Posted by NYC XYZ on 01/11/14 11:36

Justin wrote:
>
>
> 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.

The argument against piracy is that it makes prices high. That's pure
bullshit, and I wish folks stop buying into it.

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.

PIRACY = INCREASED COSTS = BULLSHIT.

LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE

If it weren't for my own laziness (what's "ripping"?) and snobbishness
(I like it "original") I'd pirate the thieves, too.

> If someone wasn't going to buy something if it wasn't free, this is
> true. The number of sales actually lost is incalculable.

?

I only bought Carmen Elektra's Strip Poker DVD 'cause it's $6. That's
less than four slices of pizza here in NYC.

> in the example, Silence of the Lambs, Criterion lost the license.

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?

> I know
> that if I produced something I would make certain to have enough copies
> on hand to never have no copies, no matter how many I had given away as
> examples of my work.

Now that's what I'm talking about! Especially your
critically-acclaimed titles which lend prestige to your catalog. Heck,
even Shakespeare's been forgotten at one time (Bach, Mozart...believe
it or not, all the geniuses were almost immediately forgotten after
their deaths).

> Sometimes

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).

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