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Content piracy has long been about the exorbitant cost of acquiring content. If you look at the cost of downloading a full, original quality Blu-Ray rip, then
by Erudite_Genius 7y ago
Content piracy has long been about the exorbitant cost of acquiring content.
If you look at the cost of downloading a full, original quality Blu-Ray rip, then burning that to a dual-layer BD-R disc, you're looking at an hour to torrent plus up to $10 for a dual-layer recordable disc. Compare that to a store-bought copy that's $7.88 and comes with both Blu-Ray and DVD copies, and it's no contest.
Make that store-bought copy $49.95 (thanks, Marvel) and it makes piracy attractive. Add terrible DRM on top and you GUARANTEE piracy, because you're being hostile to people that have actually bought your movie.
If DRM had never been invented, piracy would only be about 5% worse, and your paying customers wouldn't be cursing your existence... but the media companies are too stupid to realize that.
- pferde 7y ago> If DRM had never been invented, piracy would only be about 5% worse, and your paying customers wouldn't be cursing your existence... but the media companies are too stupid to realize that. The media companies do not care whether their paying customers love them or hate them. What they do care about, though, is when there is 5% less of them. Remember, big corporations do not just want money - they want all the money (and more).