<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Brodbeck</b> <<a href="mailto:gull@gull.us">gull@gull.us</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Steven Adeff wrote:<br>> I think most people pirate movies they wouldn't buy anyway, even for<br>> $5. I think most people use piracy as a way around the movie rental<br>> business. Especially students, who would rather spend their money on
<br>> cheap booze than renting a movie.<br>><br><br>Part of that is because movie piracy is currently kind of a pain.<br>Finding a decent-quality torrent, spending days waiting for it to<br>download, and then figuring out how to re-encode it onto a DVD (if
<br>that's your end goal) is a lot of work. Students do it because they<br>have more time than money. My time has value, so I just subscribe to<br>Netflix. For $15/month it's cheaper to rent the stuff legally than to
<br>use my valuable time trying to figure out how to beat the system.</blockquote><div><br><br>This is true... plus, if you feel like copying the DVD to a nicer format... you can! <br><br>Not that "I" would do that of course.
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