I’m not sure what you do for a living, but imagine if your boss said he was going to cut your salary in half because there were enough people out there doing the work for free? Sure, maybe you’d find a new job in a different field, but you also might have a moment of resentment that after investing X amount of time and money on becoming qualified in your field, you suddenly find yourself struggling to survive.

This isn’t an us versus them issue. I think the debate gets framed that way because it makes it easier to feel better about pirating.

Obviously electronic distribution is the future, and to fight it is retarded. But you can’t fault a distributor who is trying to protect their investment of time and money they has put into a film.

For the filmmaker it is a different story–they get paid once the movie starts production. And if it is successful, and if they made a good deal, then perhaps they might make some additional money once it is released. But you can’t really champion Tommy’s position in this case as a demonstration of the righteousness of the piracy cause.

He already got paid.

This is a dilemma…[/quote]

The real question is will he get legal action against him if he downloads then seeds his own movie?

Seems in this case the distro. company is ignoring the creators rights.

Btw, Kill Buljo is an awesome movie. I downloaded it right after it found its way onto the web, and bought the DVD right after it was released :)

You sir, are a douche bag. I would post a fucking map to the guys house here if I could.

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I downloaded the movie and watched it, it was a really good movie and wow the female cops are HOT in the movie!

home telephone: +47 22137089
private cellphone: +47 97595347
work cellphone: +47 92044966
et@simonsenlaw.no

employer: http://www.simonsenlaw.no/

Office adress: C J Hambros plass 2 D
0164 Oslo

Salary in 2006: 3.576.353 kr

This story has been submitted to Stirrdup. Your support can help it become hot….

anyways. this news, as stated in post 26, really shouldnt be that surprising. And this Tondel guy is good, isnt he? hehe.

If they wouldn’t they’d have been out of business long ago. The directors and writers can’t be replaced. The distributors can. And they will. Given time..

All that french people will need to do is use a VPN. It’s what Chinese people do to circumvent their government’s monitoring of the country’s internet traffic. More on this here: wired dot com/politics/security/news/2005/04/67221

Nothing will stop people from doing what they wish to on the internet. If you ban something, you automatically create a black market for it. Happened with the outlaw of alcohol in the 1920′s, happens with drugs, and could be happening if they outlaw guns.

History repeats itself, these people should look at a history book and shoot themselves while they’re at it.

go do us a favor Espen Tondel strap a few dozen sticks of dynamite to your chest and go have a chat with your anti piracy buddies, im certain there are a few people here willing to help you with that.

P2P will never die, bloodsucking lawyers will.

This is a dilemma…

Just kidding, it’s a great country to live in :)

I have downloaded this movie and hundreds of other movies over the years. None I know have been sued over this yet.
but you never know..

Obviously mother fuckers like Wirkola’s distributor don’t know when to move on when it’s time. Shame.

I sure hope you got permission to quote/translate the article, given that TF are very sensitive to copyright in quotes :-P

Beijing-based Jeboo.com and an Internet cafe in Shanghai face a legal showdown with Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, and Universal Studios, the Xinhua news agency reported.

The film-makers allege Jeboo.com created software the cafe used to run a movie download business, and they are demanding 3.2 million yuan ($432,000) in compensation, Xinhua said.

Fuck the MPAA and Hoollywod, their movies STINK!!

Really appreciate the reply. I think it sucks for our French buddies and as I said it’s the slippery slope for the rest of us in this nasty EU!!!

I’ll send this to your email as well bud.

Also, if you want to get in touch, hit the authors names, we all have email addresses listed. If you want to drop me an email, thats fine – dmcawanted@gmail.com

Hi,

This is about the terrible French Anti Piracy Law they are putting through.

For obvious reasons I’m sending this anon, hope you don’t mind but anyway, check this – EDIT: apparently your contact thingie doesn’t accept links so, go to news dot bbc dot co dot uk and then click on the technology tab, it’s the main story as of Friday 10pm GMT

Oh dear, it’s the slippery slope isn’t it!

I’m Simon from the UK btw, great site keep it up and I wish Demonoid was back up!!

so true