Generation Free: Piracy, distribution, and entertainment

http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html

That's not a reason to record bootleg copies of a cartoon >_>
People have been paying for movies since the early 1900s
Movies have never been unnaffordable. The prices may seem ridiculous to some, but that doesn't mean it can't be paid for. People out there with $200 sneakers, ipads, smartphones and all that **** but wont bother buying an album?

I think if you RENT a movie from a kiosk, then you should put up with the BS before you watch the movie.
But, if you PURCHASE a disk, then it should give you the stupid FBI splash screen, AND THAT'S IT, right to the movie.
Maybe put the "coming attractions" in the menu, but it's a pain to sit through 5-15 minutes of BS before you get to the
movie, which is another reason I try to wait for movies to hit Redbox before I watch them...in the theater, not only do you
have to put up with *****s yapping through the picture, but you have 15 minutes worth of commercials & trailers before the
d*mn movie starts.

you know, when people have 20 albums on their Whatever, that turns out to be 200 dollars. I cant hand out 200 dollars for 200 songs. Nor do I want to when the artists are getting what, 5 percent likely? Id gladly pay 4 dollars an album though.

im Still going fine with youtube/spotify tho, dont need to pirate.

Bitches at evil invisible internet takers while posting cartoons from The Oatmeal without crediting Matthew Inman.

Create something again so I can not pirate it. Your words are holier than your actions.

@Coppersloane---

Stop blaming Bush.

When I first saw this post I saw the author name as 'by julio franco' was it or am I losing my memory?

Personally, I I think you bring up some extremely good points here. People bring up the argument against piracy, and then with conditions like you cite, wonder why people pirate.

Before anyone gets the idea that I am in favor of piracy, I will say I am not at all in favor of piracy.

That said, I think your post brings up an enormous point, that is, the lack of being able to choose what channels you want for a less than all fee. There are many stations that I never watch in my Dish package, however, I have to pay for them even though I could care less about them. I find it ironic that Dish is in the same position that they are placing their customers with their ongoing refusal to carry MSG's music video stations as a prerequisite to carrying MSG's sports programming. Dish, in the mean time, has refused to offer any replacement sports network or give a discount to those in the northeast that would have MSG as their local sports network even though their standard packages cite inclusion of a local sports network in their package.

So, my wife and I are paying almost $84 / month for perhaps 10 programs that we watch, and we are considering dropping Dish in favor of legal, online outlets for all the material we watch. At $84/month, it would be far cheaper for us to buy each of the shows that we watch on DVD/Blu-ray when they are available than it is for us to continue to subscribe to Dish. It is just common economic sense to look at it this way, and no longer buy into the endless upsells.

While I do not agree with the piracy, I am sick of the endless upsells that cable/satellite providers use to squeeze every single penny out of the consumer's pocket that they possibly can. IMHO, this is also stealing be it legal stealing.

Until articles like this consider all sides of the equation, I think viewpoints will remain unbalanced.

@Wiyo
Where they do bring up a valid point as do you. The problem is you want your way. The cable companies do not care that you dont watch those 10 channels. There are contracts that are signed that dictate where a particular channel is placed. You guys scream its too expensive. Point your ire towards the real bandits. The actual Channels themselves. CNN Fox TNT. They all sign contracts with the cable providers. Those contracts do two things. 1. It keeps some VERY sub par channels on. 2. It forces the cable companies to "buy" those sub par channels if they want the major channels. And if the cable companies do not wish to play ball, the cable channels themselves will "get the word out" by making the cable company themselves look like the bad guy.

I was using explorer and *shurgs*have no idea why it doesn't work with this site. Do you really think I'd ignore spell check underlines? That's more believable? Yeah .. right .. beat up on the dyslexic girl .. You're such a noble big man for it. *rolls eyes* Can you go any lower?

So why not buy the one song. In this day and age of music that is totally doable. Again ... another lame excuse.

This is why I get all my stuff from Hulu. $7.99/mth and I get movies, fav shows and all that. Yes there are ads, but hey. Ads are everywhere.

It is not theft, it is not stealing, it is not piracy, it is copyright infringement and it is illegal. How much money the artists have or make or how many FBI screens you have to watch is irrelevant to the above fact (although having the screen on bought video's seems like preaching to the converted). For movies I use Netflix, no ads, a whole $10 a month, they have some TV shows on now (I have no TV, it is not worth the money and to sit through 17 minutes of ads per hour of programming). For other sports I buy a videopass that allows commercial free watching plus archives of previous races. Music, if you like them, support them as they are already getting bent over so hard and @#@% up the rear it is not funny. Plus you get the booklet and the great sound quality. MP3's and flac suck

All I'm saying is if you are going to infringe copyrighted works, you are going to do it, but just don't tell me you are some kind of social rebel, or activist. BTW copyright infringement also occurs if you photocopy too many pages out of a book or magazine, if you borrow CD's/DVD's from your local library and rip them to your computer etc. It's not just limited to music and movies. And again, your life is your life, if you want to infringe you will, but don't bs me and tell me what a great person you are and the great service you are doing for humanity as you torrent or do whatever else it is.