BlockBusters VS. DVD Pirates
This is just my personal experieance. You can agree or disagree....doesn't matter. I'm just looking for for you opinion.
I've been a member of BlockBuster for 5 years. In those 5 years I've rented over 600 videos.
I rent on average 2 or 3 a week or more. I work 2nd shift and my wife works 1st shift so I often rented movies on my way home from work and watched them at night and left them for my wife to watch on her own but she didn't watch them because she didn't have time in the 2 days that I had to have them back or get a late fee....I had LOT"S OF LATE FEES!!!!
So I bought a DVD burner......sue me...
With DVD X COPY and NERO I could rent a movie for $4.23 watch it and burn it and my wife could watch it agian any time she wanted. Before I knew it I had a library of over 50 dvd's.
I thought this was great!!!
BlockBuster has come out with a new program in my area, I don't know if everyone has this deal yet or not.....here it is....
For $29.00 a month I can have unlimited rentals....NO LATE FEES!!.. :D I can have 2 movies at a time for as long as I want....take them back get 2 more..ANYTIME!!!
I Jumped at this deal because I was spending more then this a moth anyway.
Well, now I don't pirate dvd's anymore....what's the point? If I see a movie and take it back and my wife wants to see it later she can go get it and it doesn't cost anything.
Was this BlockBusters way of trying to cut back on dvd pirates?
Am I just the exception?
I know that there are many reasons for dvd copy's...."rent a movie, copy it, sell it$$$"....etc.
Is this deal available anywhere else, or just here?
What's your opinion?
so will this deter piracy?
So will these deals deter dvd piracy?
In my case it has.....why would I spend $1.00 for a dvd and an hour of my time to have a copy of a movie that I can simply go back to Blockbuster and get again and not have to pay $4.23
I think this was a very shrewd move on the part of the movie industry in cooperation with Blockbuster... to discourage dvd piracy???....
I also think that Blockbuster has to be loosing some money on late fee's and re-rentals so they must be being compinsated in some way. I know that they are loosing money from me!
I'm watching more movies and paying less each month than I used to.