A post in honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Are improper movie downloads Hollywood’s own fault? Kinda looks like it. When you give people easy, reasonably priced ways to download movies, they prefer them over “pirated” downloads.
And as a sidenote, Netflix has found that pirate download stats are a great way to decide what movies and shows they should bid on for their streaming service. Apparently, if people want pirate downloads, they also want legal downloads of it.
(BTW, given that today is TLAPD, if you talk like a pirate at Long John Silver’s today, they will give you a free piece of fried fish if you ask for it.)