The only thing I agree with in this article is that film / music industry products often do not provide a good service. They are riddled with copy protection and unskippable ad's which punish people who actually buy the damn things.
You spent an hour to go to the shop's and buy it / waited a day for delivery
He spent 15 minutes downloading it.
You have to sit though ad's you cannot skip.
You have to watch a 39 second anti-piracy ad on a legitimate DVD.
You have to wait 30 seconds for the title menu to load because some moron decided to show clips of the film you want to fecking play before it appears!
He is already 5 minutes into the film.
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Its horrible.
As for the rest of the arguments I disagree.
1) Because you don't use my money well
It doesn't matter how they spend there money. They are provided a product that you want. If they didn't exist the product wouldn't exist.
"Everything else was probably diluted in stuffs I don't need: packaging, distribution, transport, marketing,"
If they didn't market you wouldn't have heard about it. If they didn't pay for distribution you wouldn't be able to get it. If they didn't pay for packaging you would receive a scratched, perhaps broken CD...
2) Because you are messing with my life
"Worst, you will use my money to sue me in court because I would have downloaded something that I didn't want to buy anyway!"
Yeah.. your like stealing their stuff? Why shouldn't they come after you? If you don't want it don't download. If you download it.. don't pretend you didn't want it.
"With the change left, you will pay lobbyists to ensure the governments make stupid and dangerous laws."
The politicians pass the law's. I see nothing wrong with the music / film industry lobbying to protect their interest's. Where it gets scary is when politicians act on the side of lobbyists without considering the wider picture.
3) Because you are destroying the whole society
I agree there are problems but I completely disagree that these problems are all caused by the film and music industry. I didn't know EMI signed teachers for their lectures?
Finally...
"If I'm a pirate, it's not to have some cheap music. It is because the time has come for you to fuck off. In your arrogance, you are hurting the fundamental value of freedom only to save your little petty interests."
I guess big hollywood movies and the majority of career musicians can fuck off as well aye?
Take this ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6xj4jS8cho
This the truth...
You spent an hour to go to the shop's and buy it / waited a day for delivery He spent 15 minutes downloading it.
You have to sit though ad's you cannot skip. You have to watch a 39 second anti-piracy ad on a legitimate DVD. You have to wait 30 seconds for the title menu to load because some moron decided to show clips of the film you want to fecking play before it appears!
He is already 5 minutes into the film.
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Its horrible.
As for the rest of the arguments I disagree.
1) Because you don't use my money well
It doesn't matter how they spend there money. They are provided a product that you want. If they didn't exist the product wouldn't exist.
"Everything else was probably diluted in stuffs I don't need: packaging, distribution, transport, marketing,"
If they didn't market you wouldn't have heard about it. If they didn't pay for distribution you wouldn't be able to get it. If they didn't pay for packaging you would receive a scratched, perhaps broken CD...
2) Because you are messing with my life
"Worst, you will use my money to sue me in court because I would have downloaded something that I didn't want to buy anyway!"
Yeah.. your like stealing their stuff? Why shouldn't they come after you? If you don't want it don't download. If you download it.. don't pretend you didn't want it.
"With the change left, you will pay lobbyists to ensure the governments make stupid and dangerous laws."
The politicians pass the law's. I see nothing wrong with the music / film industry lobbying to protect their interest's. Where it gets scary is when politicians act on the side of lobbyists without considering the wider picture.
3) Because you are destroying the whole society
I agree there are problems but I completely disagree that these problems are all caused by the film and music industry. I didn't know EMI signed teachers for their lectures?
Finally...
"If I'm a pirate, it's not to have some cheap music. It is because the time has come for you to fuck off. In your arrogance, you are hurting the fundamental value of freedom only to save your little petty interests."
I guess big hollywood movies and the majority of career musicians can fuck off as well aye?