You mean that is how it works for people who like getting ripped off or who do not know better. The prices for digital content needs to come down or else they will not be able to compete with “piracy.”

If you want to keep the movie, just buy the damn thing. Why would anybody give you a movie for $3.99?

Most movies are simply not worth $3.99. The reason why the studios should consider selling the movie for $3.99 is because the same movie can be downloaded for no cost. It is better for the cartels to sell a movie for $3.99 than for them to make nothing at all. It’s called competition, and the competition is offering a much better price. Businesses cut off their employees daily to overseas slave simply because using slaves gives them cheaper rates. The businesses that engage in this practice call it “free market.” They call it stealing when the same principle is applied to movies and audio recordings. The cartels want it both ways. I call filesharing the customers’ version of outsourcing. It may even become perfectly legal if the files are hosted in Antigua. Since the cartels have been so eager to sell U.S. sovereignty down the toilet, they should have to suffer the same blowback that the average American citizen has to suffer.

The prices are perfectly reasonable, by the way. Been to Blockbuster lately?

Yes I have, and their prices are also way too high. Blockbuster at least has the excuse that once a tangible product (DVD) leaves the store, they are no longer in possession of it. With digital products, the product never has to leave the possession of the seller, and the buyer still gets to use the product. With that said, I have to admit, that there is not much cartel product out there that I find pleasing enough to watch for free, so I sure won’t waste my time, bandwidth, or even money to obtain it.

No physical disc manufacturing
No box for physical disc because no physical disc
No physical disc transport on trucks
No warehouse costs because no physical discs (no warehouse employee salaries)
No store costs because no physical discs
No store profits because no physical discs and no physical store

Bittorent usues the upload bandwidth of its users so the movie companies don’t need big bandwidth and big servers to serve a million users’ movies. They only need to tell users where to find each other, so no big costs there.

There’s no scarcity with Bittorent, the more people that want a file, the faster and more available it becomes.

Sorry, there’s no excuse for a movie costing a lot of money. They’re just being greedy and if you haven’t noticed it’s at your expense if you play it their way. A fool and their money are soon parted. DON’T BE A FOOL!

If you want to keep the movie, just buy the damn thing. Why would anybody give you a movie for $3.99?

The prices are perfectly reasonable, by the way. Been to Blockbuster lately?

Even more C.R.A.P., not from Apple though.

I agree, I’d like to add that it’d be so cheap why bother renting? just pay $1-$4 to download and keep the movie without DRM. That’s $8 more than most movies are worth (that’s not a typo, some movies really are that bad).

With Bittorent they don’t pay for huge bandwidth costs associated with movie downloads.

They won’t do this because they can’t sell the same movie over and over again.

There is NO REASON in this 21st century to apply limits of 24 hours typical of PHYSICAL products to FILES that are COPIES made without human involvement, FILES that have ZERO marginal cost to produce and are NOT SCARCITY at all!

If THEY figured out how to get MORE PROFIT while having a ZERO marginal cost (they pay for electricity but so do us), it is perfectly reasonable for their CUSTOMERS to get a share of the decrease of the cost.

I could understand if it were discs available for rentals, but why apply that to ephemeral files?

DRM really sucks, but this is rental, get over it.