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What if Wal-Mart busted a shoplifter and charged him with both the cost of the item and the lost opportunity of him buying the item?

If I'm never going to buy a movie, then there is no loss. Whether I watch it on a friend's TV or download it, there is no lost value and no lost opportunity.

Furthermore, 0% of 100% is nothing. Let me pay $1.20 to download/rent a new movie or give me a simple way to pay after viewing a movie I watched at a friend's or downloaded.

If it's a great movie, I want to support the filmmakers. There's many movies I'd never had paid to watch but after seeing wanted greatly to show monetary support but can't.





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