Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
If that were the case then I wonder where they are supposed to get the money for a 100,000,000$ movie production from? Or does everybody prefer amateur short films?

It's kind of hard to run a business without any income, it's even harder to sustain a family without any income, I suggest you try it. Of course there are other jobs those people could pursue, like washing dishes, and then everybody could watch them do that for free.
Well, my view of piracy is as follows:

The vast majority of pirates are those who either don't have enough money to buy games or want to just try out games that they would have normally never bought.

Now in both situations, the industry would have never seen the people's money. True, there are a minorty of the piracy population, i think, who never buy games, rent DVDs, go to the theaters, ect... but they are not the biggest.

In fact, the pirates are being exposed to new things that they may have gotten access to otherwise. If they truly like whatever product they pirated, the odds are that they would become a fan of the product and actually spend money to get it.

I think piracy is being used as a scapegoat for the declining music industry and what not. The fact is the vast majority of people have no idea how to use torrents and such to get pirated items. So, the general loss in revenue has alot more to do with the industry's declining standards or products rather than the horrible piracy that apparently everyone and their mother uses.

The thing is that great movie for the foreseeable future will always make money. Look at the Dark Knight, it has made hundreds of millions and has paid its 80 million dollar budget (iirc) many times over. I don't see anyone complaining how low the box office numbers for it was. Instead, the complaining and whining only comes after some movie or computer game does below exception. Of course, there is no chance that your product may be faulty, it must be everyone else's fault