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Because the best way to convince a producer to lower the price of their goods is buy lowering the ROI for said producer. That totally works.

You'd rather people support the making of good movies by paying to see bad ones? That makes even less sense.

I'd rather see people support the making of movies they watch and therefore want to see on some level. Piracy to me means that you think it's good enough to enjoy, but not enough to reimburse the creators. I don't see how this can be helpful on any level to an economy, let alone the quality of future products by the company.

Frankly, I don't think piracy is nearly as big a deal as the movie companies would like us to think. I've rarely known anyone who pirated something that they were willing to pay to see (unless they actually paid to see it first).

Again, the idea of pirating something you aren't willing to pay for on some level doesn't make any sense to me. If there is some desire in you to use a product, there will be a level you are willing to pay/work/whatever to use it, from my view at least. If you don't want to reimburse the creator of something at all for their product while using it that's a problem on your end. I may not want to pay $50k for a car despite wanting said car, but I think we can agree my solution should not just be to take it. My experiences with piracy are the opposite. People I know pirate what they want to see/play, but just don't wanna pay anything for because they have a way to get it for free. This doesn't really fly in an other area of commerce, not sure why you think it should here.

Movies for two people plus any food at said movies can cost upwards of $50 a pop these days.

There's a good reason that I generally wait until Tuesday's when tickets are half price at my theater and bring any snacks I may want with me.

Man, sorry the tickets at your place cost so much. Highest around here is $9.75, and there are a vast number of ways to get it down to $7. I don't know many people who buy the food at the theater, but unless I'm mistaken the profit a theater makes on concessions does not affect the film companies, so that's a different matter.