Movie boss links ISPs to brothel-keepers
p2pnet news view | P2P | Movies:- Having just posted DarkNets: not tomorrow, but here and now, it was interesting — sorry, wrong word: hilarious — to read, “While discussing a softer approach to anti-piracy PSAs in the UK, the president of Universal Pictures noted that campaigning needs to evolve and carry an ‘appropriate message’ for today,” in TorrentFreak.
“Noting that piracy is going out of fashion, he says that ISPs will be held accountable – like those who run brothels and drug houses,” says the story.
What it boils down to is: having failed to induce the correct amount of subservience into ISPs, ‘persuading’ them to both grass out their own customers, and act as corporate copyright enforcers, Hollywood is reduced to innuendo.
The story goes on:
“The movie industry`s new approach to delivering the anti-piracy message in the UK seems notably more subtle than in previous attempts and is much less up-front in dealing with the issue of piracy directly. Instead of attempting to insult would-be pirates, it looks to instill a sense of responsibility in the viewer, reminding him or her that handing over their hard earned money ensures Hollywood can make quality movies.”
And to prove it, “they show what the 1975 classic `Jaws` would`ve looked like, had it been starved of money at the hands of pirates”.
Having tried, and failed, to terrorise people into becoming compliant corporate consumers, the Hollywood dinosaurs are now trying to pretend they’re good guys, really.
And what better way to prove it than with a little humour?
Here’s the fulsome, stomach-churning gush on http://www.youmakethemovies.co.uk/You-make-the-difference »»»
Great movies are all about you! Every time you buy a cinema ticket, genuine DVD or download, that money helps support more investment in film and television. You make the difference – because of you, we get to make great movies.
And we wanted to say THANK YOU! So this site, the adverts, and our amazing competition were funded by the Industry Trust for Intellectual Property Awareness – showing our appreciation for you, the UK public, every time you buy the real deal.
The Industry Trust does amazing work, safeguarding the UK film and television industry. And more new films and great TV is good news, yes? We think so!
It’s also great news for the runners, the stunt guys, the set dressers, make-up artists, in-between-shoots cups of tea people the guy who sells the popcorn, the girl who stocks the DVDs at your local rental shop – and everyone else, behind the scenes of UK film and television.
In fact there are 150,000 people working in jobs that are related to film and TV in the UK. So this is their way of saying THANK YOU! for supporting the film industry.
You really do make the movies.
What a load of nasty, insincere old bollocks. And it’s quite a contrast to statements recently made by the head of FACT UK communications boss Eddy Leviten to an audience of movie industry insiders.
Brits are movie thieves
So now Universal is speaking of ISPs in the same breath as brothel-keepers and drug houses?
But why not?
In 2007, the UK population numbered 60,776,238 [and counting], according to the CIA World Fact Book. And no less than a third of them are file sharing pirates, says the MPAA’s ‘Farcical Approaches to Copyright Transgressions,’ or ‘Federation Against Copyright Theft,’ depending on who you are.
The news was delivered by FACT’s Eddy Leviten in Stopping Digital piracy: Strategy and Tactics, a recent waffleogue sponsored by FACT and Warner Brothers Entertainment, Europe.
He’s, “responsible for raising and maintaining awareness of antipiracy and FACT related issues with the media,” and not only but also, is, “responsible for creating and delivering marketing and training materials and for driving internal communications for FACT,” said p2pnet, going on »»»
Thus, his talk, covered, how piracy affects the media overall, and some other things that FACT is doing on behalf of the media industry to make a positive impact on combating piracy.
For example, according to Leviten, the entertainment cartels have now moved far beyond simply accusing their own customers of being criminals and thieves, claiming sharing a movie or music online is exactly the same as stealing it from a retailer.
Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney [read Hollywood] and Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG [read the Big 4] are, unbelievably, now even folding borrowed and viewed movies and music into their statistics.
That figure, has gone up dramatically, Leviten stated, declaring:
We can safely say that people in the UK are engaging in piracy more, much more, than they were previously.
Does that mean UK Citizens who borrow music or a movie from the local library and then enjoy it at home might soon find a corporate copyright cop banging on their doors?
Nor are home users the only ones in danger.
Fact will also be, looking a lot more at streaming when we do the research for next year says Leviten, because, Certainly, the proliferation of those sites has caused us anguish.
No need to stay tuned.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
April, 2009
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April 2nd, 2009 at 1:04 pm
i just don’t understand how they have the odacity(sp) to claim that they are losing money because of piracy, yet there is news reports all over of them having a record year, i just don’t get it
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:10 pm
âNoting that piracy is going out of fashion…”
LMFAO !
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Oh well, I was never really one to be “fashionable”… no sleep lost if some corporate douche bags think I am unfashionable.
