Pffft! Torrents? Limewire? The cognoscenti are on usenet...

Indeed - I'm sure that a lot of people getting a pirated copy of Avatar were doing so to lessen withdrawal symptoms. And, as someone else wrote, as long as those people purchased the original DVD and later the CE, it's alright, IMO (which fans and lovers of Pandora will have done, anyway).

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Txim Asawl*~

Ah, I beg to differ. True pros use tehparadox. They have everything.

Yea one of my friends from school showed me his pirated copy and I'm like

:|

*shakes head*

lol

but it wasnt much of a suprise to me either... and the Hurt Locker thing? kind of funny :D

You know everyone only wanted to copy "The Hurt Locker" just to see what the hell beat out Avatar for "Best Picture".

I, like alot of other people aquired a screener copy just soo I could make it through the week til I could go the the cinema again... and then I couldn't bring myself to watch it, in it's terrible picture quality and sound etc, because thats definitely not the way pandora was meant to be experienced.

seriously though, If fox wanna try sueing fans who have admit to having a digital copy of avatar even though they went to the cinemas (numerous times for pretty much everyone on here) and have supported it ever since, but just couldnt wait for the dvd to be released, then I think they should really have another think about going down that path.

anyways, regardless, I don't think people pirating the movie would have hurt cinema attendance or dvd/blu-ray sales, I think if anything, people would watch a pirated copy, go wow, that looks like it'd be amazing if I saw it properly, and then they'd go to the cinema or imax, or go buy the dvd/blu-ray. I myself upgraded my computer with a blu-ray drive for the sole purpose of avatar's first barebones release, because I wanted to watch it in all its fantastic glory... literally, thats the only reason I bothered upgrading to blu-ray.

The Hurt Locker was a waste of bandwidth, at least for those of us who have to deal with usage caps. It winning best picture was nothing but a snub to James Cameron.

But Fox would probably go easy on those who download it. Suing somebody after the amount of money it's made would make them look greedy, which is bad press. Which would be the opposite strategy of THL, which made very little money.

Too bad? The more people watch the movie, the better. Everyone should see Avatar in one or another, and this is only showing that more people have done so. It's a wonderful thing. Avatar is number one everywhere, that's all that matters. :D

You do realise limewire still seeds as well? 99% of clients will refuse to upload to leechers.

As for Avatar itself... I have seen it close to 30 times in the cinema, plus I own 3 bluray copies... :P

As for the hurt locker, it's a waste of disk, people wanted to see WTF it was and didn't want to waste their money (or actually make it do anything further than break even on its cost :P )

There's another side to the coin. Piracy was probably a key factor in Avatar's surge to infamy. Let's say someone downloads it, finds it spectacular and then takes his/her friends out to see it in the cinema. Fox wouldn't chase people over pirating the film either, they made so much profit.

I confess that I downloaded it before the DVD was out.. I couldn't resist :(

A trip to the nearest city with a movie theater cost nearly 200€ so I couldn't afford it more than twice. I also bought the DVD when it came out.

i did as well it help me when i had the avatar blues, but i also went to see it in imax like 27 times and got both dvds so i still put my money in :)

If you purchase a DVD, you have a license and can own digital copies. If you did not, then you do not.

Legally, digital copies are backups (in case of loss of or damage to the disk, or to watch content you own on your own devices by having it in the correct format for them). Of course, copies made before owning the bluray aren't exactly the same but I'm sure everyone ended up buying AT LEAST one copy :P

That's why I still feel a teeny bit guilty, since I still don't own any copies.