Re:Fox’s 8-Day Delay on Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge
by robrenaud on Monday August 22, 2011 @09:16PM
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What prevents you from bit torrenting the content you want, and then sending appropriately sized cashier's checks to the content producers?
Re:Fox’s 8-Day Delay on Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge
by boyter on Monday August 22, 2011 @09:25PM
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I would be interested to see what happened if someone did that. My guess would be that the content producers (movie industry) would begin legal action as while you paid for the content you didn't pay for it in the manner they dictated.
Re:Fox’s 8-Day Delay on Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge
by robrenaud on Monday August 22, 2011 @09:41PM
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The point of the cashier's check is that they don't know who you are. I have a hard time believing that someone who paid market value for the content and didn't even require distribution service would be in a worse position than someone who pirated the content and paid nothing.
As a remarkably honest biped (who, e.g., bought two Adobe Suite licenses, one for his PC & one for his Mac, and has purchased WinRAR), I am thus being put in the hilariously paradoxical position where not only I am hardly incentivized to legally purchase content, but I am unable to do so. I am struggling to do so, and I can not; this is such a tragicomical condition that my fruitless effort to legally retrieve movies&shows has become a running joke within my circle of friends. Adding insult to injury, every single major firm persists on sticking to this ridicolously unreasonable regional distribution paradigm—which adds basically no value even from a job-creation standpoint— whereas I would be absolutely happy to throw money at them by purchasing non-localized content.
P.S. To be clear, I live in European first-world country, where the value of the movie market is more than big enough to justify sensible business investments.