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Originally Posted by sbroome
Technology shouldn't dictate people's morality. I find that with technology (aka price aggregators and websites where you can buy stuff on sale constantly) it's very easy to legally purchase entertainment.
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I wish that it would be so but in reality I can legally buy only about 10% of works that I am interested in and which are available worldwide. And I am probably very generous, it is more closer to 1%.
Of course, tastes are different. Some people are fine with whatever they can watch on cable TV. But if you want to read or watch something available in other languages or in other country, then the absurdity of the control becomes clearly evident. Often piracy just fills the gap of the market failure.
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If anything the internet is a reason NOT to engage in piracy. One of the sites I follow notified me when the entire run of BSG was available on blu-ray for 80 bucks. What more do people want exactly? After all the cute semantics the reality is that people just want a bunch of free stuff, this isn't a civil rights movement.
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Been there, done that. So often they simply don't ship to Latvia at all. And when you have something less popular than BSG then it is a game of pure luck. Besides, who uses DVDs anymore when everyone has fast internet connection.
Some guys circumvent georestrictions by VPN connection to watch US Netflix subscription. It is still considered piracy but it also proves that at least in some cases it is not about getting free stuff.