MPA to Christmas Movie Pirates:”You’d Better Watch Out, You’d Better Not Try!”
Written by enigmax on December 03, 2007This year the Motion Picture Association are getting into the Christmas spirit early with the news that ‘Operation Blackout’ has begun with an offensive against camcording pirates in 13 countries. When the MPA starts constructing their slogans from songs, they must be serious. Watch out pirates!
As soon as Christmas came within sight, the Motion Picture Association wasted no time getting into the festive fun by announcing the launch of ‘Operation Blackout’. Cleverly named to darken the mood of the world’s pirates (who are doubtless hoping for a contrasting White Christmas un-ruined by MPA action), ‘Operation Blackout’ is said by the Business of Cinema to be an “aggressive anti-piracy enforcement initiative”, targeting video-camera equipped movie-camming pirates in 13 countries.
The MPA must be serious if they gave it it’s own codename like the police and military do. Nice touch.
“Illegal camcording remains a high priority with our member companies. We will ramp up our anti-camcording activities during these region-wide blitzes which are a key component of our annual enforcement operations” said the MPA’s Senior Vice President, Mike Ellis.
Running right up to 31st January 2008, dangerous missions against people with cameras will be carried out in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. Operations will be focused on screens showing brand new movies and those caught will probably be made an example of, as part of the wider aims of the movie industry to re-educate the public by putting them in jail.
The start of ‘Operation Blackout’ will be accompanied by the launch of a new interactive web site (down at the moment) which itself is linked to a DVD-based training package. Aimed at cinema management, this combination of services will be their route to direct advice from the MPA on how best to catch the evil cammers in their own theater.
With a deadly straight face the MPA’s Mike Ellis sang this ominous warning:
“We can say this to all the pirates out there: you’d better watch out, you’d better not try”
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MPA == MPAA?
There is no way they can prohibit people with video cams more efficiently than they have in the past. Not with current manpower (teenage theatre staff). After all, once the camera is in and out of the theatre, we all know they can’t do a darn thing.
it’s not going to work. they may bust a few more people but there’ll be 10 more to take their place.
Ooo wow your gonna do absaloutly nothing, lol this is hilarious.. you actually think the management is going to give a fuck about your gay parade?
Its like they know nothing at all about how the real world works.. You think that your going to convince all theaters in 13 country’s to be on the ‘look out’.. and get them to all go to your gay website and look at stupid shit they don’t understand or cant afford. Like get night vision goggles! Yeah you can get those at the dollar tree!
Its going to be funny how many dvd screeners come out because of this.
I for one like what they are doing. Someone must put a stop to crappy CAM releases that you sometimes watch by accident instead of waiting. Fortunately I have come to my senses and realized that there are heaps of OLD movies to watch instead of the new crap. But my eyes have been burnt by those evil CAM releases more than once. :(
what they going to do, put “agents” into every cinema around the globe? bunch of fucking nonsense
you don’t *have* to watch the CAM releases. hell, it’s not even about letting people watch it, but more about “who is the first to get a CAM release?”. The concept is ages old. It’s the old battle for the smacky firstrelease.
Moo, the MPA appears to be the international counterpart of the MPAA.
I can never ever watch or download a CAM Release because They suck, I rather grab a quality release, and donate to the director of the film, and not the MPAA.
That’s right I’m gonna download pirated films and actually pay for it, but not the MPAA because they are evil/greedy pigs, I will pay the artists, actors, and screenwriters and tell them not to give any money to greedy evil MPAA.
I rather download DVD Quality, or 1.40GB quality, then a dinky CAM Release.
Good job theaters for arresting CAMMers, but bad job for arresting filesharers.
I HATE CAM RELEASES :( They are poor quality.
I Love downloading quality releases, not sCAM releases.
Funny thing is that most movie theatres in china, indonesia, malaysia, probably let cammers in so they can make more money, and have a dvd black market shop right in the alley LOL
ROFL use some logic you FOOLS, you will never stop p2p, so you bust 1 guy in 1 country, do you really think this will make a difference? We are HYDRA you just dont get it do you.
Brian i don’t particularly like CAM releases either but, like Knoeki said, don’t download it if you don’t want it. You obviously know nothing about pirating, and yes it is a battle to get the first release. If you don’t want to watch it don’t download it, or just spend some of your own money to actually see it in the cinema. Sheesh some people are such cunts…
Irony is I barely watch any movies any more and if i do want one i just ask a friend to lend me a copy…no bittorrent or downloading required
Great, put more people in jail over unproven damages. Why would anyone who cares about a movie settle for a cam release? They’re horrid.
How about I just don’t watch their movies at all? Blame THAT on piracy.
