The loophole people aren't the problem (live in a different country, etc.). It's those who simply don't care enough about legality or the industry they are interested in to buy their comics.
Comic companies do fine financially. But when you see a marginally successful title cancelled, or if you try to break into the industry on any level and find it impossible, it's those sorts of fringe consequences that downloading creates.
I'd love to be able to show DL'ers just what they do, by stealing stuff of their that is valuble to them or took a lot of time. It never really seems to have moral consequences for some until they are immediately affected by it.
Oh and Marvel at the end of the nieties. Bankrupt, forcing them to change their business model. Comics are not what makes Marvels money. Character copyright and merchandising is.
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Like I said, fringe consequences. There's companies in any industry that regularly bite it or are bought out by larger companies. And there's still a fair number of indy labels that thrive. And those weren't necessarily caused by downloading, since there's other factors too.
But yeah, it's an example of the harm that can be caused, because even if indy comics aren't downloaded as much, there's a trickle-down affect to the smaller companies from the large ones.
Yeah that work's except that it is very expensive.
Of the comics I read I actually buy all three Spider-man titles, Punisher War Journal and Thor, and this gets quite expensive (or well, not that expensive, between 6 US dollars per comic, but it stops me from buying everything I wanna read. And if I want comics older then one month (differs form comic to comic) I have to use E-bay, where certain comics might be as much as 20$ a piece when counting shipping.) Thus I only buy the 5 titles mentioned.
I have downloaded version of almost every comic I own because I can't get to the comic shop until the weekends and I'm too impatient to wait that long. It's better that way I think, my actual comics stay in their mylar and I can re-read the downloaded versions when ever I want with out damaging the real version.
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Yeah, I download comics. Every single comic I own, I've downloaded as well.
If I hear something on the forums about "OMG in BS comics 1299, so and so did XXXX," I'll likely go verify.
I support the industry. I just make light of it because I think it's hilarious how much you parallel your previous socks, yet still haven't been banned.
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