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quatrixPremium
join:2005-02-11
South FL
kudos:2 | The usual anti-authority, pro-piracy bias One man's "snooping" is another man's law enforcement. Funny how some people think they have the right to steal if they disagree with the way a company chooses to distribute, market, and sell its own property. I don't like the way the grocery store makes me buy a bag of potatoes instead of selling them individually, so I'll just take the whole bag when nobody's looking. And then invent new technology to let me shoplift anonymously. | | |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | except you can buy potatoes by the each. Any supermarket will have a bin of them.
Anyway I know that was just an example, The problem is people are justified in not wanting more snooping because it rarely if ever ends up being used ethically, After all once you give someone the keys to the back door how long until they are planting evidence or how long until they are nailing people for things that are not crimes such as using VPNs to get around regional restrictions.
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Viper359Premium
join:2006-09-17
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Except you miss the point, it's not the studio's property, ITS MINE. I bought the movie, and should be free to do with it as I please. According to your logic, the company is well within its right to say I can only watch my blu ray movie on one player, ever. I cannot walk to another blu ray player in my house and watch it.
You also use the wrong potato analogy. Does the supermarket or farmer tell me what to do with said bag of potatoes after I buy it? No! If I want to make mash potatoes, I can, if I want to shoot a potato out of my potato gun, I can. I bought the potatoes, I am free to do with it what I please.
You and your elk also forget, I didn't buy a blu ray at $30.00 a pop, I bought the movie. The fact it's on a blu ray disc is irrelevant. I bought 24 potatoes, the fact it is in a bag is irrelevant. You paid for the potatoes, like you paid for the specific movie title. The transport mechanism for it is irrelevant.
Studios only offer a SD digital copy, even though I bought an HD copy! Some studio's only allow you to download a digital copy until a certain date. I just bought a brand new blu ray, and that date is well past.
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 RRedlineRated RPremium
join:2002-05-15
Williamsport, PA | reply to quatrix
said by quatrix:One man's "snooping" is another man's law enforcement. Funny how some people think they have the right to steal if they disagree with the way a company chooses to distribute, market, and sell its own property. I don't like the way the grocery store makes me buy a bag of potatoes instead of selling them individually, so I'll just take the whole bag when nobody's looking. And then invent new technology to let me shoplift anonymously.
It's BECAUSE of pirates that we can now legally purchase digital content. Do you think iTunes would exist if it weren't for music piracy years ago? Would services like Netflix exist?
Let's also keep things in perspective. Piracy is pretty light compared to just a few years ago (the movie studios are still raking in tons of cash), and it's because there are legal and reasonable ways to obtain digital content now. If the studios had their way, we would still be buying shiny plastic discs, and the digital content revolution would never happen.
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 maartenaElmoPremium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
kudos:1 | reply to quatrix
said by quatrix:One man's "snooping" is another man's law enforcement. Funny how some people think they have the right to steal if they disagree with the way a company chooses to distribute, market, and sell its own property. I don't like the way the grocery store makes me buy a bag of potatoes instead of selling them individually, so I'll just take the whole bag when nobody's looking. And then invent new technology to let me shoplift anonymously. If I buy a bag of potatoes however, I then OWN the bag of potatoes. I can decide to split up the potatoes, give three to my neighbor, four to my grandma, and let a few potatoes grow spuds on them and put those in the ground to grow more bags of potatoes myself. And in the fall, I might have 8 bags worth of potatoes.
There is no potato grower conglomerate coming to knock on my door saying I need to pay them to use those potatoes to grow more potatoes in my back yard. They are MY potatoes, and if I want to turn those potatoes in to MORE potatoes of the same kind, I can do so. There is no "stealing" from the potatoes farmers, and I am "copying" my own potatoes from the "master potato" I bought in the store.
When I buy a movie, I want to be able to see that movie on ANY device I please, including taking it on the road on my laptop when I travel abroad. (Long international flights are boring and the entertainment offered isn't always the best). Digital files make that possible, but they rig them in any way possible to prevent you from watching it on multiple devices.
THAT is the bigger problem here. I'm not looking to setup a garage shop to sell movies (nor potatoes for that matter), but I want the freedom to use my LEGALLY PURCHASED MOVIES any way I see fit, and not have some company tell me I can't extract the movie from blu-ray and put it on my laptop or portable media player so I am not restricted to JUST the blu-ray player in the living room.
And since the movie industry is desperately trying to prevent that in any way possible, combined with how easy it is to download movies, I can see why people re-download movies they already own (plus get a few they don't) for their next big trip or business travel.
The more DRM/Restrictions the entertainment industry puts in, the deeper the hole they are digging for themselves.
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