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Originally Posted by stonetools
The problem here is that there is the easy solution, and the right solution. Sure , its easy to cheat the artist by downloading from a torrent. (That's what you are doing, no matter how you gussy it up). The hard way is to contact the retailer, artist, or publisher and ask for them to make it available. Once the rights holder is made aware of demand for the product, the invisible hand of the market goes to work to deliver the product, not only to you, but to a wider public.
Downloading from a torrent might be an easy private solution, but it has unsatisfactory knock on effects. For one, it might make the rights holder want to turn the security up to 11 by instituting top level encryption. That would make Apprentice Alf's tools as useless as a butter knife against diamond, but it would drive up prices and f### things up for the rest of us.
An even worse effect would be to make it unprofitable for the artist to make new product. You can't download an new Asian movie if the movie maker doesn't make it. You like Asian movies, make it so its worth their while for the movie maker to keep making them.
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I try. My problem is that many of the movies I like are not in "print" anywhere. Late 60s and early 70s films made by companies that no longer exist. Most of the actors are no longer around either. Fortunately, for whatever reason, more current Asian films are available in the US unaltered. So I can buy or rent them.