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Originally Posted by opulence
Not a fake nick. Just baffled by your ridiculous comparisons right from the first one between paying for
WATCHING A MOVIE ON A BIG SCREEN IN A THEATRE AS SOON AS IT'S RELEASED, AS A SOCIAL OUTING WITH FRIENDS vs. getting a torrent that someone recorded with a fucking handycam
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Paying for porn vs. getting it for free off a torrent with the same quality.
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Still a fake nick..
Yeah, it's different.. It's a movie, it's clean, it's sound is good. But people that will pirate, will still pirate it. And related to this topic - the movie is worth the $40 to the theater, and $20 for the dvd. The porno DVD being $40 too, is why they are hurting, even why most movies are hurting, both are over priced.
Piracy, isn't hurting either and that was the point.
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Originally Posted by opulence
Or your statement about piracy not being new... are you fucking kidding me? Piracy used to be the UNDERGROUND of the internet, unknown to most, difficult to find and use for the average computer user. I remember this kid that used to sell pirated software on CDs in highschool and the clowns that he would sell stuff to wouldn't even be able to figure out how to unrar the archives and burn an ISO  . Now - New age piracy (torrent/tube sites) rank about 10x higher and get 10-100x more traffic than most mainstream/legit sites, and are readily findable on google - and any clown that has had a computer for a couple of years doesn't have any problem configuring his pirated material. |
Piracy is still as underground today as it was 10 years ago. 10 years ago I got a newsgroup account with my dial up account that exposed me to piracy. From here I moved into IRC, never using it before but quickly figured it out. Then password sites, which also almost killed our industry (haha)..
So we are both pirates, welcome to the group. Do you still buy software, movies, music? I have never purchased porn so I can't relate on that end.
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Originally Posted by opulence
People that pirate would never buy anyway???? Another ridiculous fucking statement... I'd say there are 3 most likely scenarios of a porn surfer - 1. has pirated, and will always pirate (never buy) - 2. used to buy, but figured out how to satisfy his needs without buying - 3. doesn't know how to get pirated stuff, or just prefers to buy.
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I didn't say people never buy anyway, read again. Oh and don't forget about people that will continue to buy porn, even after they found piracy. Or people that think piracy is illegal and won't do it, just like some won't download music because they are scared of the mpaa. Minor few, but enough.