Comments on: MPAA Scare Tactics

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:27:35 +0000

Another way to stop MPAA extortion is to make it too expensive. Make the MPAA have to drive through local neighborhoods and college campuses to try to find file sharers. This is easier than you know. I work near a neighborhood of college students, and someone has set up a wireless network which is not connected to the Internet. This network had all kinds of music video and other stuff freely downloadable. Although you do have to be within a certain distance of the access point, there is more content for the asking than in any other 1 area I’ve been. I am thinking about setting one of these up myself. I mean the Phone cartels, MPAA, RIAA, FBI, BSA, and all the other government and corporate trash are trying to stifle the free flow of ideas. A bunch of local wans will be really hard for them to shut down, and those of us with mobile wireless laptops can carry the information between the local wan servers. The local WANS can also be set up with point to point encryption over the cartel controlled internet to pass information between LAN servers. This will be like the old bbs’es but on steroids. The time has come that the cartels should have to compete for infrastructure

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:56:00 +0000

Hmmm they freely admit they’re engaged in a campaign to scare people… Isn’t that terrorism? Ok there’s no suicide bombers and car bombs, but the end result is the same, peoples lives are ruined and people live in fear… Sounds like a terrorist campaign to me.. On US soil no less. Where’s the dept of homeland security now?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:36:27 +0000

http://www.2mediarelations.com/px/loki/

forum to bitch in, no reg.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 23:21:35 +0000

Exaclly. We don;t care because these people make millions and we make pennies when compared to them!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 23:19:52 +0000

âThe illegal downloading of motion pictures robs thousands of honest, hard-working people of their livelihood, and stifles creativity.â These people make millions and we make pennies compared to them. We aren’t hurting anyone.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:55:17 +0000

Re: costing people their jobs. As a former union projectionist I can tell you that the LAST thing a movie studio, theater chain, or other entertainment company is interested in is the preservation of jobs. Union employees especially are targets for elimination at all times. Projectionists have been almost totally replaced with untrained managers or ushers and the terrible quality of film presentation today is a result. Films are produced in Romania or other former Iron Curtain countries simply because people there work cheaper, not necessarily better.

I for one, dont CARE if downloading this or that costs movie companies sales! Since when must we as individuals refrain from behavior that helps us because it MIGHT interfere with the financial plans of some company or wealthy actor or producer. Care about them??? They didnt care about ME!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:28:37 +0000

God, the MPAA is making my insides shatter

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:12:55 +0000

I think the ’seizing’ of lokitorrents logs and subsequent publicity is yet another attack vector in this fear-mongering tactic.

If the reactions on Slyck’s forums are any indicator, it’s already working. They’re spreading their own brand of FUD.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 08:41:47 +0000

This kind of smear campaign is the kind of thing which lands news reporters and tabloids in court whenever they try it against someone wealthy enough.

Now they do it against an entire class of early technology adopters.. i suggest the EFF push an antidefamation lawsuit and challenge them to either back up their claims or stop waging psychological warfare against the individual citizen.