But for all you kids out there remember one thing:
All the cool kids are doing it!
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
losing money as defined by the cartels is ‘people are getting smart and aren’t letting us fuck them like we used to be able to’, or the difference between 12 billion profit and 10 billion profit is 2 billion of ‘lost revenue’. How can you lose what you didn’t actually have in the first place.
it should read that profits are down 2 billion, not ‘we lost 2 billion to piracy’.
fucking asshats…..
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:23 pm
@surfer,
Yep, was LMFAO too, for other reasons as well… like looking at how desperate they are getting and clutching at far off short straws. I think they are finally coming to terms with it:
- You cant stop it
- You cant sue the crap outa it
- you cant “out technology” it no matter how deep your pockets are or who you hire
- you cant brainwash the new generations about it
- you spend ages brainwashing a person, who throws out the garbage you put in his/her head in 5 minutes after visiting sites like these
- you cant fool people with “you can click but you cant hide”, “downloading is stealing”, “piracy supports terrorism” etc crap anymore without getting laughed at.
- The cats outa the bag, and the horse is out of the stable… then ran outa the state… went to canada.. felt too cold… ran to china… almost got eaten… ran to latin America and is off the radar…
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:42 pm
They’ve always known they couldn’t stop file sharing. It’s nothing but another attempt to grab control, influence public as well as lawmaker opinion with a bias puff piece, and throw out another page for using in the future to point to and say, “See here’s proof we have a problem”.
Over and over it’s been shown the figures are bogus, the supposed problem pieces are always influenced directly or indirectly though funding or self-interest, and have very little to do with reality.
It’s about the old Gobble thing of tell them often enough and they will come to believe it, even if it is false.
The demonstration that they know they can’t stop file sharing is in the fact that they pay for file hunters to go hunt only the most recent items coming out on market. Once it’s been out a few months, the protection money to the file hunters changes to the next latest greatest but it stops for the one they were previously funding. That tells you that they are mainly interested in protecting it only during the hot selling period of a fresh release. Not to protect it into perpetuity by paying forever. They know that is foolish and not worth the return on the money.
Last year was a record breaker for profits for the movie industry. It was all over the net. This year with the economy being in the dumps, ticket sales to theater shows are again setting records. So it isn’t the truth about how bad they are being hurt. It’s about wringing the very last drop of blood from the turnip and about the next time they go with hat in hand (stuffed with money of course) to the lawmakers for the next protection “must have”.
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
they are GIVING the worst copyright infringers on the planet 1 million FREE songs !!
did the cartel not figure out that I can surf to http://www.top100.cn myself and download even tho I am not in China?
This is paramount proof that the asshats are on the verge of giving up, for all the reasons listed by http://www.eZee.se...
delaying the release of a movie in other countries will only feed file-sharing demand, not curtail it. Thanks MPAA, luv ya. Can’t wait to get home and watch X-Men Origins WORKPRINT…
stw
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:36 pm
“the Hollywood dinosaurs are now trying to pretend theyâre good guys, really.”
To late.
Now we all know who they are and we want them dead. period.
BOYCOTT THE RIAA AND THE MPAA!
ERADICATE THE CORPORATE PARASITES!
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
surfer has it right, its not real money, I’ve even told my kids about this lost income lie
that most of corporations spew. Its not lost money its lower profits :ie FAKE MONEY!!
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:00 pm
@reader’s write:
i get the mechanics of it all, but still, how deluded does one have to be, i am a tech for an it consultant, if you have someone else fix your pc for you we are going to sue you cuz that takes money away from us, even tho we don’t know each other on any level other than alias’s on a comment page, also, if you come back with you use a mac, guess what i am still going to sue you because you are taking money out of my pocket for buying a computer that works 99.9% of the time
like honestly? why have they not been laughed out of existance yet, did everyone in positions of power just go stupid? do the rabid lawyers and such have no ethics whatsoever?
i just can’t wait for the day that the world wakes up and looks around and goes WTF?
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Well there was one good piece of news I read today. Over at TorrentFreak is an article that Dan Glickman will receive his pink slip sometime in the future. Seems his ho-hum lack luster performance as well as the turning of public sympathy (what ever little there was before) are the basis for the move.
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:00 am
“…Dan Glickman will receive his pink slip sometime in the future.”
He’s gonna be around for another year and a half, by the looks of it.
His contract was extended 18 months while they look for his replacement.
Naturally, it wasn’t just because of “lackluster performance”.
There had to be a $reason$ for it…
“the moguls in particular blame him for not being able to keep those $246M in tax breaks for studios and filmmakers intact within the stimulus package.”
(from this page)
http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/17863