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But would you if you could...?
Say you are a hard-working painter with a modest shop in which you sell your creative pieces to the public, living off the little money your art can supply. One day a man comes to snap photographs of your paintings, then quietly leaves. Later, you realize that printed copies of your paintings are showing up everywhere; on the internet, sold in glass frames on street corners and handed out like flyers for fractions of its price, while you stand idly with empty pockets, grieving the fact that people prefer a replicated digital copy of the meticulously crafted masterpiece over the uniqueness of the original, pixels on a screen over pastel on canvas.
Just like painters, movie creators go through a long and painstaking process to give you the polished product you see on the big screen. And just like the man in your store, there are people who specialize in stealing the creative content in movies, and they affect you, me, and your beloved actors and movie creators.