>these points make him appear as an avaricious 10 year old who deserves anything he wants.
Pretty much exactly what I was thinking. I give him credit for his honesty, but holy cow man.
Starting off with the car rental analogy was strange. If he wanted to prove his point, he should have said "every time I need a rental car I steal one".
But after starting off with "I called the rental company to voice my displeasure" (paraphrased), he then goes on to describe completely different behavior for online property where he just steals it instead of calling and complaining.
To me this comes off as the ranting of a lunatic who can't see how his own argument fails the sniff test right off the bat.
There is simply no reason to steal this stuff anymore. All the music you want is $10 a month. All the movies are $8 a month. Both are available on just about any device you own. It's not the year 2000 anymore.
All that said, I have no love for how these industries are lobbing to impose more draconian laws to combat a problem that is already illegal. Their IP is protected without new laws. They should work with the tools they have.
> Starting off with the car rental analogy was strange.
The car rental content was speaking to a different issue than his media consumption content. This was his reasoning for speaking publicly about it not his reason for downloading instead of buying. He had a bad experience with a car rental company and rather than just silently taking his business elsewhere he called the company and complained. That action made him realize that instead of just silently downloading content for free he should speak up to content creators as well.
> All the music you want is $10 a month. All the movies are $8 a month.
This isn't exactly true. Some movies are available for $8 a month, with restrictions, staggered releases, device restrictions (hulu), etc. Spotify, Pandora and the like let you have access to music on demand but it's still not available everywhere and they still have limited catalogs. Not nearly as bad as the movie/tv catalogs but still limited.
I don't disagree that for many people these services provide plenty of content worth watching/hearing. I stream in excess of 200 hours of pandora per month. We use Netflix for kids movies/shows quite a bit and my wife gets the few shows she's interested in from Hulu including some older shows. For my in laws they love the Roku I bought them and their ability to get older content. They maintain a DirecTV package because they can't get most of the newer content they are interested in at all. I personally find Hulu and Netflix to be extremely lacking. I'd be more than happy to pay more for a better selection of content but it's simply not available. The amount of worthwhile content being available is entirely dependent on your personal preferences.
I think technical people largely over state the value and amount of content that is available via these services and really that's all I wanted to draw attention to.
Pretty much exactly what I was thinking. I give him credit for his honesty, but holy cow man.
Starting off with the car rental analogy was strange. If he wanted to prove his point, he should have said "every time I need a rental car I steal one".
But after starting off with "I called the rental company to voice my displeasure" (paraphrased), he then goes on to describe completely different behavior for online property where he just steals it instead of calling and complaining.
To me this comes off as the ranting of a lunatic who can't see how his own argument fails the sniff test right off the bat.
There is simply no reason to steal this stuff anymore. All the music you want is $10 a month. All the movies are $8 a month. Both are available on just about any device you own. It's not the year 2000 anymore.
All that said, I have no love for how these industries are lobbing to impose more draconian laws to combat a problem that is already illegal. Their IP is protected without new laws. They should work with the tools they have.