The Double-Dip Mentality

[Occhidiangela]

And I'm getting sick and tired of your politically correct defending of the music and film industry.

eppie, they happen to have the law on their side. Consider how important law is to you, to your community, to your country, to the international community.

I advice you to use you obvious great sense of justice (which is a good thing by the way) to defend groups of people that really deserve it. Like homeless people, 3rd world country children and the environment.

Why do you make the presumption that he doesn't? You reply is tangential to the point and a red herring. Where do you get off assuming undesirable or heartless traits in someone you disagree with on a particular topic? That sort of illogic is called "the reverse halo effect" and it leads to errors in judgment. Trust me on that one, I've walked a mile or two in that pair of manure encrusted boots. ;) Heck, you've seen part of that hike.

Seriously do you really expect normal people to buy all those extra releases for the price the film business asks for it?

No. Pete is suggesting that consumers use their brains, not get sucked in by hype, and defeat the evil conglomerates by not acting like a sheep. Or, one can blissfully wander through life in the Gumpesque mode, demonstrating that "stupid is as stupid does." The choice is in the hands of the consumer.

These guys just try to milk us as much as they can......and if nobody came with the brilliant idea to copy music and films for free, the stuff would be even more expensive.

Yes, and fools get milked, right along with goats and cattle. They smell about the same. I direct your attention to PT Barnum: "There is a sucker born every minute, and two to take him."

And let's be real, everybody has his budget for spending on music and movies...if the stuff costs more he just buys less, .....but he still spends the same amount.

Let's get more real. Smart shoppers get more for their money than easily fleeced rubes.

You might want to revisit Pete's comment on the age of caveat emptor

Occhi