Asmodeus
join:2004-05-26
Spring Valley, CA
| here's a thought.
stop producing crappy content that people find to be mind-numbing drivel and you won't get people that will pirate your crappy product only to realize that they feel so much better by not hashing their hard earned money into your pockets for a sub-standard sack of crap called your product. |
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Nightfall
My Goal Is To Deny Yours
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join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI
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| said by Asmodeus  :stop producing crappy content that people find to be mind-numbing drivel and you won't get people that will pirate your crappy product only to realize that they feel so much better by not hashing their hard earned money into your pockets for a sub-standard sack of crap called your product. If the product is crappy, then why spend the time downloading it? Why watch or listen to it if it sucks? Sorry, but that excuse is as lame as they come.
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Boogeyman
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join:2002-12-17
Huntsville, AL
| I beleive his point was that it makes more sense to dl the crappy stuff for free to see if its crappy or not. As in, Bill downloads Movie A, he watches it, thinks it sucks, doesnt buy it.
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Asmodeus
join:2004-05-26
Spring Valley, CA
| reply to Nightfall
said by Nightfall :said by Asmodeus :stop producing crappy content that people find to be mind-numbing drivel and you won't get people that will pirate your crappy product only to realize that they feel so much better by not hashing their hard earned money into your pockets for a sub-standard sack of crap called your product. If the product is crappy, then why spend the time downloading it? Why watch or listen to it if it sucks? Sorry, but that excuse is as lame as they come. it's exactly as boogeyman put it. this type of content is held in secret, in general before the general public gets to sample it. be it a movie or music. I can't hear it or watch it unless I've paid for the privilege of doing so. Outside of that, I have no other way of judging for myself on whether this product is worthy of my hard earned dollar or not. So if i can sample this product, even at a diminished level and i find it worthy, then I'll consider that it is worth my money and go out and see it or buy it to listen to it over and over again.
Right now, that's just not the case in much of entertainment. I can go to a grocery store and see the quality of produce as a tangible product and decide if i want to spend my money on it or not. With intangible media, I don't have that luxury, therefore my only avenue of seeing or sampling this product is to actually download it and use my judgement on whether its for me.
Just because technology happens to take advantage of the digital medium that these products are inherently made under doesn't give those who produce it the right withhold my ability to judge whether or not i choose to acquire it. now you could make the argument that i don't have to view or see movies or music and that would be a viable argument. However, i am making the choice to use a technology to bring to me something that normally i would have to pay for sight-unseen which is by itself a ridiculous notion. Would you buy a diamond ring over the internet without ever seeing it? you could, but you would be a fool. the same goes for movies or music. I have no other way to judge for myself, so i have to use whatever facility is at hand to bring it to me.
I just want to be as explicitly clear as possible about this. I'm not condoning piracy, nor am I supporting those against piracy. this is an issue of how producers of this medium and entertainment need to bridge the divide by being able to have potential customers get a chance to know what the product is and not be on the wrong side of the law. i think they have a golden opportunity here, but the problem is, is that their bottom lines will be affected. |
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