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 jester121Premium
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Re: My acquaintance in Poland always downloads pirate movies said by danawhitaker:I spend a lot of time in several show fandoms online, and these aren't as isolated of cases as you'd think. And yes, while it's just entertainment, think about whatever your favorite hobby is, and imagine it being gimped similarly. Would you not be frustrated if you couldn't stay current in it and participate in it? No, at approximately age 9, I reached a level of maturity that permitted me to stop measuring my self-worth based on my ability to speak knowledgably with peers about last night's episode of the latest TV shows or next weekend's movies.
Also by around that same age, I learned that it is okay if my friends had toys that I didn't have (and vice versa) and that we didn't all have to dress the same, or look the same, or talk the same.
I play a lot of video games, so maybe that's my correlary. I suppose if I wanted to get in the beta test of the great new game, even while thousands of other people WERE in the beta, and having fun, OMG, that would be horriffic and I'd probably have to cut myself. And if I was unemployed when the game was finally released and didn't have money to buy the game, I guess I'd have to try to shoplift it from the Gamestop store. But at least I wouldn't feel "gimped". 
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 danawhitakerSpace...The Final FrontierPremium
join:2002-03-02
Urbandale, IA | "No, at approximately age 9, I reached a level of maturity that permitted me to stop measuring my self-worth based on my ability to speak knowledgably with peers about last night's episode of the latest TV shows or next weekend's movies."
There's no need to be condescending about it. If you think I'm basically talking about water cooler gossip, you're missing my point entirely. The fans I'm talking about are the people who would travel to another country to attend conventions, buy everything as soon as it's available in their region, and are cheerleaders for the shows they watch to no end. They are some of the biggest assets that the content providers *have* because they're the people encouraging everyone they can think of to watch the show too. And then, in turn, their reward for being such an avid fan is being denied the opportunity to watch the product they love when it's first released. So can I see their perspective of choosing to download it? Absolutely. And they still spend money on it when it's available. So I wouldn't fault them for it.
The people like the guy in Poland who downloads anything and everything he can get? He wouldn't be paying in the first place. No one loses money on him. If anything, they maybe gain some, because he might talk up the stuff he watches to other people who would in turn give it a chance and spend money on it when they wouldn't have.
And I don't think beta test is an accurate or fair comparison. I think a better one would be that the game wouldn't be sold in your country at all, or not until an undetermined point in the future. If it's so unimportant, than why is it important enough at all to restrict people geographically from those things?
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