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Re:Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine S... by antoineMoPa on Friday August 05, 2016 @01:07PM (#12234002)
The first thing that got me to pirate movies was that DVDs did not work because of their DRM after I installed Linux. I had plenty of legally bought movies that just did not work on my computer until I found the right Gentoo packages (libdvd-css or something)... I never tried Netflix because it took so many years for it to work with Linux. Being a free software user, it is easier to pirate stuff than to buy the content. If companies just gave me access to a DRM free .avi/.ogv download for a decent price, I would buy the damn movies.
Re:Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine S... by phairoh on Friday August 05, 2016 @01:58PM (#12234444)
> If companies just gave me access to a DRM free .avi/.ogv download for a decent price, I would buy the damn movies.

A million times this. The music industry figured out how to sell DRM free music files years ago and ever since then I haven't pirated a single album. If the video entertainment industry would do the same, my torrenting days would be over.