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> Maybe I'm missing something, but that sounds an awful lot like some sort of weird consumer entitlement It doesn't matter what you want to depict it as. You c

> Maybe I'm missing something, but that sounds an awful lot like some sort of weird consumer entitlement It doesn't matter what you want to depict it as. You can browbeat people all you want, shake your head at humanity, none of it matters. You're not going to browbeat people into not watching a movie they want to see when all it takes is just a few clicks. These companies spend tens of millions of dollars marketing a product to create demand and then are unable to satisfy the demand. I don't have any kind of physical player anymore. Nothing in my house plays DVDs, BlueRays, VHS, nothing. If I want to see a movie I check on Netflix, I check on Amazon Video, and then if I still don't see it I check out. I don't pirate, but it is frustrating even for me. I can't watch any of the Star Wars films. Sure I guess there are some kind of weird deals that prevent these companies from making these changes, but all that means to me is that I can't watch those movies any more, and for others it means they'll just pirate it, with no fucks given about what you might think about that.

unclebucknasty 12y ago
My question wasn't browbeating. And I certainly didn't believe it would change anyone's mind. Anyway, another question for you: why don't you pirate?
- swartkrans 12y ago
  > why don't you pirate? I don't like feeling bad, in the past I have felt bad about pirating.
  - unclebucknasty 12y ago
    I guess my question to you is why do you feel bad about it? And my original question was, why do others not only feel no remorse about it, but actually seem to feel entitled to do it?
    - avn2109 12y ago
      >> "... why do others not only feel no remorse about it, but actually seem to feel entitled to do [piracy]?" Because in market societies, we have all been trained since birth to find the goods and services we want at the lowest possible price in the market. I feel entitled to buying Wrigley's Doublemint gum for 75 cents instead of 2 bucks, because it's readily available at that price. In this case the price of movies is zero, so people feel entitled to that price.

unclebucknasty 12y ago

My question wasn't browbeating. And I certainly didn't believe it would change anyone's mind. Anyway, another question for you: why don't you pirate?

swartkrans 12y ago
> why don't you pirate? I don't like feeling bad, in the past I have felt bad about pirating.
- unclebucknasty 12y ago
  I guess my question to you is why do you feel bad about it? And my original question was, why do others not only feel no remorse about it, but actually seem to feel entitled to do it?
  - avn2109 12y ago
    >> "... why do others not only feel no remorse about it, but actually seem to feel entitled to do [piracy]?" Because in market societies, we have all been trained since birth to find the goods and services we want at the lowest possible price in the market. I feel entitled to buying Wrigley's Doublemint gum for 75 cents instead of 2 bucks, because it's readily available at that price. In this case the price of movies is zero, so people feel entitled to that price.