Why don't people vote with their time? Don't watch something, for example.
I'm not quite sure you understand the idea of voting. It's about making your preference known, and it doesn't quite work when your action has no impact on anyone else.
100% Correct. The only way a boycott works is by people taking a stand, and then letting everyone know about it. Same goes for canceling subscriptions, vegetarians boycotting MC-donalds, people staying home and not voting in elections, or hunger striking in a prison.
So the alternative to pay for an movie, TV show or videogame is to organize a movement to let people know about the issue. This happens. Remember people voting down Simcity on Amazon? Remember people producing jailbreaks? Remember people picketing outside studios or shops? All those are the alternatives to buying and supporting a broken businesses model. Pressing or not pressing a download button in silence has in contrast zero impact.
I disagree. If you don't like the policies of a studio, boycott their content. This is not a new concept by any means[1][2]. If a content provider lacks an audience, it's going to hurt them financially. It doesn't matter if its paid media like a movie or ad based media like a TV show.
Well, perhaps I don't. The reasoning was similar to that of money. People have indicated that if you stop paying for things (DRM-laded goods and services, for example) the companies will notice the lack of sales and change their behaviour accordingly. Now, for not watching, perhaps if they noticed that torrents that previously had tens of thousands of people downloading only had a handful—or better yet, the different warez groups/whatever stopped their releases—the companies would notice that people are making a stand by not even watching. Popularity of TV show x would go down and what happens when TV shows aren't popular? They're killed. Also, supposedly people pirate things, come to like them, and then buy them so limiting watching also leads to making your preference known.
I think that not watching could be even more powerful than not voting with your wallet. It shows greater self-control, dedication, etc. It says "Screw you guys, we won't even watch it!" Though, as mentioned in my previous post, I doubt many people would do that as they simply want something for free nor are they so invested in the whole anti-DRM thing.
Even if I don't understand voting, I would still love to hear why the hell people are so up in arms about not being able to watch a TV show especially so when their complaint is that it's released a week later. It would be fantastic to see the pirates look at themselves and what they're doing wrong. A last thing I would like too is an answer to a question: If I create something and will only sell it for $1000 and it is not a human right/basic necessity, if I ask or tell you to not acquire it and use it without paying, would you follow what I've said or ignore it? -- you here isn't meaning you, icebraining.
I'm not quite sure you understand the idea of voting. It's about making your preference known, and it doesn't quite work when your action has no impact on anyone else.