{"id":1807,"date":"2011-07-21T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2011-07-21T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:34:32","slug":"movie-industry-buries-report-proving-pirates-are-great-consumers-geek-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/07\/21\/movie-industry-buries-report-proving-pirates-are-great-consumers-geek-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie industry buries report proving pirates are great consumers | Geek.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/articles\/geek-cetera\/movie-industry-bins-report-proving-pirates-are-great-consumers-20110720\/\">Movie industry buries report proving pirates are great consumers | Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion is worth reading; at least the first few posts. While it is certainly true that there are crooks and shysters in the US too, I will grant that there are probably fewer companies that make their living off counterfeit goods than in places like China.<\/p>\n<p>The important takeaway is that the individual who steals movies and shows for personal consumption should not be the main target &#8211; most of them DO in fact buy lots of DVDs. Many of them are students who will absolutely buy lots of stuff once they graduate and start to make money.<\/p>\n<p>Go after the corporations.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1807'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1807);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1807);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1807);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Movie industry buries report proving pirates are great consumers | Geek.com. The discussion is worth reading; at least the first few posts. While it is certainly true that there are crooks and shysters in the US too, I will grant &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/07\/21\/movie-industry-buries-report-proving-pirates-are-great-consumers-geek-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[44,103,53],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-american-society","tag-society","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-t9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3056,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/10\/27\/the-diffusion-of-innovations-con-and-apple\/","url_meta":{"origin":1807,"position":0},"title":"The Diffusion of Innovations Con (and Apple)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"October 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I learned about Everett Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations theory when I fist started studying Education formally in 2003. 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