Accused DVD thief faces up to 15 years for online piracy if convicted.
The DOJ claimed that “copies of Spider-Man: No Way Home were downloaded tens of millions of times, with an estimated loss to the copyright owner of tens of millions of dollars.”
Nope, they didn’t lose anything close to that. Perhaps nothing at all.
The kind of people that torrent movies the vast majority of them never had any intention of paying for it, ever. A small minority may use torrents as a free trial of sorts, to see if the movie is worth them parting with their cash on a Blu Ray.
I do this with games. If a game is £60 or £70 and has no demo or trial available I will torrent it to see if I like it without having to worry about the two hour refund limit. If I do I buy it legally and play it. If not it gets deleted and I haven’t wasted £70 on a game I won’t play.
Studios always claim every download is a lost sale, which simply isn’t true.
I don’t own a DVD/bluray player. I don’t pay for streaming, never will, I hate the business model. If a movie is released and I want to support it, I’ll watch it in cinemas (Mickey 17).
If not, I’ll wait.
I’m with you on streaming. I like to OWN things, and nothing beats a 4K Blu Ray for at home viewing.
Absolutely not a movie worth going to prison for.
