Gibson’s Passion: still hot
p2pnet.net News:- Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ was the most-pirated movie on the p2p networks in April.
Extreme blood and hard-core sadism in every frame.
It’s the best-selling R movie ever and now it’s in the Eye of the Media again, this time because it’s sold 4.1 million copies on DVD.
That should turn the MPAA’s (Motion Picture Association of America) Jack Valenti white. Once more.
Interviewed by J.D. Lasica recently, he said, “I visited the labs at Caltech, and they’re running an experiment called FAST where they can bring down a DVD-quality movie in 5 seconds. The director told me it could be operative in the market in 18 months.
“Well, my face blanched.”
He also said, “Some new business model may want to put a movie out on the Internet just after it leaves theatrical exhibition. We can’t afford to let that be copied at that juncture because it’s the [home entertainment] aftermarket where you make your profits.”
A blow against home entertainment, eh? That was an especially interestng observation considering, “We are going to bleed and bleed and hemorrhage, unless this Congress at least protects one industry that is able to retrieve a surplus balance of trade and whose total future depends on its protection from the savagery and the ravages of this machine.”
That’s was Valenti in 1981 on the arrival of the dreaded Betamax VCR which, he claimed, would decimate the movie industry.
September 2nd, 2004 at 5:29 pm
if you havent seen this and your expecting a religious experience, you’ll get one hehehehe