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Video raises a good point regarding piracy in the film industry, particularly for independents. While I generally do not condone piracy in many cases, I do participate in it for one main reason: I don't make enough money to actually afford to see or buy the games/movies/music I don't know if I like yet. I download the stuff, and if I am going to get more than 20 minutes worth of enjoyment out of it, you had damn well better believe I'll go out and buy it (In a nod towards Krim, I paid for Marble Blast Ultra on Live and don't even have a 360 ). At the same time, those who pirate this media for their own profit or just because they don't want to spend money on something that they can easily afford annoy the hell out of me... though in the case with music now, unless it's an indie label, I'll pirate the music and buy the (ridiculously overpriced) shirt, and go to the concert, since the real artists will actually see more than a few pennies off of that.

I had a very very long post here. I decided it'd probably incriminate me to post it. Meh.

I am guessing you can figure out which way I voted from that statement. You can probably figure it out if you look really hard for soem forums on my website... which is www.me.com (such subtle hints, really)

If it's out of print and impossible to find, then I don't see a problem. In comics the best example would be the Miracle Man trades, it's not a question of price with them, it's finding someone who's willing to sell them since there will be no reprints for a long while due to legal battle concerning the rights dragging on. Brilliant story that I would not have gotten to read if I hadn't pulled in a lot of favors to get to read it from a guy who owned the trades. In today's world of torrents I could have just grabbed a torrent of it and read it that way.

If the problem in getting it is absurd stupid barriers such as the TV station not showing the damned show until in 3 months even though they've been advertising it for the last month then damn straight I'm gonna find a torrent and grab the latest episode of Heroes the day after it airs in the US.

Here's the thing though, if they reprint Miracle Man or I can find a trade for sale I'll buy it if the price isn't absurd, and when the DVD set comes out on Heroes I'll buy it. The problem for me isn't having to pay for it, it's being allowed to do so or having the opertunity to do so. The thing they fail to understand at times is that when I want it I don't just want it, I want it NOW. Not whenever the local distribu-turds decide I should finally get to see it. I don't give a toss about the middle man in Iceland since I don't need what they're selling (Icelandic subtitles that only detract from my viewing pleasure). I feel no guilt in cutting them out of the picture entirely by grabbing torrents until a buyable DVD becomes available.

I will say one thing, back in the days of Napster I bought more CDs than I ever did back when I was a teenager, or back when I was in my very early 20s. Not because I had more money when Napster was around, but because I got exposed to more music. Now a days I don't buy many CDs anymore, except for soundtracks since they're the only new music I'm really exposed to as I have never listened to the radio much at any point in my life. The music there feels poluted by the god damned japping DJ people who feel the need to expel noise from their orifices during songs, and there's no skip button.

I hear you loud and clear.

check out Shoutcast, its web radio that works with winamp and there are some amazing stations on it.

I hear something I like, Dl some of their stuff to get a feel for what I am getting into and if I like it I hunt them down and buy the stuff.
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who the hell ever heard of these guys on any radio station/mtv/whatever mainstreem media crap you have to listen to?