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p2pnet.net News:- Broadband reports picked up on our Hollywood Star Wars leak in which we pointed out that while Hollywood’s current mouthpiece, Dan Glickman, raises all kinds of hell over file sharers, he’s oozing past the fact that Hollywood is literally the author of its own misfortunes.
Contrary to suffering untold hardships, it’s raking in mind-boggling profits; and, Hollywood insiders and file sharing are inseparable.
Anyhow, below, for your further education, are a few Broadband comments.
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Blame Insiders, Not Bit Torrent
Glickman affixes rage on wrong target?
Posted on 2005-05-22 12:23:18
ForeverZero: Actually GOING to the movies these days has become more of a hassle than its worth. I might go to see some BIG release, but not normally.
This is due to:
1) High ticket priced
2) Concession prices
3) I find that there is always some low-life sitting near me that decides he must have a running commentary through the whole movie, or talk to his friends about something completely unrelated.
4) Some MORON decides to bring their kid to the theater. This kid proceeds to cry/kick/make noise, and it is a RARE occasion that the parent actually takes the child out of the the theater when they will not stop.
I have nothing against kids. I have a problem with parents not being responsbile for them.
Also, I can’t BELIEVE how young some kids are that are being brought into the theaters. Their ears should not be exposed to this type of noise.
My 2 cents..
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OceanaJones: It’s easier for the MPAA to go after the end user than to look from within their own organization. The little peon down loaders with few resources to fight the MPAA organization will most likely settle than fight in court. The “insiders” with access to these works are likely more powerful, and the MPAA would never want to piss these important executives off! It’s easier for MPAA to get their government cronies to pass laws that put the burden on individual file sharers, most who are young people with little resources. Our government has no problems running roughshod over individual rights when it comes to protecting their high dollar friends. Have you heard about the new “catch all” law called “The Patriot Act”?
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GetAfrigginCLUE (unregistered, natch): Trying to justify Piracy is hopeless. Everyone knows stealing is a crime and you can whine all the way to your prison cell - exactly where all criminals, aka Pirates belong. Blaming the MPAA for some internal leaks does not in any way justify theft or facilitation and distribution of stolen property. All Pirates and P2P facilitators will do prison time at the end of the day - as it should be.
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C0deZer0: What’s sad is that my brother had recently purchased the new unrated Team America: World Police DVD, and about the first 5-10 minutes of playing the DVD were all anti-piracy ads against people buying pirated movies.
Considering it was a legitimately purchased DVD movie, I found it rather offensive that I’d have to sit through that garbage every time I want to play a movie… it motivated me more to pirate the movie just to spite them and not have to bear with said “opening ad.”
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cmarkski: The MPAA sound like a bunch of whinny babies. All these threats make people want to DL more Movies and Music. I have already seen Star Wars Episode 3 two times downloaded it and plan to buy it when it come out. So how are they loosing money again?
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Kracker Jack: It amazes me with all the discussion of the Episode III torrents that nobody brings up the for-free fan film Star Wars: Revelations. A 40-minute Quicktime that runs 242MB was released a few weeks ago. Without BitTorrent, most of us would still be trying to download it - people who make and distribute movies for free can’t afford mega-bandwidth. With Bittorrent, I was watching it an hour after I heard about it. This is why the **AA will never stop BitTorrent as a whole - there are legitimate uses for it, even outside the sphere of Linux distribution. This is what the judge ruled in a recent case regarding BitTorrent piracy - just because the system can be used against the law is no reason to scrap the system.
I downloaded a few movies a loooong time ago, but I quickly realized it was a lot of trouble for something that would be pretty pointless after the DVD came out. One exception to this was Star Wars: Episode 1. The downloaded version I kept because it is the exact film that I saw in the theatres on opening day. The DVD version never played in a theatre, at least not prior to the DVD’s release. (Is it the version they show nowadays, like in the pre-III marathon screening?) I like the original versions - I haven’t bought the new OT DVDs because I have the $250 “Definitive Collection” laserdiscs, and -those- are the films I remember from my childhood, and -those- are the films I want to watch again and again. If Lucas would give us “Original” and “S.E.” DVDs, then this argument would be moot, but as long as he monkeys with the films, I want a copy of the original theatrical releases. (Of course, this argument falls apart with a “workprint” of III, but whaddayagonnado.) And, unlike downloading MP3s of an album, which means I’ll probably never buy the CD itself unless I really really like it, downloading an inferior quality pre-release movie bootleg means I like the movie enough to probably go buy the DVD when it comes out. (Although wouldn’t it be nice if by the time Sith was ready for official home-video release it came on a dual-sided disc with a regular DVD version on one side and an HDTV version on the other? Please??)
Star Wars - Revelations link: »www.panicstruckpro.com/revelations/
My favorite fan film of late has to be the parody trailer called “Episode III: A Lost Hope”: »www.sequentialpictures.com/moviestarwa ….
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