http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of-oink-birth-of.html

We already pay in so many ways whether it be the additional money on a wide range of goods (which funds TV & radio through advertising) or direct TV charges.

Largely all downloading (for ‘free) on the net does is allow convenient timing in my watching or listening.
I already pay for & get all that I download on my pay-TV service.
I am not getting anything I would otherwise not get.
I do ’support’ the TV, music & movie industry already, with a substantial monthly payment. They are not getting any more.

That said, the music & movie business might as well go pi$$ up a rope trying to stop sharing
(the cassette ‘piracy’ logo proves just how long their ridiculous, lying & futile campaign has been tried).

Sharing is not theft.
No-one believes it is so.

The guy selling 200 dodgy copies of DVDs or CDs at a flea-market is the thief.
Everyone knows that.

Ironically the biggest real thieves and pirates any artist can encounter are in fact the music & movie industry…..as countless court cases over the decades prove.
Everyone knows that too.

Sooner rather than later the industry is going to have to wake up & start selling content with attractive ‘added value’ that the customer will want and will want to buy.
Obviously that will cost a few pennies more.

Otherwise the parasites will continue to be bypassed by the artists and the public.

Frankly if all they can do is what they do right now then they are utterly irrelevant & superfluous – as growing numbers of artists like Radiohead are proving
(people forget that whilst Radiohead were sometimes only paid pennies for their last album that is still more than they made per sale from their record company).

If movie piracy is such a big “problem”, weren’t last year’s box office receipts the largest ever?