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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
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Common sense. I know it isn't 1 download equals 1 lost sale, but you know if 1000 people download the show at least some of those people would have purchased the DVD if the download wasn't available.
I can give you two examples. Say for example I lived somewhere where I couldn't get HBO. This means I never saw Game of Thrones. I heard about it, I read about and I want to see it, but I was never able to. So then I hear it will be out on DVD. I will likely, at the least, rent it and potentially buy it. But then a friend shows me how to download it for free. Once I download it and watch there is zero percent chance of me renting or buying it. So that download just cost them money. Also, I have a friend who owns a lot of DVDs (more than 2,500). He has everything from TV shows to movies. About 2 years ago he discovered torrents. He hasn't not purchased a DVD since. Before he bought between 6-8 DVDs per month at the minimum. Since he started downloading he has bought 0.
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Who do you think mostly buys DVDs of a particular TV show? People who haven't seen the show before or people who have?
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I never said that most DVDs are sold out of market. I would guess that most TV shows sell DVDs to their fans who have seen the show already. But I am also sure that there are places in the world where certain shows don't air yet the people that live there hear about the shows online etc. So when the show is put on DVD and made available to them some of them buy it. It doesn't make up the majority, but it is sales and if those people downloaded the show before hand they potentially will buy fewer DVDs.