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Originally Posted by alnorth
no joke, you could sort of see the motivation many, many years ago if you wash your morals through a weird illogical spin-cycle (the artists aren't profiting, they make money off tours, I wont pay the greedy record companies! Movies are so expensive and almost always terrible, there's no way to try before you buy! etc)
but now, gosh this stuff is so cheap that I dont have a lot of sympathy for pirates anymore. (I guess the above argument still exists a bit for those $50-60 games, but even then there's usually demo versions to try so you aren't a total victim here) songs are a dollar or so, you give netflix a few bucks a month and you can get over a dozen dvd's/month and unlimited online for lots of movies, which is a hell of a good deal.
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I don't really give a shit about cutting into the profit margins of anyone with my downloading. I only d/l TV shows that don't hit Hulu and obscure music albums. I buy a shit-ton of movie tickets, DVDs, Blu-Rays and albums. I buy more entertainment than I download.