I recently read a comment about collectors that I found interesting enough to share here.
On reddit.com, hatetosayit commented:
Awesome, you’ve just demonstrated one of my theories as to why people aren’t buying movies anymore. The industry likes to blame piracy, but I think they’ve missed something.
Nobody buys a movie simply because he wants to watch it. You don’t even buy a movie because you will want to watch it again in a couple years. People who buy lots of movies aren’t currently watching all of those movies. So why do people buy movies?
It’s because they’re collectors. (more…)