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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
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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And in those cases I understand, because a lot of old people in entertainment haven't adjusted to the way people consume media now. But if there IS a website where you can easily access the content, and people's complaint is just that it isn't specificlaly done the way they'd like, that's not the same as complaining that it isn't available "legitimately". And if you don't want to pay for the whole thing, I find it hard to believe that none of you know a person with HBO who'd let you use their account to login and watch HBO go. Maybe you can even give your friend 20 bucks for it or something. As I've said in other threads, we've never had such ease getting entertainment, and there's still never been so much whining. It's amazing.