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Originally Posted by sbroome
They spend money to create content, which they then recoup when people pay for it. If you don't want to watch their content that's fine, if you do want to watch their content they want you to pay to subscribe. Are they somehow violating your rights with this reasonable request?
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The point of the strip was just that sometimes people will pirate even when they are willing to buy because they can't get what they want legitimately. HBO is free to make whatever business decision they want, but that business decision may result in leaving money on the table and turning potential consumers into pirates.
No one is saying that they have a right to watch Game of Thrones (or whatever), but it's a business reality that people will find the content they want, whether it's available legitimately or not. If HBO decides they only want cable subscribers to have legit access, that's fine, but then increased piracy is going to be one of the costs of that decision.
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Originally Posted by sbroome
The Oatmeal art sucks and I'm sure you could have just provided a link.
And music is readily available legally for fast download and still gets pirated. After all the wannabe lawyers are done hiding behind semantics, people just like free shit.
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People do like "free shit", but more than a few pirates would be willing to buy if they could, or if the legitimate version was comparable to the pirate version (i.e. without DRM). Research fully backs this up, regardless of what your gut feelings on the issue happen to be.