The industry wants people to stop downloading movies from P2P networks, but also wants us to put up with ads at the beginning of the movie that we are paying to see. The industry argues that they have to put the ads at the start of the movies to recoup the money lost from the people stealing their content over the internet. Customers are driven away by the ads and may turn to the internet to download that movie.
Does this remind anyone else of the argument that software manufacturers were making years ago about their prices being so high because of piracy? Lower your price to a reasonable level and more people would buy the software instead of copying it. Not exactly the same scenario, I realize, but I think that there are parallels.
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