Ink is a really good movie - obviously subjective, but its a must see.<p>That point aside, there's something I just don't understand about some pirates. Why do they insist on justifying stealing? I understand that, in this case, its the owners of the art saying it worked out for them. Generally though, just steal and shut up. Someone else (possibly an evil conglomerate) owns the work and they have every right to discard your economic theories. Sure, you can stick it to them, but, again, why justify it?<p>Is it because people don't think art should be owned?
Stealing is wrong in any form, but I have no sympathy for the losses major studios and record labels have suffered due to online piracy. Illegal downloading hasn't robbed the industry from profit, Avatar/Inception/The Dark Knight box office sales have disproven that. What has ended, is the business model of putting garbage inside a shiny mystery box that people have to pay for the opportunity to peek inside. Gone are the days of cd's that have one good song and fifteen filler tracks, movies that show their only worthwhile parts during the trailer leaving the story begging for a plot. Forget you Hollywood, I hope your industry suffers needlessly for years. The 'mystery box' business model only works when people can't preview the garbage inside
This is in line with my pet theory on why Disney even bothered with a sequel to the original Tron.<p>They claim Tron became a 'cult classic' and hence a sequel was a good idea. It's a 1982 movie, how did it suddenly explode into popularity in the later 90s/early 2000s? The widespread file-sharing of the movie, of course.<p>I don't have a citation to back me up here (hence my 'pet theory'), but here's your data point of one - I downloaded Tron from a 'shady' source a few years back, and became part of the 'cult following' it has.
I'm surprised that this site, which is more sophisticated than most out there, still has a relatively high proportion of people who think copyright violation is "stealing".
I think "The Man from Earth" was also partially distributed through torrents. At least that's what the wikipedia claims - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth</a>