What are the effects of pirated movies?

Answer 1

Basically when a movie or other form of entertainment is pirated and sold or otherwise made available to others, the effect is that the people who own that property are deprived of profits they would otherwise have made.

Movies, for one example, cost a great deal of money to make and take a great deal of work by very many people to make them. They go to this trouble in order to make money back, to pay for what the movie cost and to make a profit. Some of these profits go into making other movies.

Thousands of people have jobs making movies. If all movies were pirated, there'd be no money to make more movies, so we'd have less entertainment and all the people who worked to make movies wouldn't have jobs any more.

It's easy to think we're just saving ourselves a few dollars when we buy or watch a pirated movie, and that we're not hurting anyone because movie companies have so much money that they don't notice anyway, but it's not that simple.

Imagine if you design a really good jacket, and people like it so much that you and your friends set up a workshop together so you can make lots of jackets, which you sell. You use the profits from your jackets to buy more equipment and hire more people to make more jackets, and so on.

But if someone buys one of your jackets and copies it, and then sells their jacket much, much cheaper than yours, people won't buy your jackets any more.

You and your friends will lose all the money you put into setting up a place to make the jackets, and the shops that sold your jackets will close. All of you will not only make no more money, you'll owe lots of money to other people for things you've bought to help make and sell your jackets. And all of you will have lost your jobs.

Answer 2

Piracy is illegal which is a big reason why you shouldn't do it. Also the quality is poor i imagine because it is recorded from a camera.