Quote Originally Posted by MecaKane
If that's true, stealing is just as acceptable as exploiting anything and everything to get your movie profits up, not talking about shutting down torrent sites, but not paying the crew what they deserve, false advertising, not to mention making formulaic movies with no creativitiy what so ever. You just want to save your money by not paying for something not as important to you, and they just want to put asses in the seats. Wait, people who steal, even from good producers, jip them out of a $10 movie ticket and a $20 DVD, even times 52 movies a year that they might download, while asshole producers jip lots of people out of hundred of thousands of dollars. There's much worse things you can do to have as much money as they can than downloading movies and music for free.
It's like I mentioned earlier...either here, on my webpage, or on my LJ. Just because people exploit others does not warrant you to do the same. Sure, maybe one person might download one movie illegally and do it often. To you that doesn't seem like much. But there's almost always millions of people doing this, and when you add that up, it's sure to hit anyone's wallet hard, no matter how rich they are.

You get the false impression that I think producers are the utmost good. No. I don't. Almost everyone in the entertainment business is overpaid IMO, but that doesn't warrant anyone to steal.

When you pay $15 for a DVD, part of the money goes to the producers, part to the retailer, part to the state, and part to the employee. So when you steal, you take a portion of an employee's paycheck. So much for not having a job. With this last paragraph, I dare anyone to truly justify stealing an employee's paycheck, whom, is just like you. They're probably paid $8/hr, but it's still money that comes from these DVDs and such. Your education, assuming you're still in public schools or receiving financial aid for college, is paid for in part by these DVD sales. That's why I defend gov't policy to raid these people who take away so much from employees and gov't.