MPAA lights into Japan
p2pnet.net News:- Camcorded copies of feature movies account for around 90% of “early-release pirate discs” in Japan, according to Hollywood’s principal mouthpiece, Dan Glickman.
Glickman runs the MPAA, owned by the Big Six Movie Studios, Sony, Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, NBC Universal and Disney.
Japan is also home to Sony which is, not coincidentally, a major developer, manufacturer and wholesaler of camcorders, as well as being on the Big Four Organized Music roster.
“In January the MPA, together with the Motion Picture Producers Assn. of Japan and other local orgs, sent a statement to the Japanese government supporting anti-camcording legislation,” says Variety, quoting Glickman as stating unctuously that it’s necessary for “ordinary citizens, the people who love movies,” to understand that, “buying pirated movies hurts the industry and makes it difficult for moviemakers to make new films”.
He was imparting The Word at the Tokyo Film Festival’s antipiracy seminar and interestingly, he shared the podium with none other than Sony Pictures Entertainment senior vp Dick Sano and “Toei prexy Yusuke Okada,” says Variety.
What’s a prexy?
Anyhow, “Okada noted all Japanese understand that ‘riding a train without a ticket is against the law and deserves to be punished” and that, “Buying a pirated video is exactly the same as boarding a train without paying for a ticket”.
Also See:
not coincidentally – Sony camcorder crook, July 31, 2006
Variety – Japan on MPAA map, October 26, 2006
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October 27th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
>Buying a pirated video is exactly the same as boarding a train without
>paying for a ticket
actually, it’s more like boarding a rickshaw
October 27th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
“Glickman as stating unctuously that it’s necessary for “ordinary citizens, the people who love movies,” to understand that, “buying pirated movies hurts the industry and makes it difficult for moviemakers to make new films”"
This is of course true I think, and I as a copyrightinfringer myself ( http://thepiratebay.org/user/kdsde ) have absolutely no problem to understand his position!
Of course if someone PAYS for a copyrightinfringed product then the rightsholder does loose money because oviously the buyer was willing to pay for product in the first place but only the price suggestion of the copyrightholder was not appealing to him. Then this sale is of course a lost and I as a copyrightinfringer myself detest those people that pay for pirated stuff! (do I get now one of those nice badges from the MPAA? I really want one!)
BUT if someone does NOT give any money away to anyone other then his ISP for bandwith to download the instructions how his HDD should set the 0’s and 1’s on his HDD so that he can watch/listens copyrighted content for free then this is NOT a lost sale! Maybe someone should tech this information into the MAFIAA!
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kdsde