This whole film piracy scare is a sham

But movies cost a lot to make. They make this money back afterwards in cinema ticket sales and dvd sales... if they don't cover the costs of making the film then they have made a loss. It's not hard to understand this concept.

People should stop trying to justify stealing property just because they think the prices are too high.

P.s. I'm not sure why people think the cinema is hugely expensive. You could use StudentBeans (Buy one get one free if you print off voucher from Monday to Thursday) or use Orange Wednesday's. I do wish it was the same price as it use to be years ago, but as someone rightly pointed out, the supply and demand is very volatile and cinema's are dying. I don't mind though, as I usually wait until the film is out on DVD and I'll try and pick up a cheap copy

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 morally wrong because the store has lost out on money which would've been gained from the friend buying the same clock, right?

Yeah I don't think piracy is to blame for a drop in cinema attendance. Who wants to watch a shaky camcorder copy with bad sound on a tiny screen? Not me.

the idea that piracy damages the economy is stupid. If people don't spend their money on films they will spend it on something else and thus there is no drop in aggregate demand in the economy. economic activity remains the same

Who wants to watch a shaky camcorder copy with bad sound on a tiny screen? Not me.

I'm not sure about my point here, but surely would it cause some effect in terms of inflation:

A sort of artificial increase in aggregate demand would occur as people are appearing to be consuming not only the movies, but other things as well, making the Aggregate demand seem higher than it actually is, and causing unnecessary and disproportionate inflation in the economy, hurting consumers by decreasing their real income to a greater effect.

aggregate demand would remain the same. the demand for media would drop but this would be made up for with people spending the money they would spend on media on other industries e.g food. this means gdp remains the same overall and thus the economy is unharmed

Lol yeah, you're right, stupid thinking. Though, wouldn't this cause structural unemployment? As those in the film industry are out of a job and don't have the skills to work in the other industries? That would certainly be bad for the economy...

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.

piracy supports child abuse.

Everyone knows this, it are fact.

I'm sure that's really hitting your budget hard...
I bet you've spent more on luxury foods or frivolous items of clothing...
No-one made you go to see the film. There's no need to be so angry towards the film industry.