p2pnet - rss feed: MPAA on ThePirateBay bust
p2p news / p2pnet: Hot on the heels of news that Sweden’s ThePirateBay.org is down comes MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) disinformation release, complete with a fantasy picture. And you know what they say about pictures.
“The operators of The Pirate Bay have publicly ridiculed copyright holders and taunted law enforcement for years claiming immunity to copyright laws,” it says.
But not worry. The MPAA is on guard.
“Since filing a criminal complaint in Sweden in November 2004, the film industry has worked vigorously with Swedish and U.S. government officials in Sweden to shut this illegal site down,” it declares.
And, “Intellectual property theft is a problem for film industries all over the world and we are glad that the local government in Sweden has helped stop The Pirate Bay from continuing to enable rampant copyright theft on the Internet,” says MPAA boss Dan Glickman.
“The MPAA has a multi-pronged approach to fighting Internet piracy, which includes educating people about the consequences of piracy, taking action against Internet thieves, working with law enforcement authorities around the world to root out pirate operations and working to ensure that advanced technologies will allow the legal distribution of movies over the Internet,” it says.
“Working with law enforcement authorities around the world” means police and other law agencies divert scarce resources to act as Hollywood cops, with taxpayers of the countries concerned footing the bill.
Meanwhile, the Big Six movie studios are in a similar position to their brethren, the Big Four record labels.
They claim they’re being “devastated” by file sharers (all the while reporting record revenues) but they’ve never been able to prove that a download equals a lost sale.
And while they accuse their own customers of being thieves, they themselves are accused of practising “rampant thievery” within their own ranks.
Also See:
down - Police raid ThePirateBay, May 31, 2006
rampant thievery - Rampant thievery in Hollywood, May 31, 2006
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May 31st, 2006 at 4:42 pm
How long before a TPB mirror shows…3…2…1, oh wait here it is !
May 31st, 2006 at 4:44 pm
“The primary source of newly released pirated movies comes from thieves who camcord films in theatres.”
First, Newly released pirated movies? does this mean these newly released movies have been pirated from someone else?? (see the article below this one)
Primary source…Thieves who camcord films in theatres?? Wasn’t there a report done that states the vast majority of movies being downloaded were screeners released from inside the industry??
How many times can you say liar.
Rick
May 31st, 2006 at 8:18 pm
A few years back one of the more clever pirate groups managed to sneak into an open FTP server I was running. Their game was (and may still be) to leave movies on open servers they found around the world, and sell not the movie, but access to the server (i.e. a URL). Legally, I bet they weren’t really pirates, in that they did not sell or publish the movies.
Anyhow, the point…
The movies they put on my server were certainly not recorded in theaters with camcorders. They were the full meal deal - DVD size and quality.
One could make equally good copies from the 35mm film, given the right equipment, and access in a theater, BUT… the movies were placed on my server before they appeared in theaters. One, Chocolat, about six weeks before.
Yahoo
May 31st, 2006 at 9:05 pm
While the mpaa have got their crayons out at least they are not paying people to steal evidence or conspiring with people to obtain confidential economic or personal information for media releases.
June 1st, 2006 at 1:15 am
quote from idg.se
“When my girlfriend finds a skirt or a blouse that she likes, she usually gets the paper pattern and sewing machine and starts sewing a few more… (she is really good). My mother did the exact same thing. This is stealing and they should get immediately imprisoned… I will also tell about my neighbours who just sewed curtains that looks exactly as they do at the store, they even used the same fabric. This is stealing! If they want curtains, they should happily pay the full price at the store and not use any piracy copies of some poor designers work.
I will also admit that many of my clothes that I used when I grew up was piracy copies that my highly criminal mother sewed. When I was a little and wanted new pants, my mother told me they were too expensive and that she could sew an exact copy for less than half the price!!! Free is candy, what an unbelievable moral decay that exists in the older generation!
Introduce a prohibition immediately against sewing machines as these can be used for piracy copying, or at least demand a registered license and high taxes. Since these patterns are specially designed for copying, there should be a tax per square meter. The money should then be spread to the clothing designers.
This criminal activity, that has been going on for generations in our cottages and homes, has to end. It must have cost millions in lost income for the clothing and furniture industries. Help, why don’t the European Union do anything about it?!!!
The police should start doing stake outs on sewing equipment stores and also demand information of which ones that purchase a lot of patterns, to then be able to search those people’s homes.
I really hope that I will win on my gambling money for even that copyright crime, so that I can get my mother and my neighbours busted.
Throw all our dear mothers in prison, or at least make them liable for major damages!”
June 1st, 2006 at 3:44 am
Motion Picture Association of America. “This was one of our No. 1 targets.”
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/intellectualproperty/0,71036-0.html?tw=wn_index_3
June 1st, 2006 at 3:58 am
as long as they leave the newsgroups alone….
June 1st, 2006 at 5:47 am
they won’t.
June 1st, 2006 at 9:46 am
they forgot to mention that most new films are screeners which come directly from people in the industry, like academy members, distributors, manufacturers. these are the majority of “suppliers”.
they don’t mention the real pirates are the ones who actually make money selling copies at car boot sales and street corners and inside pubs. filesharers and their “suppliers” don’t exchange money or services. just sharing.
they also forgot to mention theat the most popular p2p software/protocol is bittorrent, which best fits their description, as well as correct i suppose they forgot because the studios now “own” BT and bram.
on “facilitators”, do they include google and other lamescream corporate search engines which list torrents and hash files?
June 1st, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Entertainment industries = BloodSucking Vampires…No matter what you do, the people who doesn`t have money to fill their pockets, will find a way to get entertained anyhow…Be cool
Dj Gus live from Portugal
June 4th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
They don’t “own” the Bittorent protocol - it’s open source. That guy Bram may have orginally started it, but others have taken it far beyond. The BitTorrent bittorent client (”mainline”) , whih is Bram’s project,is one of the least featured, and gives users the least control. So it don’t matter if he sells out, Bittorent (the protocol and all thegood clients) will keep getting better.
What they really forgot to mention is that after the movies come out on DVD then there’s lots of quality direct digital copies out there which are either just as good as the original (bit for bit) or compressed (still a lot better than something shot with a cam in the theater). A lot of these aren’t even online, as more and more people are smart enough to realize that they can rent a DVD and burn a copy to keep and maybe one or two for some friends.
June 6th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Slight correction, The studios own Bram, not his technology as he released it open source.
And even then, I don’t think what bram is doing is evil, he has to make his money somehow. It’s not like anybody didn’t see this coming. The movie and music industry knows torrent won’t die.