Revenge of the Sith online
p2pnet.net News:- MPAA Jedi Luke Glickman is upset by news that the new Star Wars Revenge of the Sith was online the same day it opened in theatres.
If the movie had been available online for sale at, say, $6 a throw via, say, BitTorrent, the MPAA’s owners would have cleaned up, what with simultaneous offline showings.
And Star Wars lovers around the world would still have flocked to cinemas for big screen views.
But No. Like its brother record label enforcer, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is bent on trying to sue existing and potential customers into doing things its way and to hell with the fact it’s now in the 21st, not 20th, century.
As actor Morgan Freeman phrases it, the studios are “a little slow on the uptake of the inevitable”.
“As part of its anti-piracy effort, the MPAA and its member companies have brought lawsuits against many Internet movie thieves across the United States and plan to continue such action,” says Glickman, completely ignoring the fact that nothing has been stolen..
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May 20th, 2005 at 6:59 pm
Seriously, as if it’s never happened before *hint, “the hulk”*
May 20th, 2005 at 6:59 pm
Cleaned up? Their computers would have been totally swamped !
May 20th, 2005 at 7:18 pm
I find it amazing how the mainstream media still eats up glickmans rhetoric. All you need to do is check out google news and you’re flooded with hundreds of stories taking the path of the dark side. Fair enough there is a little link to this glorious site that shows the other side, but here’s the big headline that I came across this morning.
http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=137715&SecID=2
And that’s just one of them that try to say that its impossible to verify if it is available or not…Ignorance is bliss for the media I suppose.
May 20th, 2005 at 7:25 pm
great pic ! =)
May 20th, 2005 at 7:30 pm
Downloading it is the only way I’ll watch it unless I see it at a friend’s house. Right now the RIAA and MPAA owes me several million dollars in fines see http://p2pnet.net/story/4023 .
May 20th, 2005 at 7:43 pm
no one is ever suprised at theft.
It has been going on for thousands of years
This does not make it ok.
barn
May 20th, 2005 at 7:50 pm
thanks for all your hard work george ; you’ll still have enough money to go to the bank with !
May 20th, 2005 at 7:54 pm
how was it theft? what was stiolen, and from where?
May 20th, 2005 at 8:04 pm
duh it was leaked to the internet by some studio insider
who if caught will surely lose his job glad i didnt go to the movies wouldnt have been worth the $8.25
May 20th, 2005 at 8:20 pm
Sew the hell out of the bastard who posted it anyway. It cost an incrediable amount of money to make a film. An incredible amount a work. If it was my film that had been posted on opening day I would press charges.
May 20th, 2005 at 9:00 pm
Yeah, let’s turn the world into a oppressive fascist regime to protect the meager profit margins of hollywood studios that bring us “incredibly” expensive gems like “Revenge of the Sith”. I hear most of them are pretty much bankrupt (morally anyway). Incredible indeed.
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May 20th, 2005 at 10:28 pm
jon, it’s not nice to characterise him as a Jedi – it makes him sound like a hero of the federation and it’s not fair to all of the law-abiding Jedi Knight filesharing geeks, many of whom waited in a queue in costume (at the wong theatre) for months, taking advantage of free wi-fi hot points to download it to their laptops it hours before the doors opened.
i would call him “Darth Glickman”, ’self-appointed emporer of the dark side.’
May 20th, 2005 at 11:06 pm
—it makes him sound like a hero of the federation—
I knew someone would say that. I tried him as Darth and it didn’t look as good. Too natural ; p
May 21st, 2005 at 5:24 pm
The entertainment industry continue to place a premium on all forms of entertainment.
Like a hungry animal they gooble up all talent and then charge us for the inspirational stories we used to enjoy by word of mouth until the modern state crushed all sense of community in an attempt to exploit the people even further than history had already.
p2p FREES US.
Go away entertainment industry. We dont need you anymore.
May 23rd, 2005 at 1:23 pm
I didn’t think the film was that good anyway. I certainly wouldn’t pay to watch it, so seeing it at a friends who downloaded it saved me going to the cinema and wasteing my time. If I had wanted to watch a CGI fest I would have watched Final Fantasy or brought an X-Box!