Another person confusing physical objects with ephemeral bits and bytes. How many times have you watched that MPAA warning video? You still haven’t answered what the difference is between me “stealing” it and simply not seeing it. In fact, you almost made it seem like the theft was a positive.

Yeah, but they made that meal because I asked them to. And because of me those materials can’t be sold again. I didn’t ask for the shitty movie. That’s their problem. Don’t give me something I didn’t ask for. And they can sell that same effort to billions of other people even if I don’t pay for it.

Please tell me what the difference is between me not seeing it and not paying to see it. Physically. To the industry. How can they tell the difference? They can’t. But I can see the shit movie, understand it’s shittiness, and also not feed another shit movie. Only difference is I saw the movie.

Physical object not the same as zeros and ones. One prevents a sale. The other was never going to be a sale .

Sorry, I meant “not an American”. I’m not cheering for anyone to get cut, but I am cheering for a harmful industry to end. Other industries will pop up. Oil and coal people can move out west an be techs at solar and wind farms. Electric car companies will hire gas car ex-employees. Good movies will hire people from…

You seem to be implying in your posts that you’re an American, so let me tell you, as one, how sick I am of people whining that they deserve their job and only their job. Our melted orange popsicle of a president was elected by people like this. Coal sucks. Oil sucks. Your movie sucks. You are not entitled to revenue…

You lost the logical fight, so you resorted to ad hominem. Congrats.

Make better products!

Make better products!

I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime. That’s about as much as I’m prepared to pay. If a studio’s are going to make exclusive deals on twenty different providers in order to nickel and dime me to death I’m not playing. That’s what torrents are for. If they want my money they know where to find me.

The point you just made is that goods that aren’t needed don’t make money and the people producing them don’t have a right to profit.

Why do you think a person has a RIGHT to make money off of a crappy product. Stealing a film is basically the same as not seeing it. Makes something I’m willing to pay for and I’ll pay you for it. Otherwise I’m torrenting your trash and chucking it after one viewing.

I haven’t spent a dime on a single piece of blockbuster superhero bullcrap in decades. I download them, see what the fuss it, and toss them. Sometimes a polish theater recording is good enough. And yet, they keep plunking down hundreds of millions per film to make this trash. I don’t seem to be influencing a thing.

This show is so cancelled. I don’t say that with any glee. But there’s only a half million people watching it. That’s bad for cable tv and this is network. I do admit I’m not enjoying this season as much. Without the love triangle there’s not much point in it existing. And the songs aren’t as good. I don’t remember a…

“I never said anything about what kind of president she’d have made.” can you read. I actually didn’t like the way Bill ran the country. I listed why. I still think Hillary would have done a passable job, maybe even good. That has nothing to do with how good a race she ran.

I never said anything about what kind of president she’d have made. I’m sure things would have been fine for the country between the constant investigations into her many dealings. I’m glad she inspired you. She didn’t inspire me or my wife, though we faked it in front of my daughter. Mostly because her name was…

Hillary just didn’t inspire people. Whether it was because she was a woman or because she was a dull, listless candidate who’s husband was a huge liability I can’t say for sure. I am angry at her, though. I’m angry that she didn’t make herself into the kind of far reaching personality Obama (and Trump) did. I’m mad…

Fuck Hillary Clinton for running a race that was against her opponent and not for herself. For standing back hoping the other guy will look worse than her. That’s what Kerry did in 2004. It didn’t fucking work. You can’t just hope the other guy in the ring punches himself enough to knock himself out. I’m not saying…

It really is. I’m glad you agree.

Isn’t it interesting that white directors make so many movies that require an all white cast? There is no actual hand tying here. Hollywood chooses to preference white centric movies. That’s a choice.