Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List
by mikeash on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @01:24PM
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The argument works equally well if you simply wouldn't buy it.
The issue, of course, is whether or not you're correctly estimating whether you would end up buying it if you didn't pirate it. But if you take it as given that you wouldn't buy it, then there's no loss.
This argument fall apart in many of the examples cited in this thread because most of the time, those movies are available digitally for a price. The fact is that most people just don't want to pay that price so they use other means to watch the movie.