 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | reply to JammerMan79
Re: How to interpret MPAA / RIAA "piracy" numbers said by JammerMan79:He's not saying it's good or bad. He's saying that a loss of a sale should only be calculated on the people that would have actually bought it in the first place... If the person wouldn't have bought it anyways then there's no lost revenue. You also have to add those who only want to watch/listen to it and not own a physical copy and thus go to Blockbuster, Netfix, or their local Library and get the physical copy for a limited period of time. If I miss a movie in the theaters, I will often rent the movie to try it out before buying the DVD for my "can [re]watch it anytime" collection. Using Bittorent just bypasses the DVD Rental for my do-I-want-it try-out. |
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 JammerMan79Premium,VIP
join:2004-05-13
Prince George, BC
kudos:10 | agreed, I do the same thing. Download a movie and then purchase it used at the rental store for $10.00
If I didn't check it out first I would not be buying it at all. I have around 2000 dvd's (I hate to think of how much I've spent over the last 10 yrs)
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The local library is a good point. My wife and I have seen many movies from our local library's DVD collection. Should the MPAA count these as lost sales? Of course not. Just because I borrowed a movie doesn't mean that I would have purchased the DVD had the movie not been on the library's shelves. |
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