Comments on: Who said everyone who watches pirate video is lazy? Mike did http://www.webtvwire.com/who-said-everyone-who-watches-pirate-video-is-lazy-mike-did/ The Business of Internet Television and Video Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:00:13 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Illusion http://www.webtvwire.com/who-said-everyone-who-watches-pirate-video-is-lazy-mike-did/comment-page-1/#comment-39776 Illusion Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:57:02 +0000 http://www.webtvwire.com/who-said-everyone-who-watches-pirate-video-is-lazy-mike-did/#comment-39776 You hit the nail square on the head! At current sales rates, if the distributors sold movies for five dollars each, sales would go up by 68%, vitually eliminating the lost sales from piracy, and simulatniously lowering piracy. In affect, cutting prices by 75% would actually INCREASE profit. Goes to show just how greedy the movie industry really is. And thats figuring there only making 1 DOLLAR off of each sale (due to costs of production, advertising, and distro.) Just blew the movie industries ENTIRE frikken argument out of the water =D XD ;) You hit the nail square on the head!
At current sales rates, if the distributors sold movies for five dollars each, sales would go up by 68%, vitually eliminating the lost sales from piracy, and simulatniously lowering piracy.

In affect, cutting prices by 75% would actually INCREASE profit.
Goes to show just how greedy the movie industry really is.
And thats figuring there only making 1 DOLLAR off of each sale (due to costs of production, advertising, and distro.)

Just blew the movie industries ENTIRE frikken argument out of the water =D XD ;)

]]> By: Strange_Famous http://www.webtvwire.com/who-said-everyone-who-watches-pirate-video-is-lazy-mike-did/comment-page-1/#comment-34275 Strange_Famous Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:04:33 +0000 http://www.webtvwire.com/who-said-everyone-who-watches-pirate-video-is-lazy-mike-did/#comment-34275 The amount of work involved in downloading, encoding, and burning a high quality pirated DVD is immense. Its not like going to the video store and layin down 20 bucks for a DVD, it takes hours of work per video. Let alone the amount of time, computer expertise, and intelligence required to decipher the labyrinth of Audio Codecs and Video encoders and bit torrents or IRCs to get all of the movies and Audio/video engineering software needed to pirate high quality DVDs. And THEN you have to burn them, that takes a few more minutes in itself. All in all to do this on a regular basis and not get viruses(AVG and Trend Micro help big time) or a law suit in the mail (which can be avoided by encrypting your IP) takes a lot more cunning, curiosity and drive then going to Best Buy and wasting $20 on a DVD that youll probably only watch once. Definitely not the hobby of a lazy man. In my opinion Mike is the Lazy one, either that or hes just jealous he was too Lazy or incompetent to figure out how to get stuff for free himself. PS- if the billionaire executives of these mega publishing/distribution companies that have all the washington fat cats in their pockets think they can outsmart us (us as in the American public who wants whatever they can get for free, and dont act like your not one of us MIKE) then they got another thing comin. DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM UP, POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!! The amount of work involved in downloading, encoding, and burning a high quality pirated DVD is immense. Its not like going to the video store and layin down 20 bucks for a DVD, it takes hours of work per video. Let alone the amount of time, computer expertise, and intelligence required to decipher the labyrinth of Audio Codecs and Video encoders and bit torrents or IRCs to get all of the movies and Audio/video engineering software needed to pirate high quality DVDs. And THEN you have to burn them, that takes a few more minutes in itself. All in all to do this on a regular basis and not get viruses(AVG and Trend Micro help big time) or a law suit in the mail (which can be avoided by encrypting your IP) takes a lot more cunning, curiosity and drive then going to Best Buy and wasting $20 on a DVD that youll probably only watch once. Definitely not the hobby of a lazy man. In my opinion Mike is the Lazy one, either that or hes just jealous he was too Lazy or incompetent to figure out how to get stuff for free himself.

PS- if the billionaire executives of these mega publishing/distribution companies that have all the washington fat cats in their pockets think they can outsmart us (us as in the American public who wants whatever they can get for free, and dont act like your not one of us MIKE) then they got another thing comin. DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM UP, POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!!

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