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by paul9290 5812 days ago
It's 2010 and at least here in the U.S. the pirating activities of millions prompted Hulu, Vevo and other great legal sites to get content. Hollywood bended which is great and downloading is so 2005. If your pirating and outside the US then more power to you as you dont have legal alternatives - yet.

If your in the US I wonder why are you still pirating copyrighted material? Im curious to hear...
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jrockway 5812 days ago
Why would I pay $10 a month to watch old TV shows with ads in a Flash-only player when I can pirate and get hours-old ad-free HD TV shows that play anywhere?

Fuck DRM. When the video-distribution industry gets rid of DRM, then I'll buy video online. When my favorite TV shows are available for $10 a season in 1080p without DRM (and with episodes released before the official airtime, preferably), I will be the first to sign up. Until then, the pirates provide a significantly better product. For free.

The music industry figured it out. I have no trouble buying music I like in a lossless format these days, and there is never DRM. So why not the video industry? Their product is significantly more disposable than music, and yet it costs more and they use more "technology" to "protect" it. It doesn't make sense.

(I listen to songs over and over again. I watch a TV show once, and then delete it to free up hard drive space for more TV shows.)

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starkfist 5812 days ago
Why do you care about DRM on the TV show if you only watch the TV show once?
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jrockway 5812 days ago
Because DRM'd files do not play on my phone, under Linux, etc.

Plus, I want to decide how many times I watch something, I don't need some shitty computer program to do it for me.

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starkfist 5812 days ago
ah, yeah well that makes sense.

Personally I only watch 2 tv programs and just buy them at iTunes because it's easier than dealing with all the bittorrent crap.

I used to do the pirate stuff but then I got old and stopped caring about music, entertainment, etc.

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Yaggo 5812 days ago
Not every player/device plays DRM'd stuff?
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someone_here 5812 days ago
I'm in canada and pirating is the only way to get the content on my phone.
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