1) Actors make millions of dollars, teachers barely scrape a living 2) Most movie companies have majority shareholders who sit in congress 3) Laws are meant to protect people, not the lawmakers themselves
It may be against the letter of the law, but when the only thing the lawmakers are interested in doing is protecting their pocketbooks and using every governmental means at their disposal- I'm sorry, I'm not in the top 1%, I don't get to cheat and lie and be above the law. If I want to watch a movie, I'm going to pirate it. If I find a movie I really like? I buy it. I've got a whole unopened chronicles of narnia sitting on my shelves <3 But I'm not going to drop $30 on a movie to find out what its like, I'm going to watch it first. Who can afford to watch all those movies? (The only reason I watch so many is I get to sit at home sewing all day long, and tv is basically crap)
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Date: 2012-01-29 08:12 pm (UTC)1) Actors make millions of dollars, teachers barely scrape a living
2) Most movie companies have majority shareholders who sit in congress
3) Laws are meant to protect people, not the lawmakers themselves
It may be against the letter of the law, but when the only thing the lawmakers are interested in doing is protecting their pocketbooks and using every governmental means at their disposal- I'm sorry, I'm not in the top 1%, I don't get to cheat and lie and be above the law. If I want to watch a movie, I'm going to pirate it. If I find a movie I really like? I buy it. I've got a whole unopened chronicles of narnia sitting on my shelves <3 But I'm not going to drop $30 on a movie to find out what its like, I'm going to watch it first. Who can afford to watch all those movies? (The only reason I watch so many is I get to sit at home sewing all day long, and tv is basically crap)