Originally Posted by AnniKN

I am talking about the people who know how to download illegally, and are able to do so but still decide to buy a DVD. Mainstream equivalent of the people who know about tubes but still prefer to buy a subscription. And YES, there is people who want to see a movie repeatedly and download it instead and would've bought it if torrents didn't exist. Netflix isn't available worldwide etc.

My point is: the people who know how to get something for free but still decide to pay have other motives that make they want to pay for it, because there is no NEED to pay for it anymore, and it's beyond just wanting to watch THAT. Talking specifically from what I've seen in the aspiring filmmakers groups, they know how to get things for free, they're broke, but if they loved some Indonesian movie that is an import DVD and costs 45 USD, they'll eat beans for a week even if they could have just downloaded it slowly throughout said week from pirate bay.

Thinking that there is not THAT much people downloading movies is naive and stupid, over 1 million people downloaded Disaster Movie, and it's the shittiest thing ever made apparently.