Illegally downloading movies

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s_is_for_skye

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how many of you do this??

time and time again i read on here about how people have just watched something which isn't out yet at the cinemas and i doubt they are ALL pre-release screenings.

it's a terrible habit i think. i look at the people i work with and the number of them who download films illegally - the film business must be losing so much money. no wonder tickets cost so much!
 
There's such a ridiculous number of top or almost top draw quality screeners for Slumdog Millionaire and The Wrestler available doing the rounRAB at the moment, they could only have been posted on the internet by either the film companies themselves, the distributors, or those associated with them.

No one in the film industry who receives legit screeners for Oscar nomination and voting purposes would post them online. On the basis that all screeners can allegedly be traced back to the person they were sent to, it wouldn't be worth going to jail.

If these films have been placed by the copyright holders in a place where they can be viewed for free by the public, then it's hard to see where any copyright infringement has been committed by anyone viewing those films.
 
Thanks for offering another perspective - you have succeeded in making me feel a bit guilty about it. I would be a lot more inclined to support independent film than big studio productions (the only reason I mentioned Bond etc as worthy of cinema-going is more for the experience, not because I think they are intrinsically more worthy of my cash). It's weird, as I am painfully law-abiding in most other aspects of my life, but seem to have a moral blind spot here. I do appreciate your point about people's livelihooRAB - the same is likely to happen to me (I work in publishing) once e-books take off, as they will in time.
 
I have a 360 but I still wouldnt know what to do.

Anyway I find its more fun going out with a hot guy and seeing the movie at the cinema if I really want to see it.
 
It is not something I suspect people would freely admit doing however when something is so freely and widely available I suspect many do. I also prefer to go to the cinema but as for suspecting or questioning the habits my work colleagues :eek: it would be like being in a knock off Nigel advert.
 
i think you have to take in to account the radiohead experiment as well - when they offered their album for as much as people wanted to pay for it, i'm fairly sure it had something like 80% of people downloading it and not paying anything.

i also liked the ad campaign showing how ordinary people are being affected - it was much more powerful and probably the best anti-piracy ad i've ever seen.

i think the idea of offering movies for download at a nominal fee is a good one.

but then, as with most things online, you need to address the portion of your audience that will always try and get something for nothing.
 
a normal usb stick?

are you sure mate? im sure i have tried that before and the 360 didnt pick up my usb

i was told you have to sync up with windows media player or have a divx player to do that?

do you mena chipped 360's? or elites?

please let me know because i have been looking for something like this for past year!
 
I admit to doing it, but i'll also buy the DVD when it comes out if I really enjoy the film.
And a few times I've downloaded, thought this would look amazing at the cinema and I've gone to the cinema to see it when I normally wouldn't have (Dark Knight and Superman Returns for example).
 
I've never downloaded illegally. I have, however, been given a pirate DVD. It was rubbish. I would much rather go to the cinema or buy the DVD legally when it is released.
 
i do it, i really dont like going to the cinema all the time due to the cost

ok some are bad quality copies some are very good but hey i dont usually mind, if im enjoying the film but its a bad copy then i will either wait til a good copy is out or buy it on dvd when i can
 
I don't buy pirate DVD's but I just download films from torrents online. If I really like the film then I just get it on DVD , no-one loses out :p

I watch new films mostly in the cinema though.
 
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