Pirates Ahoy!

[Damien Lloyd]

I now "Try before I buy".

Now there's a thought...

Are you saying Damien, that making a DVD copy of an illegal downloaded film renders that DVD copy legal?

Now there's a thought...

Hmm, I just re-read my post and it appears thats exactly what I said.
It is also a complete LIE. I bought legal copies of all of the good films I've downloaded and deleted the rest.

I'm sure the makers of rubbish films would hope to profit from wasting hours of my life that I will never get back, but I went the cinema and paid £16 for 2 tickets to watch Blair Witch Project. NEVER AGAIN. (The amazing thing is I still meet people today who claim they enjoyed that film, the media has told them it's amazing, and so they actually believe what they saw wasn't in fact a piece of crap. Which of course it was).

"But they worked hard to create that film, and you did watch it, so why shouldn't they get paid for their efforts?"

Thats a fair question. Now imagine that the media didn't tell the whole planet that the Blair witch project was pure cinematic genius, and that if you didn't enjoy it then it was because your brain was too small to comprehend it's greatness. Then everyone involved would have been unable to break even. They may have ended up living on the streets as prostitutes and drug addicts. I think nobody can honestly deny that that would be preferable to letting these people near a camera again.