Posted: Jan 20, 2012 11:05 pm
JoeB wrote:Gotta love the 'lost revenue' crap.
"Hey Larry, let's go count all the downloads of our movie, and assume that every download was one purchase if it couldn't have been downloaded for free. Wow 500 million copies ?!"...
Yes I know one of the pictures is Stan Lee...but it makes a good point otherwise...
In some countries...Australia included so it isn't just tird world backwaters...there are just some movies you simply cannot get. I eventually tracked down a DVD copy of Fritz Langs "Metropolis", the one with the Georgio Moroder and Queen soundtrack, but I had to search the net for weeks until I found a little mob in Buttfuck Nowhere, USA, who remastered old movies onto DVD, and bought a copy. I couldn't even find it on any of the usual file sharing websites, so I had to buy it, but if I had found it for free first, i'd have downloaded it in a second and ended my frustration.
Same with music...some albums, especially older ones, just aren't available anymore, at least at a reasonable cost, sometimes not in your country, so you can't blame people for finding it for free..