| Layzie |
12-28-2010 05:33 AM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Boba Fett
(Post 119175)
If I had barely any money to feed myself, and I had bought a computer as the cheapest form of entertainment that I could find after saving money for a year or two, I'd be offended if someone came and told me that I must pay for a film that just made a few billion, and it makes me a bad person if I don't.
This used to be the case in my family a long time ago. The only films I had seen were those shown on TV ("seen" is a terrible overstatement given that our TV set was barely working), I never listened to any music or played any game, while all my classmates would tell me about terrific films they've seen, the games that they played on their console or how awesome the new Metallica album is. So naturally, when my parents bought a PC (as an investment to make money with it :D ), I was happy to illegally obtain games and music, and become a happy child. I actually "downloaded" them from the CDs of my friends (no money for Internet) - Lars Ulrich has to be very angry that I pirated Metallica long before Napster existed. And I honestly fail to see how can anyone see that as a bad thing. :embarrassed:
Sure, my parents could buy music and films. I'd just eat less, skip any lessons I took additionally, and I'd skip learning how to use a computer. Only that thanks to all of this I became a more productive member of society, and now I also happen to have enough money to go and see Avatar ten times in cinema bringing someone with me each time and paying for their ticket. But maybe it was a bad thing after all - friends have personally told me that I'm one of the "morons" responsible for making "this joke of a film" the highest grossing film of all time. :D I'm pretty proud of it, actually. :party:
P.S. How would the Na'vi pay if they wanted to show them a film? :D
|
Well I know the feeling. I used to also hear some people talk about movies and stuff they seen. Stuff I didn't even know existed because I had no channels to see commercials. Not to mention, for a long time I had to walk over a mile to get on a computer. I've lived the struggle for most of my life, but THAT kind of stuff never bothered me. Hearing that I have to pay for a movie even though I had little to begin with would be far from offensive to me. I even buy multipule copies of certain items, just to support them.
You said the thing about pirating Metallica and not seeing how people can see it as a bad thing. It's one thing when you pirate a movie, but music is a whole different story. Artists used to make better money before all the illegal downloading. The MOST popular artists right now are only selling like 100-400k of their albums. That's good for today's sales but 10+ years ago, that wasn't nearly as good as it seems today. But sometimes not even the popular artists sell. I am not a fan of Soulja Boy, but I think it's pretty pathetic that being as popular as he is, his album sold 13,000 copies in the first week. And being on a major label rather than independant, you don't see a lot of that money and the labels take a lot of the expenses out of your paycheck. So having to pay all that while barely selling anything, you are not making very much money at all. I'd be suprised if you had $10,000 after all that.
Quote:
Originally Posted by xcrunner08
(Post 119206)
^Good post. Assuming all 16 million people downloading it didn't see it ONCE in theaters, thats like what another 100-200 million? Avatar made over 2 billion I dont think its hurting for that extra amount...
|
After reading that, I knew what I was going to say, but this post I have quoted below this one pretty much says what I was going to.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fosus
(Post 119217)
I think, if torrents did not exist Avatar would have broken 3 billion
|
That is what I was thinking. People are saying Avatar grossed 2 billion, when it was actually closer to 3. It was like 2.7 or 2.8. If it was not pirated at all, maybe we could have reach the 3 billion mark. :D |
