<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Jan 29, 2007, at 16.46, Tu Holmes wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><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:</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">I think most people pirate movies they wouldn't buy anyway, even for $5. I think most people use piracy as a way around the movie rental business. Especially students, who would rather spend their money on cheap booze than renting a movie.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Part of that is because movie piracy is currently kind of a pain. Finding a decent-quality torrent, spending days waiting for it to download, and then figuring out how to re-encode it onto a DVD (if that's your end goal) is a lot of work. Students do it because they have more time than money. My time has value, so I just subscribe to Netflix. For $15/month it's cheaper to rent the stuff legally than to 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!</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Yeah, I like the idea of watching the first season of Futurama on my iPod at the gym, instead of watching whatever crappy show is on TV.</DIV></BODY></HTML>