mirrorball said:"Basically, people buying overpriced tapes or DVDs and paying all those taxes are just fools. Meanwhile, the crew printing bootlegs actually has a sense for business—they're helping out folks who refuse to hand over cash to big studios that just hoard all that fat profit..."👎 Do you really think pirate video store owners donate their earnings to charity?
And those people opening legitimate video stores without any pirated movies? I guess they do it exclusively to donate their profits to humanitarian causes... 😁
It’s all just—well, you get what you pay for when it comes to music. 😉
Someone with money will come to you and pick up an original, because they want quality.
Someone who just doesn't have the cash for quality? They'll grab a copy.
So what...
How much money goes to Bill Gates versus how much that poor guy got (assuming the movie accurately showed how Bill Gates became who he is today)?
If software prices were actually reasonable, maybe there wouldn't be such a need for copies.
The ones who aren't artists are always the ones profiting from art.
Personally, I don't have anything against pirates. They've let me try out programs I otherwise couldn't access since I can't afford them, and honestly, I don't think they're even worth what they cost; it feels more like a market monopoly.
And if the "film industry" was actually bothered by piracy—like, if it truly threatened them—they would fight back, just like they fight any other competition, by offering better prices and better quality!
