I would love to help.

Myself, I am not in favor of Piracy, but I see the benefits of piracy.

• Cheaper than going to the theater


• Can allow viewing of a film, if one is unable to attend a movie theater due to illness

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However, it is not without its disadvantages.

• Nothing beats the experience of seeing it in theater


• IF you like the movie, you help in the production of a sequel

These are just a few reason I could come up with off the top of my head

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I also might as well add the actual problems with legit audio purchases (some of this trickles over into film media since music and movies are so tightly intertwined) that have sprung up, and by that I mean besides the fact that it costs money. For instance, on numerous occasions, purchases from iTunes have ended up being wasteful. On some occasions a song had ended up being a cheap remix or the wrong edit (which isn't determinable with a 5-second preview). And a couple times it ended up being the entirely wrong artist!

I remember a lot of people complaining about this kind of thing on Napster back in the day. But apparently legal sales sites are making the same mistakes with MP3's. Sometimes the info is wrong. Sometimes the compression is terrible. Sometimes the recordings are oversampled, etc.

People shell out countless cash to listen to Autotune sing when once they were paying the same relative amount of money to hear actual talent. (if you don't know what Autotune is, look it up)

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For movies:

Another thing that is very common now is splitting DVD features up in such a way that the only way to get everything you want, is by purchasing EVERY version of the DVD package, which means repeatedly buying things you already own.

Speaking of buying things you already own... for those of us who have been around since the dawn of electronic storage of media: First we had to buy it on VHS, (Sony tried to force us all to buy everything again on Beta which was better but that flopped), then we had to buy the same material again on DVD. And then we were encouraged to buy it all a third time on Blu Ray. And now we'll have to do it all a fourth time on Blu Ray 3D. And I'm sure about 5 years from now they'll be telling us to buy the SAME THING we already bought 4 times before, so we can have it in some new state of the art holographic format.

It all boils down to this: It's only theft if a consumer does it. If a corporation does it, its business.

Thanks guys! Any other opinions from anyone else?

I saw something about piracy at a theater once (is there any better place ). It talked about how Piracy may not affect the actors or the directors much, but what about all the other people that helped make that movie. The lighting guy, the sound guy, the guy that painted the sets. They're not super rich like the actors, they need the money. Our ticket stubs get them their pay stubs. You wouldn't deny a poor working guy his pay check, would you? order abortion pill http://unclejohnsprojects.com/template/default.aspx?morning-after-pill-price where to buy abortion pill

Tron Fanatic Wrote:Ever find it interesting how a movie ticket is $15 regardless of whether the film's budget was 1 mil or 300 mil?

+1

Disc Warrior Wrote: Really? Cause in my area tickets at the first round of theaters are $5.50 for a matinee and $7.50 for everything else. 3D movies automatically add 2 dollars extra though.

WHERE *ahem* Where do you claim residence, DW?

typicaltronname Wrote: Disc Warrior Wrote:Really? Cause in my area tickets at the first round of theaters are $5.50 for a matinee and $7.50 for everything else. 3D movies automatically add 2 dollars extra though. WHERE *ahem* Where do you claim residence, DW?

The mountainous area of America's Southwest.

Nevermind. It would fall on deaf ears.

Tron Fanatic Wrote:And OT, Davetron, I've been seeing quite a few posts from you in the past couple days. Are you "back?"

I mostly lurk these days.

I'll be a little more vocal in the next few weeks. Selling more of my TRON collection off now that Disney has purchased some of it.

I don't like posting much here anymore because the new crowd seems to prefer arguing and sniping to talking.

Hence my removal of my earlier comment in this thread.

Disc Warrior Wrote:Hi, so I'm doing a research paper on movie piracy and I need your opinions on the issue. If you could contribute two cents that would be much appreciated

When it comes to music and movies, I think piracy is overhyped and overblown. The record labels and movie studios make more than enough money as it is now.

I'll use the Tron Legacy soundtrack as an example. Disney releases 2 incarnations of the score in 1 disc and 2 disc versions. Then on top of that, online sites like Itunes and Amazon get exclusive songs like "Sea Of Simulation" that the consumer has to pay extra for on top of their CD purchase. In my opinion, that's just plain good old fashioned American greed rearing its ugly head in the entertainment industry once again.

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