http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/06/04/new-york-launches-anti-piracy-ad-campaign-your-intelligence-is-in-no-way-insulted/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:07:11 -0500 hourly 1 http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/06/04/new-york-launches-anti-piracy-ad-campaign-your-intelligence-is-in-no-way-insulted/comment-page-1/#comment-723461 Patrik Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:29:31 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=27556#comment-723461 That number is basically "this is how much money we would have made if everybody who downloaded the movie had bought it instead". The problem with that is that you don't necessarily buy something just because you don't download it. And what about everybody who buys the movie AFTER downloading it, who wouldn't have bought it if they hadn't been able to download it? Also, most people have a fixed income. So, most people have a fixed amount of money to spend. What people don't spend on movies, they will spend on something else. So there's no money being "lost". It's just spent elsewhere, and the government still gets it's taxes on that etc.. And this whole "funding terrorism" is just bull****. That number is basically “this is how much money we would have made if everybody who downloaded the movie had bought it instead”. The problem with that is that you don’t necessarily buy something just because you don’t download it. And what about everybody who buys the movie AFTER downloading it, who wouldn’t have bought it if they hadn’t been able to download it? Also, most people have a fixed income. So, most people have a fixed amount of money to spend. What people don’t spend on movies, they will spend on something else. So there’s no money being “lost”. It’s just spent elsewhere, and the government still gets it’s taxes on that etc.. And this whole “funding terrorism” is just bull****.

]]> http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/06/04/new-york-launches-anti-piracy-ad-campaign-your-intelligence-is-in-no-way-insulted/comment-page-1/#comment-723280 Alex Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:51:12 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=27556#comment-723280 Yeah, on street piracy is popular in NYC. They will even come into the subway cars with portable DVD players to show the quality, too. I never buy them, since I frequent torrent sites, but my old roommate would purchase them... Yeah, on street piracy is popular in NYC. They will even come into the subway cars with portable DVD players to show the quality, too. I never buy them, since I frequent torrent sites, but my old roommate would purchase them…

]]> http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/06/04/new-york-launches-anti-piracy-ad-campaign-your-intelligence-is-in-no-way-insulted/comment-page-1/#comment-722982 hawk88 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:33:04 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=27556#comment-722982 People still do on-the-street piracy? I thought that was in china and crap, or between friends using p2p rips. People still do on-the-street piracy? I thought that was in china and crap, or between friends using p2p rips.

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