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Posted by Justin on 10/03/23 11:36
NYC XYZ wrote on [4 Jan 2006 13:38:34 -0800]:
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> Justin wrote:
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>> No, production costs are the reason. Movies aren't free. Most movies do
>> not break even in the theatrical run. Distribution and labour also
>> aren't free, do you think movies put themself onto DVDs and then take
>> themself to the store?
>
> The argument isn't about things being free, it's about things being
> expensive.
DVDs are a luxury item, $5-$15 isn't too much to ask for a luxury item.
> The argument against piracy is that it makes prices high. That's pure
> bullshit, and I wish folks stop buying into it.
If you think current prices are high then you need a new career
> Same goddamned LIE the music industry's been on for years. Well, I
> hope you read your papers two years or so ago, when "The Big Five"
> settled with a government anti-trust suit over their artificially
> keeping CD prices high.
is $11-$12 high for a CD? I don't think it is. Yes, that's what I pay
for CDs, new.
>> If someone wasn't going to buy something if it wasn't free, this is
>> true. The number of sales actually lost is incalculable.
>
> ?
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> I only bought Carmen Elektra's Strip Poker DVD 'cause it's $6. That's
> less than four slices of pizza here in NYC.
There are people that pirate just to pirate, there are people who pirate
because they are cheap. Cheap people would be the ones that would buy if
that was the only choice, the pirate collector, i.e. the ones who brag
about having a gajillion movies in their "collection" wouldn't.
>> in the example, Silence of the Lambs, Criterion lost the license.
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> I don't understand these people. You know when you lose the license --
> it's right there in the contract -- why not have contingency plans to
> sell all stock in such an event?
What makes you think they don't?
>> Sometimes
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> Well, that's the case we're arguing here, not whether it's discontinued
> due to a loss of rights (in which case they should be pirated --
> absolutely ridiculous to have cultural treasures behind lock and key
> while crap constitute the first gazillion hits on google).
More often, when licenses expire, someone else will pick it up.
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