Dvd screeners dont show up until 1 month before the movie hits the dvd, plus they dont have all the fancy options of dvds By that time, the studios already made most of their profit from the theaters. Also why should I pay Pedro $7 who owns his own stand at downtown LA for a bootleg copy of movie that has a cover that looks like its printed on a xerox machine and the words "dvd-r" still etched on the dvd hwhen I can just shell out $15 for a brand new one

Pedro wants you.

I'm talking about downloading them.


I saw Million Dollar Baby and the other Oscar contenders available for download on Usenet.

Downloading movies off the net isn't really much different than recording off of TV. Same with recording music. The thing is, when it's new, that's the only opportunity that it will ever have to sell big to the masses, so when the masses are stealing it, they are hurting the industry. If somebody records something off of a friend, at least somebody paid for it. I was never big on owning copies, as I preferred to buy the whole package myself.

I don't really get into downloading from sources off the net. I did tell Lecter to download Million Dollar Baby, but I also told him to pay to see it when it comes out, so that's not so bad.

I won a copyright infringement lawsuit, and it's not a good feeling to know that somebody took your original work without asking, and it's an even worse feeling to know they were selling it in a commercial venue that you didn't approve of.

On the other side, it's thing like this that keep prices down. If it wasn't for the threat of illegal downloading seriously hurting the industries, I can only imagine the prices that the crooks at the music and movie companies would be charging us. There are some benefits to it for us, so I don't really make too big of an issue about it, but I prefer to pay for stuff, not just help myself.