Don't be too eager to shed tears for the industries in general. Remember how it was before piracy existed (or at least good digital quality piracy) like back in the 80's where if you wanted one song in an album, you had to buy the whole album and nobody defended the consumer's interests cause you paid way too much or too expensive.
You heard a certain movie was a hit in America and you burned to see it here in continental Europe ? Well if you were lucky, 2 or 3 years later it was on the cinemas here. You don't like the wait ? screw you cause you don't have a choice. You loved a show ? had to be lucky to catch whatever episodes you could on TV and screw you if you wanted to see it in the proper order (from ep 1 to the last) you watched whatever episode your TV channel was willing to show and at the time they wanted. You wanted to buy the VHS of a certain show ? you had to pay the insane price they asked for it, season by season and with a crappy quality (I had the X-files on VHS for which I paid an insane price and the picture was wobbly as good old magnetic tapes could be when poorly recorded). And so on.
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Originally Posted by carld
Sadly, I have to agree. Some (too many) people just refuse to pay for things that they can download. Sure, they cloak it in blah blah blah about "freedom" and all that. But it always comes down to the fact that stealing is cheap (free) and easy.
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