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Originally Posted by braisler
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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This is what pisses me off the most... The MPAA ads about the starving set designer who is losing out because of people downloading their movies. Um - aren't we the ones actually PAYING to see the movie? Why the fuck should we have to sit through anti-piracy ads? Egads - sometimes these marketing drones are so incredibly stupid it defies logic.
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