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> I mean if Hulu doesn’t have a movie I want to watch I’ll just watch something else Would anyone loose anything if instead of something else you ended up pira

• paulcole 7y ago
  Yeah, I’d lose respect for myself. I don’t take things that aren’t mine.
  • monetus 7y ago
    I appreciate where you are coming from. Many people understand that, physically, 'pirating' is more akin to copying than taking though. ..And then there is an argument that increasing the availability of content increases the revenue of the producer in the long run. Some game developers and many musicians are even releasing official torrents of their content, assuring quality control. I'm curious how this would work out if bigger studios dabbled with it.
• Godel_unicode 7y ago
  The owner of the content you didn't stream would lose out on the (presumably tiny) fee from Hulu.
• tzs 7y ago
  Whoever would have gotten the royalties from watching that something else on Hula would not get that if instead he pirated the movie he originally wanted to watch. This aspect is often overlooked when people analyze the impact of piracy. People just look at the sales of the seller of the pirated item, and so if it costs $X and $X is more than I am willing to spend, my pirating won't cost them a sale because there was no scenario in which I was going to buy, and so no harm was done to that seller. But in the case of entertainment products, if piracy is not available I'm probably not going to simply forego entertainment. I'll instead look for something that is within my budget and entertain myself with that instead.