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Originally Posted by _wtf_
(Post 35424800)
The Avengers had the most successful first weekend in US movie history with over $207 million. It broke the record set by Harry Potter last year by more than $30 million. It must be getting awful hard for the MPAA to keep a straight face when they force ISP's to block TPB because it's killing the movie industry, even the UK figures are quite amazing.
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Got to love it when people use an exceptional circumstance as a general guideline.....
If all movies made the sort of money that the Harry Potter series or Avengers Assemble made, the producers would have a weaker fiscal case (but not ethical, imho, but that doesn't seem to bother many people) - however, as we all know, this is not the case (John Carter, Catwoman, Cutthroat Island, and Final Fantasy for example....).
Also, what people seem to forget is that most programmes are funded by sales to broadcasters, and the broadcasters are funded (usually) by the advertising revenue they raise when people watch these programmes on TV, so if the programmes are downloaded, and then not watched on television, the ratings go down, the advertisers pull out, the series gets canned - so, in essence, keep up the downloading and have less TV series (except
*shudder* Reality TV series, which are cheap to produce).
However, in the end, it is an, imho, ethical decision - for a long time I wrote business software (IBM Mid-range, payroll, accounts, logistics, etc); if someone had just decided to copy that and use it without our permission, I, and hundreds of others, would have been out of a job, and I have carried that viewpoint over to the present day - if I want something, I pay for it (unless the producer/copyright owner states that I can have it for free).
At the end of the day, we are talking about media (TV, music, films, etc) - not basic sustenance issues like shelter, food, water, warmth.
The over explosion of freetarding has given corporations and governments the stick with which to beat the internet with - thanks a lot, guys, for this application of the law of unintended consequences. As Robert A Heinlein stated, "
TANSTAAFL" - everntually, someone has to pay.
YMMV.
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Originally Posted by _wtf_
(Post 35424812)
Nope. What I am saying that civil liberties that have taken hundreds of years to achieve should not be thrown out the window because of an industry that gets laws passed by clearly distorting and misrepresenting the facts to the legislators and the governments.
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And of course, the people doing the illegal downloading have no responsibility whatsoever.......:dozey:
