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Originally Posted by HarryT
With the very greatest respect, Moejoe, it is not a "fabrication". It is entirely true to say that the commercial content which is currently available for unauthorised download would not have been released had there not been a commercial market for it, and that the only reason that it can be downloaded is because it has been released for commercial sale. People who download it without paying for it are only able to do so on the backs of those who have paid for it. If nobody paid for that content, it would not exist.
You may well argue that this is an unsustainable economic model, but it is the model that exists at the present time, and it is an undeniable fact that the people who are popularly called "pirates" (I call them something different, as do you) are taking advantage of those who buy that content.
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A couple months ago an interesting movie appeared on the torrent sites along with a small video from the director saying go ahead and share away. There's probably far more market now than there was before for this little indie film out of Iran of all places. The production quality was decent enough, especially considering the budget. The story was good. Yes someone paid to make it, they wanted it made, it wasn't just buisness. Clearly people WANT to create even in the absence of financial motive.
The Movie by the way was called No One Knows About Persian Cats, about some 20-something's trying to form an indie rock group in Tehran.