said by goillini:I don't buy the argument that the movie studios extending an exclusivity window somehow excuses piracy. I'm sure the folks out there downloading Get Him to the Greek off of the Pirate Bay were only doing so because they couldn't get it from Netflix. Oh wait, that's right ... it's not because it's unavailable from Netflix, it's because they're a bunch of freeloading thieves.
People who are going to steal movies will steal them regardless. You're just parroting their excuse for doing so. Just because an artist has not provided their work in a way that you deem convenient for you does not entitle you to steal it.
No one is saying it excuses pirating. Well some of the pro-pirating assholes do but most moral people don't. BUT when you make something harder to obtain you do increase the likelyhood of it happening. And face it the studios have no reason to make it harder other than to prop up a DYING and OUTDATED business model.
