you shouldn't be wasting all of your oh-so-precious time downloading it illegally either.
Hypocrites.
So according to you, anyone who questions this biased "study" must be someone who is downloading illegally? What kind of logic is that?
There are some people who present high prices or low quality as an excuse for copyright infringement. But others are merely suggesting that there are other possible causes for the alleged "losses" which the cartel questionably attributes to piracy. (There is *some* loss to piracy, but it turns out to be a lot less than claimed when the biased methodology is exposed.)
Even in regard to the "hypocrites" as you call them, it's not an either/or dichotomy where a movie must be either worth full price or not desirable at all. In reality, there are often mismatches between asking and offering price, and this is a very common reason for piracy.
For example, smuggling appears whenever taxes artificially inflate the price of a product (cigarettes across borders for example). The situation of the entertainment industry is like this in principle. The artificial monopoly privilege introduced by copyright law in its current form distorts the market and piracy naturally appears to fill the gaps created.
Watch for fallacies of your own before lecturing about economics.