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| They are such a bunch of liars!
I look at it this way,
The people who download movies are the same people who would not have bothered to go see it anyway.
The same goes for music too. Look at those people who have huge multi-gig music collections. Do you honestly think that those same people would have that same collection on hundreds or thousands of CD's if there was no internet? I didn't think so!
The advent of the internet hasn't hit the MPAA or RIAA in the pocket book as much as they would like us to think it has. Those who would go see it in the theater will. Those who want to buy CD's will. The internet just gives those who would not have otherwise gone to see the movie, or bought the CD, that material. It's not taking away customers the way they say it does. It would be like Red Lobster compaining that Mc Donalds is stealing away all of their business.
Adapt or die. They need to embrace the internet rather than fight it. The giant steamroller it has become will otherwise mash them into nothingness. Making low resolution movies and audio available free on the internet would be a smart way to start. I love to download an album before I buy it! It keeps me from buying a $15 lump of %$#@ for just that one good song! If I like it though, I still buy the album. Honestly, I buy FAR MORE movies and music now than I did before the internet. Case in point, Metallica S&M. I heard the song No Leaf Clover on the radio and I really liked it. I searched around and downloaded the first disc of the set. I liked it so much I went out and blew $30 on the 2 disc DVD set. There is no way in hell I would have bought set any other way. I just don't make it a habit of going around and buying expensive concert DVD sets. So there's a $30 sale that they would not have had without piracy. I have purchased countless movies and albums this way that I wouldn't have otherwise.
And come on now! We want the nice DD, DTS, THX, stadium-seating theaters with 10 bazillion square foot screens, and we complain of the ticket prices? Here's an idea, give it a couple months and spring for the $3.99 rental at Hastings or order one from Netflix. Do you think they just go around building multi-million dollar theaters just for the fun of it?
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