How do you know why people pirate things? Everyone's reasoning is the same, huh?
Now your arguments are just becoming plain old stupid.
People don't pirate things because they "don't care" about it, unless they're compulsive hoarders.
They mostly do it because they're selfish thieves.
The biggest thing that would hold me back is the risk of it being shut down because the US DOJ has it out for Kim Dotcom.
How do you know why people pirate things? Everyone's reasoning is the same, huh?
Distinction is here: I buy your artwork. I then copy it and sell copies in Kluckkluckstan where you don't sell.
When you come after me claiming I stole your art, I simply product the receipt saying I bought a copy, case would be dismissed. Add on to this that one is a criminal matter vs a civil matter.
Around and around the sun flower we go.
He's not saying it's the right thing to do, but rather the studios are run by dinosaurs that are stuck in the 80s. If they offered 1080p streaming on their website for each episode and charged a fee so people could watch it....I can assure you that piracy of that show would cut in half overnight.
Someone in Norway that has easy access to piracy...it's very tempting to download a 1080p copy illegally rather than wait a year to buy an entire seasons of DVD at a crap load of money only to find out the show sucks.
What studio's need to be is pretty damn easy. Steam their shows from their websites for a fee. They'd make a crap load of money.
Someone hires you to clean out your garage. When you're done, he refuses to pay you.
Is that theft?
So you, as a company, keep your current model which isn't working because you *think* they won't pay anyway?And then people would justify their pirating actions by saying the charge to much.
Content providors expend a great amount of money. They like all businesses want to profit from their hardwork. They would likely charge more than a lot of you folks would be willing to spend, so you'd just continue pirating.
I've been listening to these bullshit arguments for 20 years.
Someone made that picture of a cheeseburger. He has the right to determine what happens to it. If he decides to sell it for $X then your valid choices are to pay $X, not have the picture, or work some other deal with the artist.
If you want it and take it without paying the $X lost to the artist is REAL cost.
You want to end piracy, get the studios to start pricing their products reasonably
Unless someone threatens to kill you or your family if you don't watch "Obscure Media 3" in the next two hours, there is no excuse to pirate.
Your hypo is not theft but it is however civil copyright infringement and criminal infringement with punishment depending on how much you sold.
that they might cooperate with law enforcement. But big deal
Since you're such a big fan of theft, why not tell us all your home address? We can come over and help ourselves.
Also this whole content blah blah blah is bs. People that make quality products rake in a fortune (they're still setting records!). People use piracy as an excuse when their crap move, music, and/or game doesn't sell for crap because it is crap.
I've been listening to these bullshit arguments for 20 years.
I'm not much in the mood for this after the 1,000th time, but copyright infringement isn't theft. Saying otherwise is being willfully ignorant at best, or knowingly using incorrect terminology to influence opinion at worst.
Uh yeah, that was my point. This was in reply to someone who cannot see the distinction between theft and infringement. I have tons of hypotheticals that show the difference. I suspect if I actually felt the need to, I could find the case law also.
Here is another one: You paint a picture and hang it up. You never intend to sell it but Bob comes in and photos it and starts selling it.
You wouldn't be able to accuse Bob of theft since the original is still at your house.
Who says he has the right to determine what happens to it? Sure, it may seem morally that he does... but guess, what, he doesn't. This is evident by the pirating culture we live in. Beyond that, the $x lost to the artist is NOT real because he would never have had that money to begin with.
The things i want to buy, i buy. The things I would never buy in the first place...Content creators work to create content. That content has a price on it. Some of that price is paid to the creators, which is what enables them to make it, as opposed to, say, working at K-Mart.
Taking that content without paying for it absolutely is theft, every bit the same as if someone took dollar bills out of your wallet.
The things i want to buy, i buy. The things I would never buy in the first place...
Take for example, photoshop. now, im in the minority and purchased photoshop, because i use it professionally. On the other hand, lets say i wanted to listen to a song or watch a show that i was only moderately interested in...and never would buy in the first place. Since I never would have bought it anyway, its nothing like stealing.