Do you guys get the "Jim's DVD has perfect sound/Bob's DVD doesn't..." bullshit as well?
We rarely download, and rent legitimately, but that advert just makes me want to pirate stuff; "Jim's DVD is for a film released months ago that all his friends have seen, Bob's is for a film that only hit the theatres last week".
I've never seen that one. I see: "You wouldn't steal a car... You wouldn't steal a *something else*... You wouldn't steal a DVD (image of someone putting a dvd in their jacket) *rewind* buying pirated DVDs is stealing!" My favorite part is that they are apparently more worried about me buying a DVD off the street in ChinaTown than my downloading one. :P
I _suspect_ he got it from my daily links post, and I got it from Supergee on Dreamwidth who has all sorts of cool links. Supergee said he got it from Making Light, but I can't find it over there.
Of course, The Lord Of Weasels might have got it direct from any of the above, or in a completely different direction.
You were, I think, the third time I'd seen that image. Immediately after I say it from you I saw it on ryusen and pope_guilty sent it to me via IM about two hours after I posted this.
I *think* the original sighting, for me, was spurious_logic. If it wasn't, it was endotoxin.
But yeah. This one's kinda been super-popular yesterday.
Usually by "pirated DVD" I mean "direct copy of the originals for the film, taken by a production or theatre employee and made available electronically". When I don't mean that, I mean "the third-world factory where you make your DVDs made the million you paid for and then made a million more without your annoying shit and sold them for twice what they cost to make on the black market, which is to say like $0.30 apiece. Which is more than you paid them for the original run, I'm just saying."
Cameras in theatres are both stupid *and* totally not where most of the piracy comes from.
The pricing structure on tv series on dvd was complementary to that for a long time. Its changed a bit now they've realised people will shrug and download it if you charge too much.
our downloading profile has also pushed many tv stations to air (at least the 'more' 'popular') tv shows as soon after their first airing in the usa as they can.
[if i can download and watch a perfectly good copy of the show within 12-24 hours of it's release in the us, why would i wait 6-24 months to watch it via a tv station here?]
while we can compare our pricing with other countries, we can't access those other pricing options, so we work with what we have locally.
aussies, generally speaking, are early adopters. our businesses tend to be late adopters (with an aversion to investing in new tech, particularly homegrown tech).
quality of service is beginning to become a serious differentiator in the isp market now, though 'cheap' still rules. we still have quota-based pricing in a large part because vendors can, but also because the majority of infrastructure is still owned by one vendor (though that balance is rapidly tipping, and pricing profiles with it).
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Date: 2010-02-20 03:09 am (UTC)Thanks for making the day much more bearable!!
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Date: 2010-02-20 03:09 am (UTC)We rarely download, and rent legitimately, but that advert just makes me want to pirate stuff; "Jim's DVD is for a film released months ago that all his friends have seen, Bob's is for a film that only hit the theatres last week".
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Date: 2010-02-20 03:13 am (UTC)Ever.
For anything.
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Date: 2010-02-20 03:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 03:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 06:43 am (UTC)"You wouldn't steal a car...
You wouldn't steal a *something else*...
You wouldn't steal a DVD (image of someone putting a dvd in their jacket)
*rewind*
buying pirated DVDs is stealing!"
My favorite part is that they are apparently more worried about me buying a DVD off the street in ChinaTown than my downloading one. :P
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Date: 2010-02-20 07:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 07:36 am (UTC)lol
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Date: 2010-02-20 07:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 07:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 07:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 08:18 am (UTC)there have been arguments that aussies are, per capita, the most prolific downloaders on the planet.
dunno about that myself (though i chew through 70G/month) most of the figures i've ever seen from the copyhoaders have been made up on napkins.
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Date: 2010-02-20 08:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 10:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 10:32 am (UTC)It cracks me up every time I see it. So much in fact I bought the original DVD of the IT crowd. Turned out to be a great series!
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Date: 2010-02-20 10:33 am (UTC)Great minds think alike.
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Date: 2010-02-20 12:13 pm (UTC)More like...
"Watch (sometimes out of focus, poor sdound quality, people's heads in the way you can even hear them talking over the movie) movie."
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Date: 2010-02-20 12:48 pm (UTC)Of course, The Lord Of Weasels might have got it direct from any of the above, or in a completely different direction.
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Date: 2010-02-20 02:47 pm (UTC)I *think* the original sighting, for me, was
But yeah. This one's kinda been super-popular yesterday.
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Date: 2010-02-20 02:51 pm (UTC)Cameras in theatres are both stupid *and* totally not where most of the piracy comes from.
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Date: 2010-02-20 03:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 03:39 pm (UTC)*laugh*
Date: 2010-02-20 06:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 09:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 09:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 10:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 11:47 pm (UTC)Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me
Date: 2010-02-21 12:46 am (UTC)Re: Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me
Date: 2010-02-21 12:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-21 01:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-21 02:59 am (UTC)[if i can download and watch a perfectly good copy of the show within 12-24 hours of it's release in the us, why would i wait 6-24 months to watch it via a tv station here?]
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Date: 2010-02-21 03:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-21 03:06 am (UTC)aussies, generally speaking, are early adopters. our businesses tend to be late adopters (with an aversion to investing in new tech, particularly homegrown tech).
quality of service is beginning to become a serious differentiator in the isp market now, though 'cheap' still rules. we still have quota-based pricing in a large part because vendors can, but also because the majority of infrastructure is still owned by one vendor (though that balance is rapidly tipping, and pricing profiles with it).
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Date: 2010-02-21 04:37 am (UTC)[i don't tend to watch much tv via tv stations these days ...]
Re: Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me
Date: 2010-02-21 06:03 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPwqs8nQR6I
Re: Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me
Date: 2010-02-21 12:09 pm (UTC)Re: Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me
Date: 2010-02-21 02:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-22 05:59 pm (UTC)