you make a good point.

What income brackets would you actually feel bad for a woman who is only making 2/3s of what her male peers are making to do the exact same thing?

I was responding to someone who said they don’t pirate because it is like stealing, so they wait for the DVDs to show up at the library so they can watch them for free.

Had no idea, my apologies then. Studios don’t even sell the dvds 6 months after release for the price of a single ticket, so that is obviously crazy!

yeah I think we are on the same page!

Unless I am mistaken, this is the post you were responding to, I didn’t see anything related to pricing mentioned for the in-home streaming of a new release...

I know nothing about Anime so I can’t speak to that specifically, but as you said, it hasn’t been cancelled.

I am not comparing the library to pirate bay, I fully support and use my local library.

I’m reasonably sure that video piracy has played a part in more shitty television and film scripts getting greenlit. Particularly sequels that no one asked for.

some people are capable of being poor and also caring about equality, simultaneously.

I am on your side but you are not making salient points.

And this is the problem right here. Just because content no longer has a physical form, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have value.

you are extremely naive if this actually surprises you

huh?

 Why would a movie studio release a movie for home viewing at the same price as a theater?

Shows get cancelled and created all the time, it’s an endless cycle that doesn’t appear to have been impacted by pirating over the last 10 years.

I’m in sales / rule 1 is “take the money.”

is someone who is watching a free library copy of a movie any more likely to pay real money for that movie than someone watching a free pirated version of the movie? I would guess not.

how is that any different from pirating? Somewhere in the chain of pirating, someone has paid for HBO or has purchased the DVDs.

yeah just about everyone liked the bucks logo change a year or two back. There will always be people that don’t like them just so that side is represented.