Back in the peak of piracy, there was a confluence of three factors:
1. You couldn't get it any legitimate way. You could buy what was in the store, and no, they didn't have that. Not at any price.
2. There wasn't any perception of consequences. They didn't start suing people until quite late in the game.
3. It was a lot easier to find stuff back then because there was much less fuckery to avoid the riaa and mpaa.
1. You couldn't get it any legitimate way. You could buy what was in the store, and no, they didn't have that. Not at any price.
2. There wasn't any perception of consequences. They didn't start suing people until quite late in the game.
3. It was a lot easier to find stuff back then because there was much less fuckery to avoid the riaa and mpaa.
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Absolutely, it's one of those things where perception and reality don't necessarily meet.
Yeah, for most people who downloaded stuff maybe you'd get a nasty email from your ISP. But for some people, they ended up with a life-changing lawsuit or their internet shut off, and for some businesses that were based around this stuff they ended up with the Apocalypse play where an entire industry sued their companies and directors into the history books.
Yeah, for most people who downloaded stuff maybe you'd get a nasty email from your ISP. But for some people, they ended up with a life-changing lawsuit or their internet shut off, and for some businesses that were based around this stuff they ended up with the Apocalypse play where an entire industry sued their companies and directors into the history books.