Is it possible to sum up the motives for piracy in one cartoon?

[MikeyLSU]

piracy is not right, but things like this are very real.

And what ends up happening is people find out just how easy it is to pirate tv shows/movies that they just keep doing it instead of buying things that may be available. I think some of these companies are driving people to piracy, then people just keep pirating things.

Is it right? no. But does it happen, my guess is yes.

 

[fatpat268]

Oh god, not another argument about the justification and morality of piracy.

There has to be a compilation of every argument and counterargument on the topic somewhere because we're rehashing the same crap over and over.

 

[lxskllr]

There has to be a compilation of every argument and counterargument on the topic somewhere because we're rehashing the same crap over and over.

Pick any thread, on any site. They all go for many pages, and they all say the same thing.

 

[DominionSeraph]

 

[Nebor]

People kind of are voting with their wallets when they pirate. They're opposite buying things. They're taking money away from the people they don't like.

 

[JSt0rm]

or you could just subscribe to hbo and watch it on hbo go.

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol awesome.

 

[z0mb13]

I live overseas and the only way I can watch up to date US tv shows is via torrent

 

[fatpat268]

or you could just subscribe to hbo and watch it on hbo go.

If HBO allowed you to pay $10 a month for an online subscription without already needing a cable subscription, I'm sure a lot of people would.

But Cable companies are afraid of letting go a reason for people to have cable, so they don't allow it. Cable companies are scared of online streaming and will do anything to get rid of it.

It's almost as ridiculous as the ESPN 3 thing... at least with Time Warner. The only way you can get ESPN 3 on Time Warner is if you have a cable package that already includese ESPN. Umm... no thanks. Here's an idea, let me pay extra for the stuff I do want and don't dictate what I can't and can have.

Certain companies are just slow to adapt. I completely sympathize with the cartoon. What people tend to forget is that Netflix and the other sites have curbed piracy quite a bit just by making the content convenient for a decent price.

 

[lxskllr]

If HBO allowed you to pay $10 a month for an online subscription without already needing a cable subscription, I'm sure a lot of people would.

I don't have cable, and will never have cable. I'd like to see a la carte pricing on shows, with no account or subscription required.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

The ads made my day

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

i don't think i've ever thought to myself oh let me download this because i probably won't be able to buy it. it's been i'll just download it because I'm cheap. if it's pay as you want with most of the money going to charity i might even be the guy who donates a penny because I'd rather spend my money on beer.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

The argument that "companies are too damn greedy, so I want their products for free" seems inherently ironic; justifying your own greed by calling someone else out on theirs? That's absurd.

 

[Red Storm]

If you don't like the way these companies are distributing their product, then vote with your wallet AND don't watch it.

These are luxuries at best, there's no excuse.

 

[alent1234]

If HBO allowed you to pay $10 a month for an online subscription without already needing a cable subscription, I'm sure a lot of people would.

But Cable companies are afraid of letting go a reason for people to have cable, so they don't allow it. Cable companies are scared of online streaming and will do anything to get rid of it.

It's almost as ridiculous as the ESPN 3 thing... at least with Time Warner. The only way you can get ESPN 3 on Time Warner is if you have a cable package that already includese ESPN. Umm... no thanks. Here's an idea, let me pay extra for the stuff I do want and don't dictate what I can't and can have.

Certain companies are just slow to adapt. I completely sympathize with the cartoon. What people tend to forget is that Netflix and the other sites have curbed piracy quite a bit just by making the content convenient for a decent price.

a lot of times its the content owners

with ESPN Disney tells the cable operators to include it in the basic package

 

[SlitheryDee]

This is the thing that pisses me off the most. For a while I didn't have any blu ray playing software on my HTPC, so I'd have to rip movies just to watch them. When I finally got a copy of Cyberlink PowerDVD I was flabbergasted by the unskippable bullshit you have to sit through just to get to the movie. It's so much worse that I ever imagined it would be.

 

[alent1234]

i don't know what you people are watching but with the disney blu ray's i have when i pop them into the PS3 i go to Top Menu and skip all the previews and everything else

 

[Aikouka]

If HBO allowed you to pay $10 a month for an online subscription without already needing a cable subscription, I'm sure a lot of people would.

If I remember correctly, HBO is owned by Time Warner, which means I doubt that will ever happen.

 

[rh71]

hey... impossibly proportioned hotties are the shit.

 

[MotF Bane]

I want a show available in HD less than 24 hours after it airs as a digital copy to keep forever on my hard drive. Dear Hollywood, evolve or die.

 

[alent1234]

I want a show available in HD less than 24 hours after it airs as a digital copy to keep forever on my hard drive. Dear Hollywood, evolve or die.

itunes?

 

[Theb]

I started watching Game of Thrones last night so I'm getting a kick out of this thread.

i don't know what you people are watching but with the disney blu ray's i have when i pop them into the PS3 i go to Top Menu and skip all the previews and everything else

That's called FastPlay. Yes, someone invented the ability to skip past all that BS and it was such a novel idea that it has a name.
http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/fastplay/faq.html#Q1

 

[BoberFett]

Exactly. People act like it's their right to watch something. It's not your content so so you have no "right" to watch it whenever and on whatever (on cable, internet, disc, etc) you want. If you don't like the terms the owner provides then don't watch it.

If content owners don't like the terms that society created in copyright, they're free not to create anything. Oh, but they keep bribing congress to extend copyright every time Steamboat Willy comes up for entry into the public domain.

Fuck 'em. Let Hollywood burn.

 

[alent1234]

fastplay is on DVD's, i can do the same thing with blu ray's as well

 

[fatpat268]

a lot of times its the content owners

with ESPN Disney tells the cable operators to include it in the basic package

But other cable companies don't require espn and cable before you can access espn3... afaik.