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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Yeah, all that is true but you mentioned convenience. It's so much more convenient to buy/rent a movie digitally on the day it's released then hunt down a torrent, get it, put it into Plex then stream it. Not saying that is overly difficult but it's super convenient to get movies digitally now. There's no excuse there.
Let's be honest, most of this comes down being too cheap/not wanting to spend money. Free or stealing is always better on the wallet.
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Getting a lower quality copy is definitely easier, but getting the quality that I want leaves me with buying the Blu-Ray or torrenting. And I'm not trying to argue that the free aspect doesn't enable to me to download a lot more than I otherwise would, but then I look at the comparison to video games. As a kid I pirated a ton of PC games because it was easy and you avoided all the DRM that plagued the retail releases. But then Steam comes along, and eventually it got good enough to change my habits completely. I buy every game I play now because they made a platform that was even better than pirating (automatic game patches, friends list, cloud-synced save files, achievements, etc) at a reasonable cost. If my ideal digital movie store was realized then I'd probably switch my habits to be similar to Steam, buy the stuff I really want right away, then wait for price drops or Netflix for the rest
Anyways though we're completely off topic. My original point is that I'm buying Fury Road because it's the first movie in the last 5 years that made me want to own the physical copy, and anyone who hasn't seen it should too