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Old 06-15-2012, 05:08 PM   #16
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This article has definitely a point. In the meantime watch how you are a pirate !
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Old 06-15-2012, 05:59 PM   #17
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I liked his opening salvo. No, couldn't possibly be all those other reasons...
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Old 06-15-2012, 06:21 PM   #18
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Amusing.

FBI warnings: "Anyway, since these warnings are ineffective, the obvious solution is to have more of them." Probably the same approach we can expect from book publishers, extra layers of DRM anyone?
Win ^^^^
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Old 06-15-2012, 06:58 PM   #19
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It's the 2-DVD TV miniseries Sinatra, from Warner. The anti-piracy clip uses a scene from Casablanca with Rick and Ilsa. ("Rick is upset. The woman he loves is pirating DVDs ..."; "Making time with Victor's girl: good. Pirating DVDs: bad.") It's cute and clever and unexpected.
Was it this one:
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Old 06-15-2012, 07:41 PM   #20
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Yes, that's the one!
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Old 06-18-2012, 04:27 PM   #21
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hahahaha, love it
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Old 06-18-2012, 05:53 PM   #22
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I haven't seen a movie worth pirating recently. The last movie that I actually enjoyed enough not to walk out of, was "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" and I couldn't imagine anyone pirating that. Piracy seems to be limited to movies that teens and twenty-something like.
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Old 06-19-2012, 09:20 AM   #23
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I haven't seen a movie worth pirating recently. The last movie that I actually enjoyed enough not to walk out of, was "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" and I couldn't imagine anyone pirating that. Piracy seems to be limited to movies that teens and twenty-something like.
Most people pirate movies/musics/etc because they can't afford to buy the stuff, so they basically steal it.
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Old 06-19-2012, 01:38 PM   #24
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Most people pirate movies/musics/etc because they can't afford to buy the stuff, so they basically steal it.
I think people take the stuff because it's available.
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Would you have said "a cute lass" I 'd second that.
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(Secret of Monkey Island reference.)
For that you would would need a three-headed monkey.
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Old 06-20-2012, 02:58 AM   #26
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Would you have said "a cute lass" I 'd second that.
I'd take as many of those as I could get.
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Most people pirate movies/musics/etc because they can't afford to buy the stuff, so they basically steal it.
People take it because they are dishonest. They're the sort of people who are probably dishonest in other areas of their life, too. "Not being able to afford it" is a complete red herring; nobody "needs" to watch the latest film, or have the latest bestselling book.
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People take it because they are dishonest. They're the sort of people who are probably dishonest in other areas of their life, too. "Not being able to afford it" is a complete red herring; nobody "needs" to watch the latest film, or have the latest bestselling book.
That seems to me to be a stupid reason and not one people uses. I mean do they want to maximize their dishonesty. So they will do dishonest things not because of the effect but just because to do dishonest things. That is obviously absurd.
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That seems to me to be a stupid reason and not one people uses. I mean do they want to maximize their dishonesty. So they will do dishonest things not because of the effect but just because to do dishonest things. That is obviously absurd.
I don't follow you, Tommy. It is a dishonest act to illegally download, therefore, by definition, it is only dishonest people who do it. Honest people are not (by definition) dishonest.
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