This whole film piracy scare is a sham

It cost me.. £6.70 for a STUDENT ticket to see inception the other day. This is a ******' rip off.

Oh not to mention the 3.50 tiny box of popcorn.

And of course, the fact you have to pay significantly more to see a film in 3d. And i won't even start on the price of blu ray disks.

Fact is, they are all a bunch of money grabbing *****. Downloading films will never go away, these big company's need to realise this, and work out a way to profit from it, rather than spend so much money fighting a losing battle.

I remember when it was 4.80 for a cinema ticket, non student as well. Those were the days.

Its not about theft as such

its that you've not given them money, thus they have less money.

Your an idiot.
Ofcourse piracy makes a lot less people go to the cinema.
I wanted to go see the A Team, instead.. i watched it online on a perfect copy.
We wanted to see inception, instead my uncle had a perfect DVD copy.
This is just me.. in the last week.. they've lost 10 quid right there.

Now, take that to millions of others.. many that are worse than me, ofcourse its gonna have a huge effect

Its like saying piracy of songs on limewire n torrents and such have no effect on the music industry.
Grow a brain.

Less people going to cinema = less profits = prices need to go up. Thats one reason prices are going up.
So is the fact of how expensive films are costing to make nowadays, means they are needing to up prices.
Both of these together = prices going up, and a reasonable reason why.

Your whole post must mean you actually know nothing about the film industry or about business's in general. Maybe you should do a little research and stop coming up with your own "conspiracy" stuff or stop following other peoples.

Theres a lot of bigger reasons for why films are more expensive.
Look at Rush Hour 3 a few years ago as an example. Chris Tucker took $25 million for his part. 10 years ago, if a C list actor like him had demanded that much people would have thought he was crazy. Now its normal for stars to ask for that much. Add on top all the bullsh!t CGI they use nowadays and the price of making films has gone up. The studio doesnt absorb any of this extra cost, it just gets passed down to the public in the form of higher prices.

When cinemas show films about 80% of the ticket price goes to the studio and distributor. The cinema basically loses money, and has to put prices up and get the cash elsewhere. Have you ever wondered why popcorn costs like £5 at the cinema?

This stupid model where the studio squeezes everyone else is what makes things more expensive.

And you talk about you personally pirating. You're obviously a younger person. Anyone over the age of 40, and most families probably wouldnt have any idea where to get their hands on pirated films. Its still mroe of a technological niche than something you can get on a street corner.

Films costing £8 is the reason people pirate, not people pirating being the reaon it costs £8.

Firstly, i said about how films are becoming more expensive to make in general, so that take sout half your post.
Second, read another post, i mention that cinemas themselfs hardly get any of the ticket money thus rely on high food costs otherwise the business would fail.

And yes, i understand other people may not know how.

But "Films costing £8 is the reason people pirate, not people pirating being the reaon it costs £8" is not true.
It goes both ways..

Supply and demand.
Demand goes down, so does supply, so prices rise.
Im not going to say your an idiot so im not going to explain about why less people going to cinema means they need higher prices to compensate cuz thats obvious.

Then yes, the higher prices mean less people, then less people mores higher prices.. it just keeps going and going. Its the reason many people know the cinema is a dying business.

I'm sceptical as to the claims that movie piracy funds terrorism.

Firstly, i said about how films are becoming more expensive to make in general, so that take sout half your post.
Second, read another post, i mention that cinemas themselfs hardly get any of the ticket money thus rely on high food costs otherwise the business would fail.

And yes, i understand other people may not know how.

But "Films costing £8 is the reason people pirate, not people pirating being the reaon it costs £8" is not true.
It goes both ways..

Supply and demand.
Demand goes down, so does supply, so prices rise.
Im not going to say your an idiot so im not going to explain about why less people going to cinema means they need higher prices to compensate cuz thats obvious.

Then yes, the higher prices mean less people, then less people mores higher prices.. it just keeps going and going. Its the reason many people know the cinema is a dying business.

Could you kindly remove your member from the film industry's anus please

Does anyone else agree with the opinion that this whole idea that film piracy is whats damaging the film industry and raising prices, is crap?

The fact is, movie studios are run by greedy morons who throw away money, and the entire industry has systemic financial and organisational flaws which leads to the public paying more and more at the cinema.

This idea that piracy is to blame for dropping attendance is a smokescreen to cover this up.

Firstly, i said about how films are becoming more expensive to make in general, so that take sout half your post.
Second, read another post, i mention that cinemas themselfs hardly get any of the ticket money thus rely on high food costs otherwise the business would fail.

And yes, i understand other people may not know how.

But "Films costing £8 is the reason people pirate, not people pirating being the reaon it costs £8" is not true.
It goes both ways..

Supply and demand.
Demand goes down, so does supply, so prices rise.
Im not going to say your an idiot so im not going to explain about why less people going to cinema means they need higher prices to compensate cuz thats obvious.

Then yes, the higher prices mean less people, then less people mores higher prices.. it just keeps going and going. Its the reason many people know the cinema is a dying business.

Does anyone else agree with the opinion that this whole idea that film piracy is whats damaging the film industry and raising prices, is crap?

The fact is, movie studios are run by greedy morons who throw away money, and the entire industry has systemic financial and organisational flaws which leads to the public paying more and more at the cinema.

This idea that piracy is to blame for dropping attendance is a smokescreen to cover this up.

If I want to watch a film really bad, ill go the cinema. I do download films but only ones im not really desperate to see or if ive watched it once. If I didnt download these films, I wouldnt pay to watch them at a cinema or buy the DVD anyway so yknow...

Its not about theft as such, its that you've not given them money, thus they have less money. How is that not obvious to you?

Its not about theft as such, its that you've not given them money, thus they have less money. How is that not obvious to you?

So by your argument, if someone makes an exact same copy of a physical object (e.g. alarm clock) that they bought from a shop by using spare materials that they already have, and then give this copied version to a friend, this would be considered as theft, right?