Re:You're wrong. (Score 1)

sorry to rip, but have you been to a grocery store lately? there are companies that blatantly rip off Coke and Pepsi. How many people enjoy 29 cent faygo cola instead of paying a dollar for the genuine coke or pepsi? Anyone been to kmart and seen Dr. Skipper and the likes? way way cheaper than the real Dr. Pepper and tastes just about the same. This is the exact same as the whole P2P situation. Buy a DVD, rip, compress, and produce a very similar product but by no means equivalent to the original and offer at a lower price. It's like Dr. Pepper vs Dr. Skipper. As far as I know i can still go to the store and buy dr. skipper.... Movies cost more every year, and the people who really reap the benefits aren't the hard working people. Its the people who sit behind the desks, and the crybaby actors we are forced to love. Cut their salaries to something actually reasonable (i know i'm starting to sound like a socialist or a communist) in the $200G range, and then movie prices, and production costs get DRASTICALLY REDUCED! here's an example, the horrid horrid movie Intolerable Cruelty. If they paid the average $55 mil in production costs they are retarded. I could have made the same movie for about a million. I'll give them advertising costs just to be nice. but honestly, alot of these millions spent on movies aren't needed. Its your own fault the director suckered you into an extra $200gs (a whole years salary that would make me very happy) so that he could have the perfect lighting, or could digitally remove the freckles on some actors face, just so the movie looks flawless. So long story short, the **AAs should do as California Governer has said in a movie role, and "Stop Whining!" Another side point no one ever mentioned, is that the studio heads are realizing their usefulness in the world is declining because of the net, so they are merely suing a bunch of poor people to get them in their pockets as salary security. Just in case the ship goes down, whoever gets the company name at the end of the day still gets $500 a month from hundreds of lower middle class families. It's sad when there are so many laws and regulations, that everyone is always breaking the law, and no one can truly live legally anymore, and if they could, it wouldn't be much of a life at all. hell, the terrorists may be right (yea yea, flame away, like i care. its meant to inspire thought from a different perspective. and i am an american by the way, and i did lose someone in the towers, but sometimes you cant let your emotions guide you, and you have to think logically and get over yourself and your losses, theres a bigger picture out there)