(December 31, 2013 at 7:06 pm)houseofcantor Wrote: I'm wondering the topic goes "piracy" and everybody else goes "music."That is probably because music has been so easy (and safe) to pirate, at least once the "RIAA lawyer" boogeyman went away. I downloaded several dozen songs when mp3s first became available, but once I could buy individual songs for, well... a song.... I did that instead.
Movies are less likely to be pirated, IMO, because you either need to download a very large file or make do with poor quality video. I can remember the days of $80 movies on VHS (or the equivalent of around $170 today!!!) and have no problems buying a $15-30 blu-ray movie now, or a $5 HD "rental" through Vudu or watching a fair-quality version on Netflix for pennies.
Now software... *finds his attention suddenly drawn elsewhere*
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