First, see this comic.

This is so true. It’s not that people won’t pay for things, it’s that they don’t have any other option.

For example, say that we pirate a great show. Keep in mind that we wouldn’t have the need to pirate a crappy show because the show is so crappy we don’t want to watch it. So, say we pirate it. After the last episode of the season, we buy the box because – you guessed it – it is a great show. So we have the box. We watch the show again on dvd or bluray. After this we still might watch it on TV whenever we see it’s on or record it on our digibox. In what phase you as a retailer have lost some money? P.S. I also buy boxes in smaller packages later when they publish them so the x seasons won’t take up so much room.

I’ve watched the Big Bang Theory and Gilmore Girls from TV and on DVD for two or three times already, granted I haven’t pirated them but as I await for the fourth season of How I Met Your Mother to be available on DVD (there is already 7 seasons made and the fourth has been published and then sold out so it is not available for me), it really gives me the incentive to pirate it, although I’m not going to. It almost makes me feel stupid, that I’m waiting for something slow, costly and legal for weeks at a time just to be a good citizen according to some people. Keep in mind I will in any case, buy all 7 seasons.

There you go, idiots that don’t know anything about pirates and their friends.