12-10-2011, 03:26 PM
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Let's do some business.
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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How much longer are the content distributors going to flounder about before they finally realize the only solution to piracy is ubiquitous availability and super-low prices, with the prices floating based on the level of piracy? Piracy isn't a bug, it's a feature--a Neilsen system, if you will, for gauging how well you are getting your content to the people who want it at a price they're happy with. If it cost you, say, 25 cents to stream a TV episode (more for a seldom-seen and seldom-pirated show, less for a perennial favorite like Firefly) available everywhere, would you go to the trouble of downloading and saving your own illicit copy? Of course not. With a sufficiently low price on popular repeat content, you would not even care if you were paying for it a second, third, or fourth time.
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This honestly was easier than searching for a torrent. I know I'm getting a good quality video, and I don't have to run it through a virtual machine first to see if it's clean.
I also wanted to let big media companies who support DRM, with my money, that this is by far better than their method of selling shit.
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I'm a huge stand up comedy fan -- while Louis C.K. isn't my favorite, I support anyone delivering their content direct to fans for a low rate. I bought it just to help the "case study" in hopes that other music/games/media will be delivered like this in the future.
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I torrent damn near everything but I bought this and have encouraged all my friends to do so to. Price was perfect.
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My first ever media digital download purchase. Well worth it.. Louis CK is doing it right. I hope this catches on. $5 for the purchase without any of the other bullshit.
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When will companies realize that the easier you make it to obtain a game or a movie, the less chance you have of people pirating it? When you impliment huge security measures that are frustrating to end-users, and also can cause problems with their software, you're just begging people to get it a simpler way. You can't make something hacker-proof, it's not feasible. I would much rather buy something from steam when it's on sale, then torrent it. Also, since I bought netflix instant-watch, I haven't torrented a single movie. Things are things that work.
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That's enough I guess.
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