Downloading just gives people an opportunity to casually have a look at or listen to something they might otherwise perhaps not engage with, and those people for which that is not the case are daft, anyway.
So true! I always download and preview albums/movies/TV shows before I buy them anymore, and I'd say 90% of the things that I've bought physical copies of recently I had access to first because I could get them on the Internet (since I don't have cable and only got Netflix recently... and Netflix in Canada is spotty anyway). If the MPAA and RIAA and TV people would take a step back and actually look at how exactly people view online content, they might actually see that, no, they're not really losing any money from people watching things online (and may in fact be earning money, considering the people who would have never seen their product in the first place and manage to become fans through viewing it online). If someone likes something enough to buy it and they have the money to do so, generally they buy it. Yeah, someone might watch your movie/listen to a song online for free and then not buy a copy, but if that's the case--well, they probably either just wouldn't have seen/listened to it without online content and wouldn't have bought a copy anyway.
If something like netflix existed where I live, i would get it. Lovefilmw as always stupid because "hey, i feel like watching this movie in 3 days!" D: The same goes for hulu. Hulu is now an on-demand service in japan, that mostly works on mobile devices. Other countries don't have stuff like that or Spotify, at all. So they want people to buy things, but they do not promote them in a way that would make me, of course I am gonna get my own preview at some point!
So true! I always download and preview albums/movies/TV shows before I buy them anymore, and I'd say 90% of the things that I've bought physical copies of recently I had access to first because I could get them on the Internet (since I don't have cable and only got Netflix recently... and Netflix in Canada is spotty anyway). If the MPAA and RIAA and TV people would take a step back and actually look at how exactly people view online content, they might actually see that, no, they're not really losing any money from people watching things online (and may in fact be earning money, considering the people who would have never seen their product in the first place and manage to become fans through viewing it online). If someone likes something enough to buy it and they have the money to do so, generally they buy it. Yeah, someone might watch your movie/listen to a song online for free and then not buy a copy, but if that's the case--well, they probably either just wouldn't have seen/listened to it without online content and wouldn't have bought a copy anyway.
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