I download music, and I don't buy DVD's. I rent DVD's at the store and rip them if I want a movie. I have about 30-35 Blu-ray titles. I was willing to buy movies that I wanted on Blu-Ray to show my support for the format and because I love hi-def media. The Blu-Ray BOGO's made it a lot easier to stock up too, as well as the sick deals you can get online.
I will probably pirate Blu-Rays too eventually, but right now the cost of entry for the hardware is too high. A good burner is AT LEAST $300 (and I don't have a PC to put it in either...) and the discs are $10 a pop if you are lucky. I would have had to pay more burning the Blade Runner Collectors set (5 discs) than it would have cost me to buy it. That is my definition of too high of a barrier of entry.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
