I gladly paid the rental fee on the Xbox.
That movie was worth it and more, easily.
People weigh the pros and cons of every decision they make. Piracy has very few repercussions compared to other crimes. As it's difficult to police and there isn't as huge a stigma against it as opposed to traditional stealing, the best solution currently is to offer a more convenient and legal option, such as Spotify or Netflix. Most people would choose the instant gratification of those mediums as opposed to a long download.
They made a whole PR stunt that it wouldn't be available world wide...so of course people downloaded it (myself included)
The issues are release times though... It generally takes 1-3 months for top movies to come out on streaming services, netflix, hula, viaplay, PS store etc etc...
Ain't nobody got time to wait 3 months to rent a movie I could just download for free ? Makes no sense...
Make the content available to buy and I'll buy it...if you dont, I wont. Very simple.
So old that I had to google the movie for I didn't remember it anymore.
IIRC it was released on Crackle, right? A free service? Why pirate what's free?
The only false argument that I can think of when it comes to filesharing that is repeated by ignoramuses time and again is that if people didn't have access to warez versions of products, they would, with a 100% certainty, buy all said products. All the anti-filesharing statistics, all the statistics and arguments used in any legal case against filesharers ever, hang on that completely fallacious and asinine conclusion.
Talk about a false argument.
I have no desire to watch that movie, rented or otherwise. But this is definitely not compelling statistical data on its own. If you're going to make an argument against piracy, use a meta-data analysis, not a this-one-shitty-movie analysis.
Whether or not I would be paying the TV tax, which all Finns are forced to do, the creators of TV shows and movies wouldn't get a single cent more. First of all they've already been paid, and it's the publishing companies that are raking in the revenue, and secondly, I personally don't give two shits about what other people do - what I do doesn't change what a single other person does - and as such I'm only interested in what impact my own personal actions have on the people who make the products. I leave the completely pointless "whatifsming" to the people who have a need to cling to those kinds of fantasies.
Having said that, I'm paying a yearly tax to gain access to TV shows and movies from the Finnish TV channels, which I do not watch. I am owed TV shows and movies, so even if I did resort to filesharing to watch a show or a movie, I'd sleep like a baby. As said, I've already paid my fair share, and the actual creators of those works do not get a single cent more regardless of whether I exist or not.
But hey, "what if..." "what if..."