Comments on: Movie studios sue ‘pirates’

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 01:48:04 +0000

“Dropping 12 bucks to see if it is a good movie or not is not wise.”

Totally agree with you there. Plus you can’t trust reviews anymore. I’ve seen many movies that have gotten good reviews by critics which I hated, and many that got poor reviews which I loved. Maybe I have bad taste, who knows? Of course there is always trailers, but that usually isn’t a very good indicator of quality either since they’re designed specifically to advertise a movie by making look it’s best. In fact, I’ve gone to movies in the past that were completely opposite of what the trailer made them out to be, which left me felt like I had been lied to. Of course, that kind of thing happend more before the internet became a part of daily life.

While I’m at it, I can’t understand why they’re making such a big stink over something that is always so low in quality. Sure, I’ll download an episode of a favorite TV show if the VCR timer was set wrong or the time slot changed without me knowing about it until it was too late, and I don’t really see the problem with that. Especially since I have no interest in keeping any movie or TV show I download since the quality is always so incredibly poor. In fact, I think pretty much every movie or series I’ve ever downloaded I’ve either gone to the theater to see or bought the DVD when it came out. I paid a lot of money for my home theater and love it to death, so I prefer buying DVD’s of good movies/shows when ever I can. The only conclusion I can come to is that either these execs are incredilbly stupid, or just incredibly misinformed. Probably a bit of both.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:02:57 +0000

i agree with you, it takes 5 to 6 month before the the movie on dvd….why????

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:20:17 +0000

My son Jon was executive producer of the recent film Mr. 3000…and he told me this is happening to all the current films. And then he said, ‘And what are you going to do about it, Dad?’

“Well, son in a monsterously misgiuded manner I am going to sue the very people who may watch your tripe and like it on filesharing networks and subsequently watch it in the theatre or recommend it to friends instead of focusing our efforts on the actual criminal counterfeiting groups overseas and here….b/c son, we all know that it was that college student in his dorm that pirated that movie, mass produced thousands of DVDs and is now distributing them coast to coast and has recruited street-level sellers, all in between classes and on weekends.

Good work dad your my hero!!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 09:32:07 +0000

movies are always better in the theater. So if it’s worth the price people will go to it. Dropping 12 bucks to see if it is a good movie or not is not wise. Like the any industry if you make a good product it will sell. Quit dumping on us north americans and have a look at Russia and other eastern countries where your real problems is.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 07:19:27 +0000

i cant even down a movie from mp3downloadhq dont waste your time with this site

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 05:23:40 +0000

The real problem is the movie industry does not make movies available in divx or other compressed formats. People would buy 1st run movies (and other movies) the day they come out if they made them available online. In addition (best case) it takes 6-9 months after a movie comes out for it to be available on DVD to buy…and then one has to take that and create a divx file from it if you want to watch it when you travel or on your PC.

I don’t have time to go to movies anymore, so I wait for DVDs to come out…the folks on the street and on the Internet are filling a gap in movie demand that the movie industry does not serve today. Very simple, make content available online…