Help my friend realise how stupid he is.
POSTED BY: blackbeanie
UPDATED: Monday, October 2, 2006 09:29
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Though I think many of your hearts are in the right place, I simply cannot understand the anger some feel twoards burning the media. This is akin to the Government trying to collect back taxes on me for buying my cigarettes from Russia online because Russia had the best offer for smokes when Cook County, Illinois decided that $7.00 per pack was a fair price. I don't care how righteous anybody here thinks they are or how much against smoking they were.... If they could get the same thing for $1.85 per pack, they would do it too (and that included delivery). Times are tough and when gas prices and rent are high, rasing the cost of necessities like food, well, some people cannot afford to drop money on every show they love.
As for Serenity being in the red, that's just what they grossed in the theatre. Nobody had ever heard of Donnie Darko before and it had a very short run in the theatre. Then it got to DVD, became a cult classic, and made a small fortune. Somebody gave me a burned copy of it and I was amazed by it. It is, in my opinion, the very best movie ever made. When I saw it on sale at Best Buy for $10.00 I picked it up. Did I have to? No.... I already owned it. I did it because I liked the movie and I show support for things that I truly enjoy when I have the means to do so.
If it wasn't for "pirating", we would all still be paying $22.99 for a CD with 3 good songs on it (remember those days) and most likely $30.00-$40.00 for a DVD (a movie, not a TV series). I can guaranty you that when they finally manage to put an end to "piracy" that prices will rise again. Prices will not fall like they would have you believe when they say things like, "piracy raises the costs for everyone who pays for the goods." On the contrary, "pirates" have lowered the costs for all.
People are willing to pay fair prices for goods that are not crap. The software, music and movie "pirating" is simply lowering demand for crap, thereby making the BIG Industries reconsider ripping off the fans as much every chance they get. They're only doing what any business is doing: trying to get it while they can.... because if the housing bubble bursts and the world economies collapse as some economists predict, ain't nobody in the 'verse going to buy Firefly on DVD before putting food in their mouth or a shelter over their head.
I have burned Firefly for several of my friends and one of them purchased the series. He hates watching burned DVDs without the extras so he only owns paid for stuff. This is one of the nice perks of having a union job is that you can afford all of the little things while paying for a mortgage and a nice car and insurance and still managing to save. Again, we can't all make these small purchases without being one of the millions of careless Americans who have needless credit card debt for doing stupid things like buying DVDs that they can't really afford on top of their rent/mortgage, car payment, food and electric bills. They may not be rabid fans of the show like some of us are and they may have higher priorities on their mind than paying for the show when they can just download it. That is up to you to convice them, or not. Even if they give the copy to somebody else, that's one more viewer (and potential buyer) of the greatest show ever made.
***If I had never given the copy to my friend, he quite possibly would have never seen it or bought it.***
Don't be a hater, and above all, don't be a voice for the Alliance. I don't think Mal would even watch TV, but if he did, I guaranty you that he would own a burned copy of Firefly himself.
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No need to appologize, if I'm wrong, I'd like to know it. I know FBC and 20thCF are different, but they are both still FOX . It's like saying that AOL, Time, and Warner are different companies. Sure, they all do their own things, but they are stil AOL Time Warner.
The following companies are all part of the entity known as 'FOX':
20TH CENTURY FOX THEATRICAL, FOX Kids, FOX BOX, FOX SPORTS, FOX NEWS, fX CABLE, FOX INTERNATIONAL, FOX BROADCASTING COMPANY or 20TH TELEVISION
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I'll be in my bunk.
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To Borntofly:
Sorry, the sale's over now.
But, yes I did pick up a copy.
Just to clear things up, he had seen the movie before all this.
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