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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've watched a few TV shows through streaming, for the lack of a legal solution to watch it. Can they really blame people for downloading when they don't provide a way to watch the show ? They are aware of the demand (they would need to be blind not to be), they just don't give a damn about people outside the US. They just go complaining about people downloading instead of actually acting to solve the problem by providing us with a way to watch their TV shows.
Lots of people have said they where interested in Hulu, Netflix and such. What have they done : nothing ! Years goes, we're still not allowed there.
They could do something about it, they don't care enough to do it. Sad point is, when TV shows are finally aired in France, most people interested in it have already got it by other means. That lead to "Hey, why would we bother with so few people watching". On that you're right. But is it really our fault ?
Just ask them , they will make things available : you wish ! That's not the way it works.
Books, well, the only books I ever downloaded where Harry potter. Bought the books the day they becomes available.