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LOL...touche'

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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Well it's like this. This is about greed. They have paid for the movie, they have turned a profit, just about everyone has already won out and made more money than most movies make anyway. They don't need anymore. It will not hurt them if people pirate the movie from here on in because they're still making money and will make even more money in November when the DVD comes out. It don't matter anymore!

Besides, people have to stop thinking about legal issues a little. If I get pissed with my Dad and joke about killing him in his sleep do I go:

"No, I'd be sent to jail!"
or
"That'd be wrong he's my dad and I love him".

Too many bloody people these day go for option 1, because it's a high horse. It's so easy to sit there and say 'thief!' when in actual fact it just doesn't bloody matter! I'm not thinking of the enormous penalty I'm going to get for downloading Episode IV (the nonSE version), I'm thinking of the fact that Lucas is what, a 10billionaire already? And that everyone involved already HAS my money (I own the DVD's). The fact that you guys get suckered into their greed is quite funny!
VADER: Let me look on you with my own eyes...

LUKE: Dad, where are your eyebrows?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WO_S6UgkQk0
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Care to explain how I was suckered into this greed? I fail to see the humor.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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My uncle told me an article he read the other day (6/3 i think). Pretty sure it was in the Wall Street Journal, but i could be wrong. anyway, it said that the movie studios only make about 20% of their profit from a movie from the Box office sales. The other 80% comes from dvd/vhs sales (pretty sure these numbers didnt include revenue from marketing tie-ins and action figures and stuff like that). This is part (most) of the reason movies are comming out on dvd earlier than before. The longer the movie stays in the theater the more people see it and the less people buy(rent?) the dvd/vhs because theyve already seen it. Obviously big fans of the show/movie will buy the dvd even if they see it multiple times in the theater, but not everyone does. They dont know what the exact numbers/formula for how long to keep a movie in the theaters and how soon to release it to dvd is yet, but its being studied.

So my point is, that you may not think that bootlegging the dvd hurts that much, and it probably doesnt in the case where your downloading it before the official one is released, providing the people that download it buy the official one (as apposed to not buying it because they have a bootleg) But if people start bootlegging official dvds (which is done) then that is cutting into a bigger part of the studios profits. Not saying they need the money, but its still stealing and its still hurting revenue (which a lot of arguements say it doesnt)

before you say it doesnt, make sure you realize that i did mention the caveat of fans that will download the bootleg but also buy the official dvd when it comes out.

-Darth Simon
Why Anakin really turned to the dark side:
"Anakin, You're father I am" - Yoda
"No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!" - Anakin

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*touchy people disclaimer*
some or all of the above comments are partially exaggerated to convey a point, none of the comments are meant as personal attacks on anyone mentioned or reference in the above post
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"I fail to see this humour"

Yeah and you probably didn't laugh at Naked Gun either.
VADER: Let me look on you with my own eyes...

LUKE: Dad, where are your eyebrows?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WO_S6UgkQk0