if it wasn't available "for free", more people would buy it, hence pirates steal customers.
but more importantly: is asshole fever worth it?
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Hollywood studios caught pirating movies on BitTorrent
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if it wasn't available "for free", more people would buy it, hence pirates steal customers.
but more importantly: is asshole fever worth it?
I can't stop laughing at this.
Hydrogen Bluebird
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Someone from Sony Pictures pirated an Xbox 360 game? lol
But give the person watching Person of Interest at Disney a promotion.
Hydrogen Bluebird
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Agreed
Well that doesn't make sense either.
A Ferrari costs money to produce. So does every Movie, Game and so on.
edit:I mean I know what you are referring to, but don't think it's right, just because a movie is "digital" after is has been created.
spindashing
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AssHole Fever, I must see this film
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Ioana ain't worth it.
FelixOrion
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The chick in that asshole fever video looks somewhat like Brittany Murphy.
Probably can't post the rest of the screengrabs, lol.
Not bad
You wouldn't download a fleshlight...
Lionel Mandrake
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We got asshole fever!
There is absolutely no shortage of people in Hollywood who pirate and share as much content as they can. I can't tell you how many times someone has announced in my office that they've downloaded some leaked album and throw it on a USB drive to give to anyone even remotely interested.
They just want free shit.
On the same note, gotta love the people who get screeners and immediately start renting them out to coworkers. I'd love to know how much money Hollywood potentially loses from unintended viewers. The people scrambling to view Zero Dark Thirty on screener a week before the limited release would otherwise be an incredibly easy ticket sale.
They just want free shit.
On the same note, gotta love the people who get screeners and immediately start renting them out to coworkers. I'd love to know how much money Hollywood potentially loses from unintended viewers. The people scrambling to view Zero Dark Thirty on screener a week before the limited release would otherwise be an incredibly easy ticket sale.
You could still argue that there's no damage done. When some person who has 0$ watches the movie illegally he's violating the rights but he's not doing damage to anyone since there's no possibility for him buying it.
Also does Assholefever sound like a really nasty disease when you think about it
The chick in that asshole fever video looks somewhat like Brittany Murphy.
Probably can't post the rest of the screengrabs, lol.
lol Ninja Bows
Darkmakaimura
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Who are these employees that are illegally downloading these movies, although? Are they executives or lowly worker bees with access to the Internet?
It was an executive order handed down from the CEOs to pirate things.
The hell? That movie was terrible. And the interviews with Mark Duplass have kind of soured me on his character in The League just based on how douchey he (and his brother) comes off. But that movie. I was expecting SOMETHING good just based on the cast, but it was probably the most by the numbers, obvious, non challenging, non aspiring, boring, and tepid movie that wasn't for kids or a horror movie that I've seen in years. I watched the Half in the Bag review on it months after I saw it and it summed up pretty much everything I felt when I watched it.
Somebody who downloads GBs of data, has a device to watch it on, and the time to watch it probably doesn't have $0.
Good Job Bob
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I know I'm not the only person to download Asshole Fever after reading this thread..
spindashing
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Darkmakaimura
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Um, or eh, games according to those charts.
Sgt.Pepper
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lmao
Messofanego
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Well then, good thing I missed out on it. I like the Duplass movies. But the trailer gave it a really generic indie movie feel.
True. It's a rather unrealistic example, though I think it shows how pirating and stealing are not quite the same thing.
I agree they are not the same thing. I just think using unrealistic examples as a way of showing the distinction is poor given they are... unrealistic.
Anybody consuming pirated media has the ability to pay some amount for that media. Distribution issues aside, suggesting they could not be a paying customer is weak. They choose not to be a paying customer and proactively opt into piracy. And in doing so, they reinforce their behaviour and expectations of value.
The only argument I think I'd I'd accept for someone downloading but not being a potential customer is the "collector" who stores material but doesn't consume it (even then they still damage the ecosystem as a facilitator of piracy). If you actually consume content, you are ascribing value to it, regardless of whether you compensated the IP holder or not at any level.
Damaging rights causes no harm. Ah yes. And when you bring up that wrong example ( if you are downloading something you have money to pay for a internet access, a PC, ... but none for a movie? ) America has quite some history of spending money without having it.
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The chick in that asshole fever video looks somewhat like Brittany Murphy.
Probably can't post the rest of the screengrabs, lol.
Someone cross-reference this with Greg Land's art.
Laughing Banana
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Goddamn it I am laughing so hard at Asshole Fever I don't know why hahahahaha.
Darkmakaimura
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Employees (and by that I mean certain managers and whatnot) of certain console developers are not shy about sharing with their employees regarding pirated software, modded consoles (both their own and competitors), etc.
Diddy Kong
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I heard it stinks.
Darkmakaimura
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I thought it was pretty anal.
Conservative groups were pretty butthurt over it.
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