When You’re Unable to Rent, You Must Torrent
I noticed today that I had fallen behind on my Amazon purchases since 21 came out this week but it was still sitting in my cart. After I bought it, my dad thought that it would be a good movie to watch tonight, so I went to Blockbuster to go rent it. The blockbuster close to our house has an entire section of the wall dedicated to 21 but none in stock, and then another Blockbuster I tried didn’t have any either. Realizing that this was the 21st century we were living in, I figured I’d try my first digital rent and see how that process went. It would have been an interesting experiment save for the fact that apparently it can’t be rented yet from iTunes or any similar store, only purchased.
So, I’d purchased the DVD, it’ll be on it’s way to me next week, but we wanted to watch the movie tonight. So, what did I do? I resorted to the faithful torrent and got a copy in about an hour. Seriously, I exhausted just about every avenue I could think of to *pay people money* to rent it and watch it tonight, but the physical copies were in short supply and apparently the digital version doesn’t even exist for rent. Had I not just purchased it on Amazon I could have paid about $10 more and bought a copy of it in person, but I wan’t going to pay that much money when all I wanted was a legal way to rent it. Come on, movie studios, is that really too much to ask?