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Why do anti-piracy people often treat us as the "villains" of the story?
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I stand by what I said: if everyone pirated, no one would be making or funding big-budget movies because there would be no money to be made. Coming up with alternative payment systems for the media we consume is all well and good, but that’s not piracy - it actually just reinforces my point about paying being the moral thing to do. My argument isn’t that the current system is good; it’s that piracy wouldn’t be sustainable if everyone started doing it.
If everyone were doing it, it wouldn't be piracy. It would be free, legal copying.
I just presented you with several models of how big budget movies could make money, even if everyone were freely, legally copying. You haven't responded to that argument, you've merely ignored it and insisted on your original point.
I don't feel like defending a view that I don't hold. I don't get the sense from your replies that you've even understood my argument.
I haven't said that.
I haven't said that either.
Correct me if I'm wrong but that sounds a lot like paying for the content
This sounds like paying for the content too.
Recompensed? Sounds like getting paid.
To me it seems like there's no disagreement here.