 ImmerAspiring GentlemanPremium
join:2010-01-07
Evans, GA
kudos:3
 ·Comcast
| what grinds my gears I'd like access to entertainment content. I love Netflix, and didn't see any reason to move to HuluPlus... but now after this thread, I'm probably not going to even try. As for all the "freedom/rights rhetoric"... bogus. It's over-played "justification/rationalization" for stealing content. It's not my place to deman KFC to share with me the "secret herbs and spices" just because I don't want to have their chicken.
But here is where I do take issue with the entertainment industry. If I do buy a BluRay Disc... full price... then I should be able to play it on any BluRay Player running whatever software I deem fit. If I want to embrace the OpenSource community, and choose to run Ubuntu rather than Windows7... that shouldn't preclude me from watching the BluRay disc I payed the entertainment industry for permission. That's collusion.
/dismountsoapbox.
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | And this is why Piracy will always win, The entertainment industry are power tripping control freaks.
What is even worse is they Penalized you for buying the media legally by things like previews, Anti-Piracy PSAs and possibly more than one FBI or international copyright notice that cannot be skipped.
I never understood the purpose of the FBI warning, Its like they are wasting my time to tell me not to pirate something when I gave the IP owners money to watch it.
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| said by Kearnstd:And this is why Piracy will always win, The entertainment industry are power tripping control freaks.
Here's where your argument falls apart - don't people who defend pirates always claim that the studios aren't losing money because pirates don't want to pay for the content in the first place?
So if they have no intention of paying, why should they be concerned about hollywood control freaks? |
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 drewAutomaticPremium
join:2002-07-10
Port Orchard, WA
kudos:6
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Consider this past weekend. I was leveling an alt in WoW  and wanted to watch the championship football games. Now, I have my desk in my living room where I have a HDTV with cable and a DVR. The two games were on channels available to me with my cable package, and if I lived closer to our metro area, OTA for FREE.
However, I didn't want to watch the game on the TV because I wanted to watch it on my second monitor so I would miss less while playing WoW. To do this, I had to resort to finding an illegal stream. Why is this? Why can't I watch content the way I want to, especially when I'm paying for it?
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