Hollywood’s Japan anti-p2p bill
p2p news / p2pnet: The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) recently reported 2005 was a great year for Hollywood.
Eight films movies more than $200 million compared to just five in 2004, and, “The total number of films released in the U.S. increased by 5.6% from 2004.”
However, in a deeply emotional speech to a Japanese intellectual property rights forum, “We need to help people understand that when they take movies for free off the Internet, or for next to nothing from a pirate street vendor, they are killing the thing they love,declared newly appointed MPAA anti-p2p chief Bob ‘Boba’ Pisano.
“They are killing the movie business. And they are killing first of all the local movie business.”
Pisano said in Japan, more than 1.2 million people are active p2p file sharers, and more than three million have used p2p software.
Camcorded copies comprise around 90% of, “early release pirate discs,” he said, somehow neglecting to point out the vital roles Hollywood insiders play in the appearance of movies on the p2p networks.
He also failed to mention that Sony, one of the MPAA’s six owners, develops and makes tiny, easy-to-conceal camcorders, not to speak of disc burners.
Be that as it may, Pisano said in January the MPAA oversewas clone the Motion Picture Association (MPA), the MPPAJ (Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan), the Japan Association of Theater Owners, the Foreign Film Importer-Distributors Association of Japan and the Japan Video Software Association are pressuring the Japanese government for, “anti-camcording legislation”.
Also See:
great year – Hollywood reports ‘banner year’, March 9, 2006
newly appointed – Glickman ousted in anti-p2p role, September 23, 2005
Hollywood insiders – Star Wars ‘Sith’ p2p uploader, January 26, 2006
easy-to-conceal – Sony’s newest camcorder, February 22, 2006
March 12th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
First of all , downloaders are not killing the movie business. We’re forcing them to stop releasing crap movies… That and keeping them from keeping independent movies from making more money than the studios.
March 12th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
When I stumbled onto it ,I wondered ,what IF MPAA got the japanese Government to ban fansubbers from aquiring ANY unlicensed animes.
These are consequences of What Would happoen
1). US would only get the dubbed version of the unlicensed anime that got licensed.
As I always said Some dubs have good voices (Inuyasha for example) but some clearly suck.
2). Importing would cease to exhist.
THIS is a very grave problem…Do I REALLY want Sonic X the video game for The American PSP instead of a better VA which is the jap PSP version due to sony’s block this ,block that attitude. When Importing got banned then We HAVE to buy the US Version, thus I call Import Blocking which is a goods version of DVD region blocking.
3). There’d be NO fanbases in the US for the unlicensed jap anime.
This is ANOTHER big problem …DO we need the MPAA to do this just so they can kill that unlicensed anime’s fanbase.
those are the top three things that would happen,if MPAA did get the jap. government to prevent people from aqquiring unlicensed animes.It’s sad but it will happen eventually -.-. MPAA should really have no business in japan but there just justifying a lost cause saying that p2p is making them bankrupt (That’s a big lie made up by them.)
March 12th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
… He also failed to mention that Sony, one of the MPAA’s six owners, develops and makes tiny, easy-to-conceal camcorders, not to speak of disc burners….
I ain’t get it, do you want big camcorders and no CD burners?
What’s you point?
March 13th, 2006 at 12:51 am
I don’t love the thing. Let the killing go on.
March 13th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
I think he means Sony are producing the techonlogy they are moaning about.