Topic: Thats a lot of movies

[idolminds]

Yikes. Where would you find the time to even watch them?

[iPPi]

What's with the 'D-V-D'.  Who the hell separates an acronym with dashes.

[Quemaqua]

I was just going to say the same thing.  Weird story, but I find the D-V-D thing to be far more interesting and disturbing.

But yeah, thousands of movies?  That's pretty crazy.

[nickclone]

He actually had a good idea, but I would've copied them and sent them back on the next day.

[Quemaqua]

Your definition of "good idea" obviously differs widely from mine.

[nickclone]

Your definition of "good idea" obviously differs widely from mine.

Haha, putting yourself in that kind of situation is never a good idea. However, I feel the premise of his idea wasn't that bad of an idea.

[Quemaqua]

I think what's more common is people just ordering the disks and actually paying the rental fees, then copying everything that gets sent to them.  I can't tell you how many people I know that do that.  It drives me a little nuts.

[nickclone]

Why does it drive you nuts?

[Quemaqua]

I guess the justification of mass theft is one of my buttons.  It's one thing to download the occasional thing on the internet, another to stock your entire library with shit you didn't pay for and never had any intention of paying for, especially while abusing another legitimate service to do it.  It's just so common now.  I see people who have more money than I do yet do this obsessively, and that's just sort of aggravating.

[nickclone]

I guess the justification of mass theft is one of my buttons.  It's one thing to download the occasional thing on the internet, another to stock your entire library with shit you didn't pay for and never had any intention of paying for, especially while abusing another legitimate service to do it.  It's just so common now.  I see people who have more money than I do yet do this obsessively, and that's just sort of aggravating.

I guess I shouldn't tell you about my flashcart huh?

I think some people do the whole movie copying thing because it's also a hobby or like collecting stamps to them. I still illegally download MP3s, I like searching and finding them...especially the rare or hard to find songs.

[Quemaqua]

MP3s I find somewhat more understandable.  A lot of times it's an individual song you like but you aren't going to go buy the whole album.  Okay, who wants to pay 15 bucks for a hard copy of a single song?  Nobody.  Granted, now you can buy songs online and stuff, but I guess that's where there's a disconnect for me.  I don't do MP3s and stuff anymore, really, so my brain is still stuck back in the days when Napster was free and you could download gigs of random crap you didn't need.

Meh. Anyway, I've never condoned piracy or stealing, but for some reason it gets to me more with certain things than others.  Maybe those distinctions are arbitrary in the end, but people copying movies just gets on my nerves.

[nickclone]

I've never had a problem with people pirating movies or music. The RIAA and the MPAA tries to say that they lose billions from it, but they have no way of knowing that and any loss is hardly a blip on their financial radar.

Movies and music is just so bad nowadays that I don't even care to steal it like I used to.

[Antares]

I've got no issue with casual piracy, but I'm with que when it comes to people stocking their entire media library with copied goods.  It especially pisses me off when it comes down to stealing from people/groups that really do need every sale to keep going

[Raisa]

ha! you should see my aunt's library.  Both pirated and authentic.  And she gets to watch them all cause all she does is eat chocolate and ice cream and lie in bed watching TV or movies.  Go figure.. she's going to be as big as her bed soon enough.