Well, Faruk showed me this link and I am infuriated to say the least.
It is not the fact that I don’t think downloading warez is as bad as everyone suggests, because I dont 100% agree with it.
If I downloaded a Friends DVD (god save me if I did), I would be ‘hurting’ people like Jennifer Aniston. A woman who earned $1,000,000 per week for the latter half of Friends. Lets do some rough math (it gets boring but bare it out); most American’s earn a minimum wage of between $4 and $7.25 an hour according to a government site, we’ll say $6 as an average. An average day of $54 (6 * 9).. thus meaning an average week of $270… $1080 being a month’s wage… yearly of $54,000. A lifetime equals to around $1,728,000.
Ms. Aniston has to work less than 2 weeks to get a lifetime’s hard graft. This is disgusting and outrageous, the pinnacle of human greed. So by not paying for a DVD, I am deprivng her of a few dollars… somehow it doesn’t seem so bad when I put it like that. The lower level people on the set, are most likely paid in wages and see no royalties. People like Jeniffer Aniston wouldn’t notice if $2,000 was missing from their pocket…. whereas a normal working person would worry about $20 missing. They could easily cut the prices of DVDs and pay these actors less… I buy DVDs but I wait months and months till they are down to $13 before I buy. If they were at this price as soon as they came out, it’d be a different matter completely.
They US government have said they will make it so that if someone is caught recording the movie… they’ll get 3 years. This is a serious amount of time really considering people get less time for murder (to which they liken the offense) sometimes. Its a sick, sick world and this is justice?
The government has to stop digging.
