ganoncrotch said:
Not to mention those who are financially struggling and don't really have the money to buy any sort of entertainment, like to the point where they simply don't have money to spend on a dvd of frozen for their kids... would you rather that person sits there thinking about how shit their life is or that they download a torrent and escape for a while? All the while becoming a statistic of some magic money that they had in their wallets that should have went to Disney.
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That is some serious bullshit. A person has enough money to own a computer and pay for a halfway decent internet connection, i.e. the essential equipment for digital piracy, but is going to cry poor to justify pirating rather than purchasing legally? You people don't even know what poor is. Actual poor people don't have computers and they don't have DVD players on which they can even view pirated content on disc, for which they would have to pay $1. Isn't that a laugh? the people who can afford the computer and internet connection get to pirate Frozen for their kids for free. The actual poor people, if they have a DVD player, have to pay the pirates $1 to be able to get Frozen for their kids. Even the pirates screw over the truly poor.
It would be such a joke this whole not really poor people crying poor to justify piracy if it wasn't so damned ignorant of what real poverty is. People who have computers but can't afford to buy a movie or game legitimately are just prioritising their spending differntly. Besides, they don't need to buy Frozen on new release, they can buy a back catalogue movie for $3 legitimately. Or here's a thought, they can watch regular free to air TV.
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