Comments on: Star Wars online leak

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:40:25 +0000

you shouldn’t be saying “bunch of mexicans”
that’s a horrible statement..
it can happen to anybody….
they found it out the internet and then made each individual fess up and traced it back…
this was not your normal copy of some guy just recording it on a video camera in the middle of a theatre… this was a copy with something on it that showed that it was from the actual place where that guy worked…. that’s what done it…
you shouldn’t be saying “bunch of mexicans”
that’s a horrible statement..
it can happen to anybody….
they found it out the internet and then made each individual fess up and traced it back…
this was not your normal copy of some guy just recording it on a video camera in the middle of a theatre… this was a copy with something on it that showed that it was from the actual place where that guy worked…. that’s what done it…
READ THE SF CHRONICLE STORY… it’ll show more details you ignorant mexican hater…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:26:16 +0000

Most likely it was a DVD copy of the movie getting ready for the November DVD release. Since he worked there it seems the worker was given a copy of the movie. The article does not say he stole it; he was charged with illegal distribution of his copy. A year in jail just for giving someone a DVD that someone else gave to you (you’d think he distributed drugs).

Either way, I’m sure it is not going to cut into the money that Star Wars will make from US and worldwide sales of the DVD in November.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:24:44 +0000

crazy how they traced it back to those specific people… bunch of mexicans. seems like their masterpiece would be more protected then that.. what format was it in when he stole it.. how did he get it…

for some reason i think we’ll never know…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:04:33 +0000

The cartels believe that one person being murdered doesn’t cost them as much money as one person “stealing” a movie or a song does. So from their warped perspectives they feel that “theft” of their “property” should carry higher penalties than would apply for the murder of an individual.

Since they have more money and influence than individuals they seem to get what they want. Just hope they don’t start demanding the death penalty. Well. I guess i’m assuming they haven’t already started lobbying for it in secret. You know, i don’t think that it would be too unlike them to want the death penalty to apply to “piracy”. The scary thing is they’d probly get their way. Even in states that don’t normally allow it.

They’d probly pick a state that does allow it to base their “jurisdiction” in so that any convicted “pirates” could be sent to that state for trial, and then execution. Or maybe they’ll not “waste taxpayers money” on a trial, and just go straight to the execution instead. It doesn’t sound too far beyond the sort of crap they’ve already done and are still doing.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:57:18 +0000

Three years in prison for uploading movie to the internet. Just listen to how absolutely rediculous that sounds.

Our countries aren moving toward police states, where the most minor infraction is treated as if you murdered someone.

The laws are just moronic now. Designed to protect the coporations, not the people. Our civil liberties are all being eroded away.