Quote:
Originally posted by Cynthetiq
Which is how Blockbuster and Hollywood Video can come out with HUNDREDS of copies of a movie, because they are tracked, a percentage of them saved for after rental resale, then the rest are destroyed to keep scarcity.
|
Actually, i think those are the copies you are always seeing at those stores in the "previously viewed" sections. They buy 200 copies of Matrix Reloaded, then when the rental madness slows down, they sell off 190 of the copies as "previously viewed".
As for the stealing aspect, it's simple. People are fucking cheap. They don't want to pay for anything, so they'll rationalize stealing. And this has only started since the advent of p2p. People feel "safe" about stealing on the internet. They can do it from behind an alias and can feel pretty anonymous. Where were all you industry haters before the internet? Were you out there shoplifting CD's and movies so you could "stick it to the man"? You may have serious anti-music/movie industry feelings, but you're all fucking cowards if your way of "bringing down the system" is to sit on your ass at a computer and download shitty bootlegs of their products.