Thread: 7 Charged as F.B.I. Closes a Top File-Sharing Site

In a decade's time when a cinema-quality entertainment set costs a hundred bucks and you can download high-res films quickly and easily for no cost at all, you can bet your ass the film studios will be losing dollars.

Originally Posted by Xei

In a decade's time when a cinema-quality entertainment set costs a hundred bucks and you can download high-res films quickly and easily for no cost at all, you can bet your ass the film studios will be losing dollars.

And why should they be immune to the march of technology? When the automobile was invented, the carriage makers lost a lot of money. Should the government have passed anti-car laws? Times change, and business models must be adapted or die. If purchasing "official" copies of movies is absurdly expensive compared to the alternatives, that's the fault of the publishers and they SHOULD be punished with lost business.

Why hasn't Hollywood implemented an iTunes-like system for movie distribution? Perhaps they thought it would be cheaper to just lobby the government, huh?

Originally Posted by cmind

Why hasn't Hollywood implemented an iTunes-like system for movie distribution? Perhaps they thought it would be cheaper to just lobby the government, huh?

iTunes sells movies.

As long as this baseless pro-piracy attitude continues to be so widespread, all you're doing is allowing personal greed to give our government all the justification it needs to violate your rights.

Originally Posted by Supernova

iTunes sells movies.

Yes but the movie companies didn't set that up did they?

Originally Posted by Supernova

As long as this baseless pro-piracy attitude continues to be so widespread, all you're doing is allowing personal greed to give our government all the justification it needs to violate your rights.

....Right.... just ignore all our points and call our pro-piracy attitude "baseless".
Nice tactic.