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Originally Posted by kane
It does suck that it takes that long to get it, but you can't really say that you would pay for it if you could because you can pay for it, you just have to wait a while. What you mean is there is no way for you to pay for it right now.
Waiting can suck, but what a lot of these companies do is use the hype and good reviews that a show like Game of Thrones generated when it played on HBO to build up a demand for it then in places where it didn't air they sell it on DVD and people buy it. If people download it then they likely are not going to buy it when it is available on DVD so even though the show isn't available for you to buy when it is in first run, downloading it can potentially hurt value of the show and the sales of the show.
Do you get HBO where you live and it just wasn't aired there, or is HBO not at all available?
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which is the exactly the same argument that universal made when they argued that the vcr should be illegal
you could always wait for the reruns
using your vcr cost them the ad revenue from rerun.
still doesn't explain why you believe the argument is suddenly valid now.