Just so we're clear -- those movies you watch are made by companies that employ people. They cost a lot of money to make (not just a dollar for the DVD processing). They cost nearly as much money to market. Just like it cost money for SlySoft to produce their product. The point that Mike and I are making is that SlySoft should be OK with people not paying for their product, right?
Think of it this way -- did you like The Insider or The Life Aquatic? What about The Prestige? The Village was a pretty great movie. I quite liked The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 25th Hour is one of my favorites, as is The Royal Tenenbaums and High Fidelity. Disney is taking Touchstone Studios from ten or twelve movies a year to one or two, so those movies, all Touchstone productions, have a much slimmer chance of getting made now. Slackening DVD sales have a lot to do with that decision, according to Bob Iger. Does any of that have to do with trading movies over the internet? I think it does.
Don't feel sorry for the studios, but don't think that your actions don't have an affect on the movies you love to watch. Pay for the things you like, and they'll make more of them. Don't pay for those things? They won't make them any more. Simple as that.
"Ah, HD DVD, our old friend - we thought we'd never see you again. But there was no mistaking it, here's the logo tucked away in Chinese manufacturer TCL's booth on a China Blue HD deck next to a similar Blu-ray player."
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Just so we're clear -- those movies you watch are made by companies that employ people. They cost a lot of money to make (not just a dollar for the DVD processing). They cost nearly as much money to market. Just like it cost money for SlySoft to produce their product. The point that Mike and I are making is that SlySoft should be OK with people not paying for their product, right?
Think of it this way -- did you like The Insider or The Life Aquatic? What about The Prestige? The Village was a pretty great movie. I quite liked The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 25th Hour is one of my favorites, as is The Royal Tenenbaums and High Fidelity. Disney is taking Touchstone Studios from ten or twelve movies a year to one or two, so those movies, all Touchstone productions, have a much slimmer chance of getting made now. Slackening DVD sales have a lot to do with that decision, according to Bob Iger. Does any of that have to do with trading movies over the internet? I think it does.
Don't feel sorry for the studios, but don't think that your actions don't have an affect on the movies you love to watch. Pay for the things you like, and they'll make more of them. Don't pay for those things? They won't make them any more. Simple as that.
I missed the part of the slysoft software that included a p2p network like napster.
It seems to me that this allows me to store content on my NAS and stream it to my HD TV on demand or down-rez it for my treo.
Are you saying that it won't let me store it on my NAS or that I can't down-rez, and that it only works with it's p2p client?