Piracy promotes purchasing, especially amongst video editors

[ZephyrStar]

Sortof OT, but I remember when I would go to this big lan party (2000 or so people) every year, there were always a few people that would show up with servers for the purpose of sharing stuff. This one guy in particular, had this huge equipment case, he had modded a rackmount into it, and there were something like 6 computers in there. It also had it's own switch and router. This guy wouldn't play games, he would just pirate EVERYTHING he could get his hands on, and share all of it. If you went and looked at his machines, he had something like 18 shared drives, and they were all 250gb or so (HUEG for the day) and they were all full. Software, anime, movies, porn, books, music, if you can pirate it, this guy probably had it.

I asked him why so much stuff, and he said "because I can." He never even used the stuff, he had movies he didn't even like, software he'd never use, music he hated, and all of his files were HUGELY disorganized. Each drive was just a random collection of folders. Sometimes you'd find music, sometimes you'd find games, whatever. He had a huge following, so huge in fact that all the people leeching off him shut down one of the lan hall routers 3 times when we were there. We were on his row too, and our PINGS SUCKED. They eventually told him to shut off all his stuff except for one machine, much to the disappointment of all the leechers.

"Because I can." This guy just wanted to have a bigger e-peen than everybody else. But the sad thing is, people started copying him, and you'd see more and more people doing this in the following years. I kinda look at pirating as a "try before you buy" thing, not that any of us are less guilty of it than this guy, but it's kinda like pirate ethics.

[Garylisk]

I prefer a physical collection.

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[Enigma]

I prefer a physical collection.

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[CodeZTM]

I prefer a physical collection.

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Oh, and I must say that I wish more companies would be like Funimation and upload their series on Youtube. =) Seeing the Soul Eater in English pretty much guaranteed I'd go out and buy it when it's available.

[Enigma]

I prefer a physical collection.

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Oh, and I must say that I wish more companies would be like Funimation and upload their series on <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/v ... youtube</a>. =) Seeing the Soul Eater in English pretty much guaranteed I'd go out and buy it when it's available.

THIS

[ZephyrStar]

Yeah exactly. I have to give props to Funi for that.

[Enigma]

Yeah exactly. I have to give props to Funi for that.

After so much wrong,RIGHT

[guardiansoulblade]

Piracy doesn't necessarily promote purchasing among editors, the only reason some people buy is because we feel obligated to support what we like. There are plenty of editors who just download illegal anime, be it subbed or dubbed and edit with that.

[Knowname]

Those editors are easy to find... on youtube

No but I don't think I've bought a single CD to edit with their all either mp3s or stuff I already owned. I have, however, bought cd's because somebody else edited to that song and I just really liked it

[xPiikanyaa]

There are plenty of editors who just download illegal anime, be it subbed or dubbed and edit with that.

Usually subbed. Dubbed episodes are damn hard to find on the internet.