Downloading Comics?

[Gogo Bananas]

Is downloading comics as bad as downloading movies/music?
As harmful to the industry?
Not that I or anyone else here ever has or advocates such a thing.

 

[Ben Urich]

I think it's disrespectful.

 

[Speedball]

I don't download comics (I like the paper form).
But I don't see why Marvel or DC doesn't come up with an Itunes like service that lets you download a comic from it's huge library.

 

[Gogo Bananas]

Probably the biggest part of comics is the actual ownership...watching your collection grow and flipping back through your long boxes, so I don't think e-comics will or ever should replace the real thing.
However, there's a lot of titles that suffer and die out because they've never caught on.
Dave Chapelle realized his show wasn't catching on because it hadn't found it's audience so he made early episodes available for free download himself. Look what happened there.
If Squadron Supreme or Blue Beetle is on the verge of cancellation, why shouldn't Marvel or DC make issues available on their websites for free? After all, the issues are already a loss and if you can grab new readers you might be able to push the series a little further.
The anti-arguement is that people may stop buying new issues and wait for the download. But does that prevent people from buying new release to wait for the trade paperback? I know I myself have trades of a lot of storylines I already owned, just for the sake of preserving the condition of often read issues. In the case of Watchmen I have the originals, a trade to lend out, and the hardcover.
The comics industry has it's ups and downs, and in the downs I think the big guns should pull whatever they can to keep the machine running.

 

[Nightwing]

sometimes it can be ok cos lets face it people cant get every comic they want to read from a shop can they.i mean look at #1's and stuff like that.

 

[JackBauer]

I would've said that it's okay only when you can't find what you want in comic shops, but these days, I'd prefer DL'ing Spidey comics rather than paying for them.

is it disrespectful? yeah, I guess, but no more so than the s#!t they've been doing to him.

 

[Archangel]

I don't see it as being any more disrespectful than me going to my library and checking out some trades or graphic novels.

Either way, i'm still gonna buy it if I like it.

 

[Fred_Fury]

I rather have the comic in my hands than on my PC

 

[Darthphere]

I only download comics with the thinking that I will eventuall will buy them. For example, I downloaded Alias, and loved it, bought the omni-bus.

 

[Darthphere]

Also, if you need to find those really obscure comics that are almost as hard to find than intelligence in the Bush administration I think its ok. But if youre DL current ongoing series, thats wrong.

 

[Ben Urich]

sometimes it can be ok cos lets face it people cant get every comic they want to read from a shop can they.i mean look at #1's and stuff like that.

Good thing there are online retailers and eBay for stuff that can't be found in brick-and-mortar stores.
Comic piracy is never justified.

 

[Darthphere]

Good thing there are online retailers and eBay for stuff that can't be found in brick-and-mortar stores.
Comic piracy is never justified.

Piracy period is never justified and it happens. Im sorry ben but some people cant drop down a couple hundred bucks or more for full runs of back issues.

 

[Gogo Bananas]

Realistically, how damaging to the industry would it be to be able to download an archival reproduction of Action Comics #1? DC hasn't made any money off it's sale in over 50 years, unless you count the meager profit in selling reprints every so often, which I think they do to maintain copyright or some such.

 

[Ben Urich]

Piracy period is never justified and it happens. Im sorry ben but some people cant drop down a couple hundred bucks or more for full runs of back issues.

Lobby for the issues to be collected in trade or play the lottery more often. There's absolutely no justification for piracy.
I know it can't be stopped, but it still pisses me off.

 

[Darthphere]

Lobby for the issues to be collected in trade or play the lottery more often. There's absolutely no justification for piracy.
I know it can't be stopped, but it still pisses me off.

Yeah that works.

 

[Gogo Bananas]

The movie and music industry have adapted to some extent to downloading. Why shouldn't the comics industry?
How nice would it be to be able to download a fresh issue to your iPod?

 

[Darthphere]

The movie and music industry have adapted to some extent to downloading. Why shouldn't the comics industry?
How nice would it be to be able to download a fresh issue to your iPod?

I would never get used to that.

 

[Gogo Bananas]

I doubt I could either - I'd still have to buy the actual issue, but it'd be great when I'm commuting, or waiting for a movie to start, or slacking at work.
Podcasts with a comic download would be cool too - creator commentary as you read.
Right here on these boards are a lot of copyright violations, but nobody blinks because they aren't being shared in file transfer. What's the difference?

 

[ampersand]

I'm a pirate. Yarrr!

 

[AnnoyingSilence]

I pirate. and?

I also buy 14 plus comics weekly.... and i'm sure that if the comic community were suffering, they'd sell out like metallica

 

[venomadness]

Were in the hell do you download comics at? I've heard of it, but I didn't think it actually went on.

 

[Gogo Bananas]

Usually any file share program will have them under documents.

 

[AnnoyingSilence]

not allowed--Dew

 

[XwolverineX]

I have started, a bit. I know it's wrong, but with all theese big ****in' events, and been forced into reading more, toppled with the fact that prices are constantly rising, I said **** it.

 

[JackBauer]

Not allowed--Dew