what dicks!

 

It always drove me nuts when we saw the switch to DVD and prices went way UP and stayed way UP.

To manufacture a VHS vs a DVD, the cost of the former must be higher than the latter... They stamp out DVD's, hundreds a bloody minute. I get they need to profit, but buying movies used to be much cheaper. No wonder so many people download.

 

Your not paying for the actuall cost of the DVD, your paying roylties, fees, taxes, copyright software licences, etc, and, of course, the copyright police.

 

the whole world needs to stop buying dvd's until they come out in the $5 bin at walmart.

That'll show em...

 

No it won't. Wal-Mart will just get rid of the $5 bin.

 

Say YOU made a product. You do a thorough cost analysis and determine what price you need to put the item at to recover your costs and make a profit. You invest hundreds or thousands of hours of your time perfecting your product and making it the best it can be. In the process, you incur many costs that are not a part of the production process (i.e. it does not cost $0.50 to make a CD unless you're an imbecile).

You release your product. Then the worst happens: a bunch of neo-communist ****** decide you haven't got a right to make a profit from your hard work and start making digital copies of your hard work. What is worse if you are a musician or composer is that those same neo-communist ****** decide that the only time you should be making money is when you actually perform live, without having ever laid a pen to paper or a keystroke to spreadsheet to actually figure out the economics of such a system, without having ever laid pen to staff paper or sat down to play a piano, without ever having created anything themselves.

Now, can anyone here tell me, without blathering completely idiotic nonsense, how they would feel if someone did this to them? Even if any one of you COULD do this, can you then lay out a logical path towards world economic survival that includes this model and shows a profit motive that would cause people to continue to pursue such endeavors?

I didn't think so.

WTF gives any of you the right to take someone else's work without compensation? If YOU "think" it costs too much, you have the CHOICE not to buy. You shouldn't have the choice to steal anonymously. And yes, you are stealing. You are stealing that person's right to make a living, and not JUST that person, but every person along their lines of distribution that relies upon them making a profit, and every person they would hire to do a job for them, which might actually include YOU.

 

No, the producers and creators of these products need to stop making them so that shallow thinkers such as yourself have nothing left to buy OR steal. Then, of course, you will find someone else to blame for the lack of titles.

What do *you* make, and where can I steal it?

 

You're also paying for the receptionist who answers the phone. You're also paying for the truck driver that delivers those DVDs to the store. You're paying for the packaging guy who puts all of the shrink wrapped DVDs into a container to be hauled off by the truck driver. You're also paying for a thousand other people along the line who depend upon this income stream to pay their mortgage, car payments, electric bill, or their dumbass kids' college education (where they will learn even more about stealing from others, while maximizing their own personal gain). That's a thousand people who you can't see, and obviously could not care less about, because all you can think about are the taxes, the royalties, the fees and *yourself*. You don't care about any of those people, do you (except for maybe the last one in that list)?

In all of the nonsense I've read by people who justify their thieving, I have *never* heard any of those imbeciles talk about these people. I have never heard anything from those imbeciles that masqueraded as a cogent economic analysis. In fact, the collateral damage of all of this piracy might be part of the reason we're in an economic slump. Let's face facts: one of the few things left actually being manufactured in this country are DVDs and CDs.

So when you steal this stuff by downloading it, you are hurting your neighbors, your friends, and even yourself, you just haven't put enough thought into it to figure it out. Big surprise there.

I find it rather disgusting that people driving an expensive European car are so casual about not being able to cough up $20 for a DVD. What a bunch of effete hypocrites.

 

You're daft. Before DVDs the price point of most VHS titles was 79.95 or thereabouts. Now you can get your movies for a lot less.

Remember that just repeating some nonsense you read on the internet doesn't make it true. It simply makes you a lemming.

 

Your an ***.. show me just where I even hinted that I:
a) steal software/music/whatever,
b) that I dont care,
c) dont happen to work in that particular 'revenue stream' you talk about,
d) give an actuall **** about what you think you know

If you can do any of those things, I will proclaim you to be the Top High ******* of the People Who Think Too Much About Their Own Assholieness.

Go for it...