As for Netflix and services like it, you do not own those movies you are renting them. At 8$ a month and almost every device supported their is absolutely no excuse to pirate any material on it.
As far as theaters are concerned. The movie theater makes a small fraction of the ticket price. I believe my theater told me a year ago that the theater itself made ten percent of the ticket price with twenty percent going to the franchise and 70% to the creators. So they sell ad space prior to the film to make some additional cash and sell popcorn and pop at ridiculously high prices to turn a profit. You are paying for the experience and that theater has every right to sell some ad space before your film. Its not like they are denying you service.
Product pricing is as low as it can get. Companies have huge overhead creating these movies and games. A movie costing 200 million dollars to make needs to retail at 27$ Bluesy the company needs to make its money back and turn a profit so they can produce another product. The more pirates the higher the cost has to go less demand means higher prices for the rest of us. Digital copies are that expensive due to retailers it would be horribly unfair to sell your product 60% cheaper on your online service and then expect a retailer to pay drastically more and make it impossible for the re
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
