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Originally posted by fxho:
That's a lame excuse ("And before you cry foul, they're things I wouldn't have bought anyway"). It sounds like "it is easier for ask for forgiveness than for permission". If you don't get it legally, you are not entitled to watch it to begin with. Now that you already watched it, you don't care about it anymore.Example: here in Vancouver, there is a place where you can rent DVDs for $2.00 a piece (or rent 2 get the third "free"). Thought I could rent them, have I done so? No, I haven't, because once I see it, it is unlikely I will buy them. I have several DVDs which I have only seen *once*, and left them in a corner to gather dust. That's human nature, try to fight against it is almost useless...
However, there is a more important question here: what you are going to do about it? I mean what you are going to do NOW about it?
I realize it's a lame excuse. One of these days I'm going to go through my anime collection, and stuff I have fullylegalbackupcopies of that I never watched, will never watch even once because I don't like it (let alone buying the stuff), will just get trashed. And stuff like Fushigi Yuugi, which I don't really like and only watched once fansubbed (and that was actually a *legit* fansub as it *wasn't* out at the time) and wouldn't want to pay for will get trashed as well. I don't intend to have *any*thing that isn't kosher now that I can afford it.
Oh, and as for Spirited Away--saw it at my anime club, saw it last week in a theatre with my dad and brother, and probably will see it in a theater again with my mother.
When I make a decision whether or not to buy something it is based solely on the product. Whether I have already seen it is more or less irrelevant compared to "was it good enough to be worth my money?" and "what is the shape of the industry that produced this product?".
Oh, and I do think you're taking this a bit far with the whole "I don't rent DVDs because then I won't buy them" deal. If something is available for rent, that is perfectly legitimate. Rent-and-copy isn't, but simply renting something, watching it once, and then never buying it is perfectly acceptable.