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Originally Posted by MMM
Unfortunately you are in the minority. But you are still stealing and it is still illegal.
When did this sense of privilege to test-drive something before we buy come from? I'll buy a CD from an artist I like without knowing if it is good or not. I pay for a movie at the movie theater before I watch it, not after...and choose to pay whether I liked it or not. The entertainment industry doesn't work that way. You are seeing the results. "Fans" would rather steal than reward those entertaining them for what they received.
All anime that is for sale has promos, commercials, reviews, etc. available for free and legally. Next time go to the publisher's site and check those out instead of downloading, excuse me, stealing and deciding to pay for it, or not, later.
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I have to strongly disagree with you here MMM. He is indeed in the vast majority and that has been reflected by what you have announced in your first post. As Nyororin said, it is only those small die-hard group of otaku's that purchase the overly priced DVD's. The matter-at-hand is that these DVD prices are outrageous and the choice for these companies is by either reduce them severely to a rate that those young kids with not much parental support can buy (including cash-strapped college kids as well) or a new business model (*cough*RIAA*cough*). If they can't achieve any of those things, then go bankrupt; free markets are
not 4-year old playpens, you either make a good product with a good model and failure to achieve either results in failure itself, simple as that. If these companies are looking for empathy, they've got another thing coming to them while trying to raise prices in a back-hand fashion. They aren't getting a single cent out of me till they learn how to play ball.