Well - I just downloaded this.

Thing is, corporations will always try to make money. But I'd say we don't really need them anymore. Artists can promote and sell their own music and find huge audiences online these days, so there's just no need for labels and all these middle-men taking a piece of the cake.
The music industry as a whole might not make as much money anymore, but the actual CONTENT CREATORS will. (Though it'll be shared by much more people, since all artists are able to sell their music. And I think this is a good thing.)

This is a load of rubbish. DVDs and Blu-Rays are cheap...maybe not in Britain, but that's because of the very high taxes you pay (which pays for all the services your government provides).

Looking at it in the U.S., a typical CD costs between $10 and $14. For reference, that's less than a CD cost 25 years ago. If you adjust for inflation, it's much less.

Movies are more expensive, in theaters, but the price of a movie on disk is the same, or less than it was at any other time (not counting when they're sold as loss leaders, which is what etailers did throughout the late 90s early 2000s).

If you don't like a movie, you have yourself to blame. Read a review. It's not that hard to figure out what movies you'll like and which you won't. Sure there will be an occasional movie where you get it wrong, but using that logic, if you go to a restaurant order some food you've never had and dislike it, you shouldn't have to pay for it.

The reality is that people buy less of the music they like. They do buy from bands they absolutely love, but if you're a band that the person just likes a bit, they'll download your music and never buy it, though they will listen to it every now and then.

It's DL hello!

You proudly boast about downloading whatever you please, enjoying whatever products you want, paying only when you feel like it. Then you have the audacity to accuse the industry you're exploiting of being greedy?

Hypocrisy.

Markets may give you free samples of olives and cheese, but you don't get to take a car load of any products in store, free of charge, to eat first and then decide if you want to pay for it later.

Pirating films and music is not the same as sampling olives. Not even close. It's more like if you were to do your week's grocery shopping, and then walk out of the store without handing over a cent, eating and enjoying all of the products you just acquired at your leisure, and THEN contemplating whether or not you feel like giving something back to the people you just stole from.


If you want to sample a film before deciding whether or not you want to see it, there are these things called trailers, some call them previews, and there are written reviews that you can read online as well. You do not have the right to acquire, possess, and view the whole film before deciding whether or not you want to pay (if you feel like it).

Piracy is an abomination and a spit in the face of everybody who works hard creating the content you so recklessly steal. People with bills to pay, families to feed, children to clothe and educate. From production to publishing, catering, to marketing, to distribution, to retail, and everything in between. Your downloading is an assault on every single one of them.

The problem is, people like you seem to think they can take whatever they want, whenever they want, with no regard for the working people behind the products you so willfully thieve. Filmmakers and artists have a right to be paid for their work, just like anybody else in a job, even the workers at your local super market. Do you have a job? I'm sure you expect to be paid for the work you do too, right?

Your own selfish desire to be entertained freely comes at the cost of sweat and tears of others. You're in no position whatsoever to accuse any corporation, big or small, of greed. The next time you're in a furniture store, find a mirror, pay real money for it, and then look into it for a while.

The thing I always liked about places like Napster and the like was simply that you could get things that you can't get in stores. I'm not talking about pre-releases or leaked copies, that kind of thing. I'm talking about albums from 20 years ago that no one sells anymore that the only way you can get them is places like napster. Napster opened the doorto the internet and let in Itunes, Spotify and Pandora... they took the hit to get music out there that we can't get, it amazes me still that they did so much and yet no one in the industry would probably give them the credit owed

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Back then, we used to copy cassette-to-cassette, that was the only way here in my country to get actual good music. Here we lived under a cruel right-wing military dictatorship, and hundreds of films were banned (even Fiddler on the Roof (1971)!) and most bands wasn't distributed here.
Now is way easier for the young people, they don't have to wait until someone get the cassette or vhs from another country, they just type something on their browsers.

Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language IMDb = Catch-22