They still do them; https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I..I, um... what? Back to /b/ with you.

Agreed, the more complex something becomes, the more likely there is to be a blindspot or loophole in the design.

This does happen, but quite obvously it's a lot harder to do as you need the reputation of a critic and if you're caught you won't be sent any more films to reveiw, but I see your point. Also, these films have a REALLY annoying text strip every 10 mins saying something like "Property of [blahblah studios]"

I'll give that a read, thanks.

That's true, and I'll admit I hardly ever buy films, but I'm not going to try and justify that what I do "isn't that bad because it hardly affects anyone". I just thought it was an interesting point to make that if someone didn't enjoy a pirated film [and the quality was something to do with that] that they might be put off from buying it or seeing it on the big screen. I think that a lot of people would like to agree with the article because it makes them feel better.

I was focusing on a Pre DVD/Bluray release I guess, because that's what the article seems to focus on. You can't rip a Bluray that isn't out yet.

I was looking at it from an "intellectual property" point of view, I'm not talking about remakes. I have recently run into this in my job where someone copied one of our products almost exactly, but with poorer quality materials that don't work as well, and I think this could damage the reputation of our product. In this I think there's fair game for me to make the comparison to a Xx0CAMRIPxX with shitty sound and people coughing all the way through compared to seeing a film in the cinema. It is essentially the same, but nowhere near as good as the original, and I think that could put someone off buying the film at a later date.

but isn't that like saying stealing an invention and reproducing it poorly will make people buy the original? My argument is that it may put them off the product altogether.

Quantum computing is just around the corner. -_-

Getting a bit out of hand. Elliot was one guy, with crazy ideas, and mental health issues, he isn't a reflection of the rest of us. Let's just be glad he wasn't smart enough to get into politics and pull a hitler on us.

I hate that I have the compulsion to do this, but *which(title) && *doesn't or does not (signature).