Son Goku
No lover of dogma
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I had mentioned this elsewhere; but not everyone who downloads torrents is nessecarilly an individual who steals everything for free. In my case for instance:
- I recently got mailing from Replay (Sun Coast's frequent shopper club) indicating that since joining, like 2.5 years ago, I had earned $260 in reward certificates. Now to put this in perspective, for a $5 certificate, one needs to make $100 in purchases...
- Most of the stuff I had downloaded are television shows which are or once were available on the air waves or through digital cable which I subscribe too (hardly cheap).
- Other stuff I have downloaded are dang near impossible to find in the United States. Either a foreign show (I watch a fair amount of Anime) else they have been discontinued/not being made available anymore.
- When I finish watching stuff, I delete it.
- Once upon a time I didn't even buy TV shows on, then it was VHS. Since then, there had been a few things I wanted to go back and watch, but again discontinued. Look on a place like Amazon.com and they're now collectors items with very little used products still existing. One show, tried to get a couple videos (and they had very little of it on video) and after about 9 months of waiting for someone to sell theirs, I gave up.
Now I pretty much buy that which I would want to see again at some latter time. Space in my appartment is very limited, and I couldn't ware house everything heaven forbid
A lot of stuff I've watched once or twice though, it was interesting/funny/whatever the first time through, but not good enough that I would want to watch it again and again
Like with the RIAA several years ago, and then many of the recording artists began to speak against them, I think the argument of piracy is at times over-stated.
Before they went down, I was watching Earth Final Conflict again. And lest someone say "buy it", I already own seasons 3 and 4 on DVD. Season 5 I hadn't got yet, and seasons 1 and 2 were never released on DVD. When I inquired about this on an EFC forum several years ago, it was mentioned that the distribution company only got rights to release seasons 3-5 and that seasons 1 and 2 aren't comming out. Go figure... At least I was able to hunt down the suprnova mirror (wasn't listed on torrent reactor which is still up) which will work for getting the rest of that. Whether it will include new torrents or not, or just a copy of the old stuff...can't say.
- I recently got mailing from Replay (Sun Coast's frequent shopper club) indicating that since joining, like 2.5 years ago, I had earned $260 in reward certificates. Now to put this in perspective, for a $5 certificate, one needs to make $100 in purchases...
- Most of the stuff I had downloaded are television shows which are or once were available on the air waves or through digital cable which I subscribe too (hardly cheap).
- Other stuff I have downloaded are dang near impossible to find in the United States. Either a foreign show (I watch a fair amount of Anime) else they have been discontinued/not being made available anymore.
- When I finish watching stuff, I delete it.
- Once upon a time I didn't even buy TV shows on, then it was VHS. Since then, there had been a few things I wanted to go back and watch, but again discontinued. Look on a place like Amazon.com and they're now collectors items with very little used products still existing. One show, tried to get a couple videos (and they had very little of it on video) and after about 9 months of waiting for someone to sell theirs, I gave up.
Now I pretty much buy that which I would want to see again at some latter time. Space in my appartment is very limited, and I couldn't ware house everything heaven forbid
A lot of stuff I've watched once or twice though, it was interesting/funny/whatever the first time through, but not good enough that I would want to watch it again and again Like with the RIAA several years ago, and then many of the recording artists began to speak against them, I think the argument of piracy is at times over-stated.
Before they went down, I was watching Earth Final Conflict again. And lest someone say "buy it", I already own seasons 3 and 4 on DVD. Season 5 I hadn't got yet, and seasons 1 and 2 were never released on DVD. When I inquired about this on an EFC forum several years ago, it was mentioned that the distribution company only got rights to release seasons 3-5 and that seasons 1 and 2 aren't comming out. Go figure... At least I was able to hunt down the suprnova mirror (wasn't listed on torrent reactor which is still up) which will work for getting the rest of that. Whether it will include new torrents or not, or just a copy of the old stuff...can't say.
