Comments on: Are You An Accidental Movie and TV Show Pirate?

By: Abbernomad

Abbernomad — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:28:35 +0000

@ 102 Hi David. Here’s a response to your letter. Boo Hoo! You’re so full of shit, I hardly know where to begin.
First, the days of Producers and actors raking in the dough is over. The crew and actors have to peel the dollars out of your hands, so don’t act generous. Like any company, the CEO’s reap the million plus rewards while the crews hired to run the show are paid a pittance. (How many cameramen have a 40 foot yaught in the bahamas?) So blow that argument out of your ass.
150,000 people huh? Well. That’s a lot. So what? I’m sure Blockbuster had a few people working for them. Fuck ‘em. Who cares? If you, as a producer, could eliminate 150,000 jobs, I don’t think you’d hesitate. I hate how you try to come across as altruistic. That 500m could go into your pockets as profit, not overhead.
But the most idiotic thing you said has to do with your production company putting out turkeys and expecting people to support your bad movie decisions. Want a profit? Stop making shitty movies! Don’t expect the viewing public to support your dumb ideas.

Go on, take your risks, and if your movie sucks…well, tough luck chump, you took a risk!

BTW…
“there is a real risk that we will end up with all our films following popular formats – as they will be the only ones which get funding.”

Um…did you see the shit that was released last year? Your prediction obviously came true. Movie companies always hinged their success on popular formats. That’s why you have dismal statistics.
Good luck with the movie thing!

By: Mick

Mick — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:50:39 +0000

I paid a lot of money for my PC, and pay a premium price for wireless B/B.

I point-blank REFUSE to pay for content.

End of story.

By: DavidattheTrust

DavidattheTrust — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:47:48 +0000

@ GrX

“everyone here PAYS for internet if you can’t use it to download why are you all paying for super high priced fast broadband?”

I thought I’d respond to your question. Around 150,000 people’s jobs depend on the film and TV industry in the UK. Many of these are people who are freelance and project workers who depend on DVD / film sales for their income. When you pay for internet access that money goes to the internet service provider, not to the people who’s hard work went into creating the film and TV content that you enjoy. So paying for internet access is not the same as paying for film and TV content.

As you probably already know, the film industry is heavily reliant on reinvestment – it ploughs the money it makes from one film into the next and so on. The less money there is to reinvest, the more the industry dries up. The £500m we estimate as lost could go a long way to making more films.

One of the things I think it is easy to forget is that for all the big successful blockbuster films, there are more which the industry took a risk on – put money into but didn’t recoup their production costs.

For example, statistics collated by the UK Film council tell us that between 2000 and 2006, only 53 (8.1%) out of the 658 certified UK films released would have made a profit when you consider all the associated costs such as production, VAT, exhibition, distribution and retail margins, prints and advertising etc.

I hope you agree that it is really important that the industry can still take these risks as otherwise we may lose the diversity of films. If downloading unauthorised copies of film content continues – then there is a real risk that we will end up with all our films following popular formats – as they will be the only ones which get funding.

Thanks,

David

By: Nef

Nef — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:09:42 +0000

So I delete all ze GBs of media I accidently downloaded an get an A, yes?

By: StevO

StevO — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:12:46 +0000

ahh i need to also ADD that I hate commercials. I pay for the damned channels already, wtf would i want the commercials for? I have 99 channels and 5 that we as a family watch. The rest are shit we have to skip over to get to the ones we WANT. So keep in mind that we have 6 channels we PAY $75 a month for. And thats luckily about 4 hours a night TOTAL for all 6 channels. Considering 3 of those are LOCAL channels that we DONT need on CABLE, that would leave 3 channels that we pay $75 a month for. Oh and about 2 SHOWS that are on cable, and the REST would have been FREE if we DIDNT have cable. So SOMEONE needs to BLOW it out their ASS, for what we pay for those 2 shows, that are inundated with COMMERCIALS. Then those channels have PAID advertising on them ALL night and lord only knows what they play during the day since WE DONT WATCH it during the day. SO really we PAY $900 a year for 2 fuckin shows. ooooh please come after me for dloading those shows. Its humiliating enough!!!

By: StevO

StevO — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:03:43 +0000

Well, apparently when a new movie breaks box office records, it seems that all those people arent pirates.
I live in the US and I dload alot of TV shows, why? Because they run alot fo shows concurently and I cant watch all them shows. I pay $75 a month for cable and I watch about 6 shows. But i will be damned if I let them come get me for downloading the damned things. As far as im concerned my CABLE BILL is the RIGHT to download the TV shows that i couldnt watch. I pay $75 a month for that right.

By: whipped

whipped — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:35:46 +0000

Looks like the attitudes of these people need to be changed. I think all this will do is anger the populace more.

When will they ever learn, it’s always more more more more and just plain greed. I mean, do you have to drive exotic sports cars and live big? The rich have 90% of the wealth in the USA so what are they complaining about a few people sharing? It’s more than likely the average joe not some guy selling fake dvd’s out of his jacket.

It’s greed and the refusal to change that will be your downfall!
Until you find a happy medium you will never stop it, so adapt or dissapear.
Chill out and go away please or quit acting like spoiled brats and work with these people(TPB) as it’s likely they have some insight to how the future may be, and could be of some help. I’m sure there are better solutions than weird videos.
Companies are charging too much for downloads!!
Sharing is caring!

By: MD3

MD3 — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:35:30 +0000

People should use campaign’s material to show in court in case of a lawsuit. “I was an accidental pirate, even the industry recognizes this is possible”. Thanks copyright bullies!

By: TestCords

TestCords — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:57:45 +0000

Well I accidentally signed up with an anonymizing SSL service, so if, by complete chance, I should happen to accidentally download a torrent or two, things might just work out for me anyway…

Do I get a round of applause?

By: Digital Future

Digital Future — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:45:58 +0000

“Here’s how to bring my demand to zero: offer movies and TV shows in a DRM-free format, $5 US for movies, $1 for shows. And make new shows available for legal, $1 to $2 downloads around the world. I guarantee transmission would start collecting dust.”

Looks like Apple is moving in your direction:

“The new $99 Apple TV is a quarter of the size of the previous version — it looks similar to a square hockey puck — and will allow users to rent TV shows for 99 cents or first-run movies for $4.99 each. Apple has also struck a deal with Netflix Inc that enables viewers to stream content from the video rental site. “