Comments on: New study shows that many pirates would buy movies if they couldn’t pirate

By: zombiedata

zombiedata — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:43:38 +0000

I will always pirate shit; things are too expensive.
The movie industry needs to stop whining…they make tons of cash. Their movies are too expensive to watch in theatres, and theire DVDs are too expensive new. Sorry, but they need to be cheaper. Even if they were, I still would pirate shit, because its free. I like free.

Music is another problem. Its too damn expensive too. I think music should be free…and then artists can charge for merch and live performances. I make music, thats what I do.

But fuck it. I will always pirate. And if all of us did, they wouldn’t be able to do shit. We should all just continue to do it, and reccomend it to our friends. Get your granny on board. Show her how to DL torrents. Lets create a monster they really are afraid of. EVERYTHING FREE!
Fuck the world.

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:58:21 +0000

If the movies sold here as cheaply as they do overseas (as in China), no one would even bother to pirate them. The average cost of a movie in China is only a dollar or two. The studios still make money even after shipping the movie overseas! So why are Americans paying so much? That is why they pirate, because you can make a copy for pennies.And you can say the same for CD’s too.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:34:13 +0000

I have decided that since i dont go to theaters than they are not losing my business there. The rentals are cheap enough but I usually end up paying late fees. So I have come to the conclusion that the only thing I am hurting is by not paying somebody late fees.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:24:12 +0000

1/3 of what sample size and how was the sample obtained? That is a ludicrous number and is absolutely meaningless absent context.

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:19:47 +0000

New study shows that many pirates would watch free movies if they didn’t have to pirate them.

By: B. Ogus

B. Ogus — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:16:50 +0000

No way, it is way too time consuming and complicated that even 10% of the DVD consumer population copy DVDs. I have had several non-geek people ask me how to do it an by the time I get to the second step their eyes roll back in their heads and they have no idea what I am talking about.

By: David

David — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:14:57 +0000

It’s funny to see all this effort by the MPAA to show how evil mean and profit sucking the American people are, meanwhile we’re paying $10 for a movie ticket that grosses them millions of dollars, then buying the DVD which grosses them hundreds of millions of dollars. If American piracy is so bad, how come no studios are going out of business? How do they afford to pay the actors millions of dollars?

And what about the real problem? China and Russian pirates copy movies for profit, hell you can get a Russian bootleg often days after it’s out in theater. Why not go after the people profiting from this illegal activity and cut our own people some slack? Well the answer is easy really, why waste time and effort going after these foreign pirates for little or no money, when we can sue college gets and grandmas, hell they are LOADEd with bucks right MPAA?

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:59:29 +0000

It is common sence if someone can’t copy a DVD and they like like it.. they will buy if is affordable.

There is no need of a “study” to determine that.

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:59:28 +0000

It is common sence if someone can’t copy a DVD and they like like it.. they will buy if is affordable.

There is no need of a “study” to determine that.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:56:05 +0000

Then there are some of us that only bother to watch movies if we can get them for free. If we can’t pirate, we won’t watch them. That should be taken into consideration as well, although I doubt there are really that many that subscribe to the same way of thinking.

By: mathew

mathew — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:41:20 +0000

Why is this surprising? The stuff I get as a dodgy download isn’t available to buy online. If it was, I’d buy it.

Just put together something like the Amazon MP3 store that lets people buy MPEG-4 video. Until then, stop whining about piracy.