I'm on a site now that streams wrestling pay-per-views illegally. I'm on because every time I go to a PPV at a bar or if I actually order it for the price without fail I feel jipped. Especially since the wrestling is usually terrible and choreographed. Last weekend there was a TNA and I realized that there were 120 people just on the streaming site I was on, I thought about people with black boxes, and all the other sites out there that were streaming the PPV, then I started thinking about the napster, kazaa, and limewire like sites for music and movies. Then there's all the torrent sites out there.
I was thinking how funny it is that people will group together in mass to get things that they feel they pay too much for in order to get them for free. Maybe if movie companies, music companies and entertainment *caugh* wrestling *caugh* companies stopped simply trying to take our money and really did put out a great product people wouldn't congregate so much to illegally download the products. I think back to the Star Trek movie, if anything was going to get pirated it was that movie, yet even with the pirating it did phenominal at the box office AND it is poised to do just as well in DVD sales. Same thing with The Dark Knight. What are your thoughts, do you feel there wouldn't be as much of a problem pirating things if people when buying these services didn't feel like they were being jipped as much? Or do you think it doesn't really matter if the product is good or not, the internet has made it so people will steal as much stuff for free as possible?