Sunday night, tired a bit, want to relax. I just figured out that Star Wars: Clone Wars was finally running. Guess I must have been living in a cave for the past weeks.
The show runs on CTV in Canada but I missed the first 6 episodes. No problem! Opens iTunes, find Clone Wars, Add to cart, login... "Your account can only buy from the canadian store"... Ok, get into canadian store, no Clone Wars available...
Get on CTV.ca website, only the last 2 episodes are available...
What???? I want to spend money on it and they won't take it. Money I shouldn't be spending to watch that show but hey! I'm tired and want to spend $2!!!!!!
This is a bit surreal. On one side there's a major black "free" market (torrent and friends) of downloadable movies, music and such and on the other side they don't want to take my money when I want to purchase it. Something's just plain silly in all this. So I guess the answer for me is to wait, buy the DVD on Amazon US website (because the same DVD in the Canadian store can be twice the price, and that even when the canadian dollar was worth the same as an US dollar... and the joke is that when I buy from Amazon US, the item is actually shipped from Toronto when available there...) or maybe just forget about it. After all, they don't want my money...
Never thought it would be so hard to spend some money on a sunday night...
Sunday, November 9, 2008
I hate these exclusive distribution rights
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Unfortunatly such situations aren't rare. The best way to sum it up is, if the real thing is inferior to the pirated version then why would you buy it?
It is things like this which lead to piracy IMO. How many people would pirate games like spore just so they can play them without having to contact EA every time they want to install it?
And companies wonder why there is so much piracy? :\
yeah, my thoughts exactly. It just gets silly. Most people don't mind spending their money on non-essential stuff (I'm pretty sure the entertainment industry is doing pretty well even in dark economic times) but when you do everything to crash their fun, no wonder they'll take the other road.
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