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Don't Make Me Steal

20 points by solipsist 16y ago

hessenwolf 16y ago
They could make it cheaper with ads in it.
tzs 16y ago
Dup http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2176804 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2176804
dlsspy 16y ago
Thing is, all of these things are available as is from non-legitimate sources. From what I've seen, someone with couch potato, sickbeard and a place to get content will have a far, far better media experience than any subscriber to any existing service (terrestrial, satellite, internet, etc...). Pick your show or movie (whether it's out yet or not), your resolution requirements if you want to be picky (whatever is out there, or must be blu ray, or must be DVD quality, etc...), and just watch it arrive. New episode hits air? You get an email shortly after telling you you have it and it's ready to play. You cannot pay for any service close to this. This is a completely upside-down world.
Derbasti 16y ago
I fully agree with this for buying stuff. Sadly, the industry currently does not offer enough stability to guarantee that I will be able to watch an online-bought movie download on my next computer five years in the future. Hence, I don't buy downloadable movies. For renting however, I think this list is far too stringent. I don't care about copy protection, subtitles, languages etc if I rent a movie online. I will watch it only once, anyway. If the feature set is ok for that one time, it's fine. As for prices, no need for fancy rules: If it's too expensive, don't buy it. My very simple rule concerning piracy: If the movie is available for rent in the language I want, I will pay money to get it. If I think it is worth buying, I will buy the DVD/BluRay. If it is not available legally, I will pirate it.
cellurl 16y ago
I asked this on TPB, e.g. Why not allow an option to donate a dollar to help starving kids in Africa. Then when TPB gets shut down, kids die. The second incarnation of this idea was for me to send a $1.00 check to the producer of the TV/Movie that I pirate. Alas, I have not done that for fear of the check tracing me to jail or a money order being stolen along the way...

Don't Make Me Steal

20 points by solipsist 16y ago

hessenwolf 16y ago

They could make it cheaper with ads in it.

tzs 16y ago

Dup http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2176804 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2176804

dlsspy 16y ago

Thing is, all of these things are available as is from non-legitimate sources. From what I've seen, someone with couch potato, sickbeard and a place to get content will have a far, far better media experience than any subscriber to any existing service (terrestrial, satellite, internet, etc...). Pick your show or movie (whether it's out yet or not), your resolution requirements if you want to be picky (whatever is out there, or must be blu ray, or must be DVD quality, etc...), and just watch it arrive. New episode hits air? You get an email shortly after telling you you have it and it's ready to play. You cannot pay for any service close to this. This is a completely upside-down world.

Derbasti 16y ago

I fully agree with this for buying stuff. Sadly, the industry currently does not offer enough stability to guarantee that I will be able to watch an online-bought movie download on my next computer five years in the future. Hence, I don't buy downloadable movies. For renting however, I think this list is far too stringent. I don't care about copy protection, subtitles, languages etc if I rent a movie online. I will watch it only once, anyway. If the feature set is ok for that one time, it's fine. As for prices, no need for fancy rules: If it's too expensive, don't buy it. My very simple rule concerning piracy: If the movie is available for rent in the language I want, I will pay money to get it. If I think it is worth buying, I will buy the DVD/BluRay. If it is not available legally, I will pirate it.

cellurl 16y ago

I asked this on TPB, e.g. Why not allow an option to donate a dollar to help starving kids in Africa. Then when TPB gets shut down, kids die. The second incarnation of this idea was for me to send a $1.00 check to the producer of the TV/Movie that I pirate. Alas, I have not done that for fear of the check tracing me to jail or a money order being stolen along the way...