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Jesus Christ you people are such entitled little snots. With attitudes like that, why should anyone pay for the hard work you do?

by s73v3r 11y ago

izacus 11y ago
I'd love to pay content providers for their content. They refuse to allow me to pay that money.
- s73v3r 11y ago
  And that entitles you to just take it? Again, why should anyone pay you for the work you do if that's what you believe?
  - Freak_NL 11y ago
    I you do a job for me, and I don't pay you, then most people will agree that I really ought to pay you, and that you were wronged and that I am morally and legally obliged to mend my ways. You could convincingly explain that situation to a five-year old. Now consider the perspective of someone who has the disposable income to pay for digital content, and is willing to support content producers, but gets told that his $10 is not as good as the $10 from someone from another country with a similar standard of living. This is acceptable with physical goods, where transport and stock have to be taken into account, but with digital content and today's Internet speeds it is hard to garner any sympathy. So we are left with a choice: don't watch that show, or download it illegally and watch it. It is quite hard to convince people that by downloading the show illegally, you are now depriving a content owner in some foreign country of income by not being able to sell the local rights to that content for as good a price to a local distributor; if one can be found at all, who might sell that content to you in your country, or not, or only for a much higher price on DVD or BluRay, depending on their whim and abstract factors such as the local digital content market and the actions of competitors, and… Good luck convincing these new pirates of their moral wrong.
dkonofalski 11y ago
If it's worth paying for, people will pay for it.
- s73v3r 11y ago
  Irrelevant. We're talking about people who feel entitled to the work of others just taking it.
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Jesus Christ you people are such entitled little snots. With attitudes like that, why should anyone pay for the hard work you do?

by s73v3r 11y ago

Jesus Christ you people are such entitled little snots. With attitudes like that, why should anyone pay for the hard work you do?

izacus 11y ago

I'd love to pay content providers for their content. They refuse to allow me to pay that money.

s73v3r 11y ago
And that entitles you to just take it? Again, why should anyone pay you for the work you do if that's what you believe?
- Freak_NL 11y ago
  I you do a job for me, and I don't pay you, then most people will agree that I really ought to pay you, and that you were wronged and that I am morally and legally obliged to mend my ways. You could convincingly explain that situation to a five-year old. Now consider the perspective of someone who has the disposable income to pay for digital content, and is willing to support content producers, but gets told that his $10 is not as good as the $10 from someone from another country with a similar standard of living. This is acceptable with physical goods, where transport and stock have to be taken into account, but with digital content and today's Internet speeds it is hard to garner any sympathy. So we are left with a choice: don't watch that show, or download it illegally and watch it. It is quite hard to convince people that by downloading the show illegally, you are now depriving a content owner in some foreign country of income by not being able to sell the local rights to that content for as good a price to a local distributor; if one can be found at all, who might sell that content to you in your country, or not, or only for a much higher price on DVD or BluRay, depending on their whim and abstract factors such as the local digital content market and the actions of competitors, and… Good luck convincing these new pirates of their moral wrong.

dkonofalski 11y ago

If it's worth paying for, people will pay for it.

s73v3r 11y ago
Irrelevant. We're talking about people who feel entitled to the work of others just taking it.

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