Yarr! I be a pirate...

[LabRat]

Originally Posted by glatt

When I was in college, years ago, I would make cassette tapes of albums and CDs that others owned. These were albums I never would have paid for in the first place, because I didn't know the music that well. If it ended up being an album I liked alot, I would buy more CDs from that artist. If it was a band I ended up not liking so much, I wouldn't....People like Articrono are going to be the death of the entertainment industry as we know it.

I did this too, making tapes of tapes or CD's, and usually ended up buying more of the real thing from groups I liked. I easily had less than 5% of my collection being the copied type. Usually, I made 'mix' tapes because I didn't have a CD player in my car !

I don't think it's such a bad thing actually, because I got exposed to a lot more types of music then I EVER would have if I only had the option of buying.

As for the movie industry, for me, seeing a movie in the theater is as much about getting out for a night and having way too expensive popcorn and jumbo boxes of candy as it is about the movie itself. Personally, what has kept me out of the theater is the movie rental places. If a movie doesn't sound all that great, but I still want to see it, i just wait for it to come out on video. Which these days is amazingly fast. Unless it's an action movie, where the big screen and sound effects make the theater a better place to get the whole experience than my La-Z-Boy, I would rather watch a movie at home.

No annoying public there, and there's no stupid armrests to get in the way of making out...