Pirating movies
Movie piracy is
on the rise and no one seems to understand if it is illegal or not. It is a
serious offense, and yet even the few people that know the truth keep doing
what they want besides the fact. “There is a Robin Hood effect – most people
perceive celebrities and studios to be rich already, and as a result don’t
think of movie downloading as a big deal, “commented Kaan Yigit, Study
Director. The increasing ease of downloading movies, through broadband and
compression technologies, along with high movie ticket prices, and wide film
availability online were cited as factors driving consumers to download. Many
studies have been made, and it is not only happening in just America, but all
around the globe too. Numerous people are downloading, uploading, transferring,
configuring, and copying what they get for profit while movie industries are
losing billions of dollars to these people. So yes, you can be charged for
downloading movies off of Limewire or something, and if you have been a busy
bee downloading off of a file sharing program you could be fined for copyright infringement
and then sued for compensation which can amount to hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
Pirating movies is definitely is not the thing to do, and it surprises
me that all these thing are able to remain
out there for such open use. What
mainly goes through my mind is the billions of dollars that the movie
industry
is losing. But, really though it amazes how movies that are still in theaters
are basically just waiting
for me to download and use to show my friends. I
mean why else do you think that so many people are
doing this? They do it to
keep themselves entertained and it doesn’t cost them any money to do so. By
doing
this they get hours of entertainment for free and all it took was some
time to let it download onto the
computer. I also feel as though in distant
future torrenting files will still be around, and the only difference will
be
that it will be much quicker.
I know people who pirate movies and I cant understand it. I don’t understand how it is available and how more people aren’t getting caught. I think driving to the movie store and renting a movie, or going to redbox is pretty easy. You can also go to Best Buy and buy the movie and have it longer then you would if you download illegally. Also downloading never works right and can ruin the quality of the movie. Why are people risking thousands of dollars when a movie costs like 25 bucks or less at the store to buy it and renting is only a few dollars for a couple nights.
ReplyDeleteWith all the advances in technology we also have on demand available at in homes now which people can take advantage of without even leaving their homes. I just think there are so many alternatives that people should not be pirating.
I think that this is a big issue with movies and music and even now games. people don't want to pay for things any more so they steal them its crazy. I know that it is easy to just go online start using a downloading site like lime wire, but the ethics behind that is bad.Cause you are taking away from money that does not belong to you. there are so many other ways to do things use a online movie streamer like Netflix. You could go out an watch the movie or even redbox it no there are so many entertainment options. I think there should be more policies and enforcement to prevent this from happening. It would be the only fair way to get people from pirating movies.
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