Reader mail: Perhaps this Tea Party has more kooks than usual
Loaded Down  Cheap thrills: Your cover story about lawyers who
sue people who illegally download movies notes that "the film
industry loses $6.1 billion annually to digital piracy"
("Invasion of Piracy," Keegan Hamilton, August 11). That's
bullshit. What they do not take into account at any of these
studies is the slow economy, which means people are spending
less on entertainment. I've become very picky about the movies I
watch in the theater.   Can't wait: It's not that people aren't
willing to pay for content; it's that they want it now. While I
can understand that going to a movie theater isn't exactly a
cheap or pleasant experience anymore, why not just wait for it
to come out on DVD and watch it legally? We used to have to wait
years before a movie appeared on television, and now people
can't even wait a few months? People have no patience anymore.
Quality counts: Companies are never going to be able to compete
when their product is inferi