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Originally posted by: Zebonka
Man this is a hoot. Revenge of the Sith is doing record business and they're complaining about piracy? If a film is big enough, then the piracy doesn't hurt it because it makes so much money. If a film (or song or whatever) is small time, then it's not big time enough to be bootlegged widely, and the free publicity is worth it. Seriously. I don't see the problem. I've seen the movie twice, am going to see it a 3rd time, and am buying a copy in November. I haven't downloaded it, but certainly will not pick on anyone who does as long as they've paid good money to see it and will buy a legal copy at a later time.
There are a couple of flaws here. Big film or small film, in this day and age they can be bootlegged easily using distro channels. ROTS box-office take has no bearing on whether they should complain or not. When the 'legs' on this film die off, you can easily blame that on the bootlegs as people going to their bootlegs for the 2nd or third viewings rather than going back to see it again.
You are trying to rationalize a crime because they did something else. When they buy the DVD, they are paying to watch that DVD. When they buy a movie ticket, there is a time printed on it. That's the time they paid to see it. It doesn't give the the right to watch it whenever they want, as many times as they want.
I've been over this on numerous boards, but basically it all boils down to stealing. Are we all guilty of it? Sure. Is there any rationale way to explain it off? No. You are in possession of stolen, illegal goods and if the MPAA wants to stop this sort of thing, put the fear of God in a couple high school or teenage kids running these distros and that should do the trick. Federal prison in Indiana is no picnic.