Originally posted by: PieIsAwesome
I have never bought any music or movies.
Most I have done is rent movies. Now all I buy are the occasional game.
Without any offense meant, you should realize this means that you are 'voting' for your money that no good music of movies be made (other than the ad-spported consumption).
That's really the way to look at it. If you spend hundreds on DirecTV, you are saying "I want Rupert Murdoch to have more power." If you subscribe to the tiny distributor Ironweed Films who mails amonthly DVD of documentaries, you are saying "I want more indie documentaries". If you don't give any money to movies, you are saying you don't want movies made or shown. Etc. If you buy the product made in China over the one made in the USA, you are saying you want the products made in China.
We vote evey two years for politics, and multiple times each day withou our dollars.