>>>Delay in distribution means more people pushed to torrents.
No because they are cracking-down on that avenue. I just received my 3rd copyright notice this past week (1 and 2 date back to Christmas 2008), and I've been told #4 will result in termination of my Verizon account. So bottom line: People will soon be faced with having to wait for the delayed DVD rental, or purchase it now.
Also:
This isn't the first time movie studios have pulled stunts like this. Back in the early 90s when VHS was king, my local video store told me I could buy Disney's Aladdin but it would cost $90. I asked why the outrageous price, and they explained the price is kept high for one month to encourage rentals..... and then dropped to a more-reasonable $25.
Movie studios are always trying to control the free market. Record companies too. They forced Walmart, Kmart, and other retailers to stop selling CDs at budget prices of $8 or $9, raise the minimum price to $13, or else the record companies would stop shipments. This continued from circa 1990 to 2000 when the U.S. DOJ stepped-in and sued the record companies for forming an illegal Cartel. (My family, collectively, received five checks of $19 each as settlements.)
You can't trust corporations. They are filled with avarice, love of money, and will do what is necessary to increase it.
Um, you get notices because you are a stupid idiot who didn't do his research on how to keep those from happening.
torrents are still going strong, but it's cool if the idiots (like you) think otherwise.
Did you bother doing any research on how to avoid those notices? If you had, you'd see it's really easy.
It's you beginner criminals that crack me up. Whats the difference between successful criminals and you? You assume your safe "because others are doing it". Successful criminals take the time to study what they are doing, learn how it works, then they do what they got to do.
oh, ya, you end up in jail right away, why the successful ones don't.
