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Don't Make Me Steal
- viraptor 15y agoAlthough most of the points are pretty much ok from the customers perspective, these two are almost guaranteed to never happen: The release date is global. There are no limits regarding the country I live in.I can download nearly every movie ever made. There will be a distributor who doesn't follow the first point, so the second cannot be met either. I really like the idea behind this page and largely agree with it, but in it's current form it's just completely unrealistic. Also dictating exact price proportions is a bit silly...
- milesskorpen 15y agoRe: prices -- the intent of the document is to dictate terms, and try to set a reasonable-ness baseline. Unrealistic, but pricing is something the studios control to a large extent. Distribution is much trickier, since ownership varies dramatically across regions. While many middlemen are going to face a lot of trouble in coming years, distribution of some sort will continue for quite some time to spread the costs of advertising and translating. Also, while perhaps myopic, as an American I don't really care about global availability. If everything else was met, I'd rent/buy more frequently.
- andrewfelix 15y agoSelf righteous nonsense. The author is implying piracy is justified if a film doesn't provide "...audio in every language produced for the content." Doesn't attempt to recoup costs of hosting and makes it instantly available to everyone who demands a copy. Warner Bros. might be able to meet those requirements. But how the fuck are smaller studios going to meet them? How about "I promise not to steal if you endeavour to make your content available to me"? At the moment this reads like a threatening list of demands.