[quote comment="230145"]Brian i don’t particularly like CAM releases either but, like Knoeki said, don’t download it if you don’t want it. You obviously know nothing about pirating, and yes it is a battle to get the first release. If you don’t want to watch it don’t download it, or just spend some of your own money to actually see it in the cinema. Sheesh some people are such cunts…[/quote]
I am not a cunt, one time my mom downloaded a few CAM releases when kazza used to be around before the RIAA started suing people right from left and she saw one video and it was cammed, so she didn’t like it and I didn’t like it either.
[quote]Good job theaters for arresting CAMMers, but bad job for arresting filesharers.
I HATE CAM RELEASES :( They are poor quality.[/quote]
Just because you don’t like cam releases you want cammers to be arrested? How self centered is that? :/
Most Cams versions are horrible but others are great. I found a 300 cam version that looked exactly like a dvd rip but couldn’t be since it was only one week out in theaters. Fuck the mpa, mpaa, and all the other niggers. Besides, its not even going on in the United States? They think that a shit load of releases aren’t coming from the U.S.? Dumbasses.
The nazi aka mpaa/riaa are panicking lol…
seriously,these guys are retards.
fuck christmas its for moron
another scam to make the rich richer
i ain’t buying shit on christmas
i best gift we can give on xmas is to share even more!!!
Keep it coming…
merry x sharing ho ho ho!!!
real pirates are brave
fearless warrior who share anything we want in the name of freedom
we are not easily threatened or intimidated.
the rights of the majority is more important then the rights of the few who are selfish, self centered and idiotic.
We the people are waking up in record numbers. The few that are dictators are going down whether they like it or not.
You know you guys are right, this is great there doing this. Think about it, there wasting time and money doing something completly impossible, and even if they do manage to cut down on some camming.. so what, lol. This at least takes some pressure off the P2P community in some way or another.
Any person not working directly for anti-p2p efforts is a good thing, keep em busy chasing the sun while we download ourselves into XMAS!
[quote comment="230103"]MPA == MPAA?
There is no way they can prohibit people with video cams more efficiently than they have in the past. Not with current manpower (teenage theatre staff). After all, once the camera is in and out of the theatre, we all know they can’t do a darn thing.[/quote]
Google?
Music Publishers’ Association
Motion Picture Association of America
Jasper, the MPA linked is the Motion Picture Association, the international counterpart to the MPAA.
Heard it all before from the MPAA. surely they must be boring themselves with the same old shit over and over again.
Cams are shit, but hey, people like to bring them out and be first. Its human nature and i get the feeling that no amount of hollow posturing will stop it. they should instead sit back and reflect on what a fuck up this year has been for them instead of trying to shit people up before XMAS.
LoooooooooooooooooL
MPA i can’t stop laughing.
Do you know what you talking about ?
over 3500 Cinema in Russia-Moscow.
You think all of them will be under control ? Their owners doing it, so how will you catch the owner of the Cinema ?
They are giving DVDScr directly to pirates hand, no need to use Camera or other shit.
this ain’t gonna work buddy, this is a cheap way to scare pirates.
Find a good way :)
P.S: Pirate won’t die, if you kill Bittorrent, DC++ is alive, if no DC++, IRC alive, if no IRC, FTPs alive!
somehow people will share.
I feel pity for you guys. I always read news, you guys trying too much but it ain’t gonna work. Keep trying MPAA / MPA / RIAA / CRIA.
As i can see, you guys making good $ also. thinking new ways to bust and get money from movie/music companies :)
I lol’ed!
Im going to bring the biggest and fattest old tape recorder i can under my jacket then ill fake a recording and see if FBI rushes in just for fun..
=D imagine a giant dinousaur thingy 3tons heavy lolz..
Yeah yeah, it takes one $100 pay off and your out the door no questions asked. :)
lolz cams are a thing of the past. R5’s are where it is at, though I guess we still need the english “cam” audio for those.
Fuck those faggots with their stupid ass cams I hope they catch em all keep the crappy releases off the net.
Godspeed, MPAA, godspeed.
this is a great move!! seriously, i hope the MPAA spends ALL of their money trying to stop cammers so that the screeners and R5’s are left alone :)
yeah, a cam is all about who is first, we get it, honest. but any movie goer must admit they are shit quality regardless if u like to DL them or not.
its almost shocking that these studios can’t think of better things to spend their money on rather than stopping shit-ass quality cams making to P2P.
lawl love it, good thing i only dl the TC, R5 and DVDscr I’d like to see the MPA make a silly song about them!
you all sound silly.
look, all the anti-warez organs doesn’t want it to be stopped, otherwise they wouldn’t have any jobs.. they are doing their attacks or so called “operations” time-to-time, they could do it every week or so..
lmao mpaa makes me bust a tear of laughing xD
don’t worry, we can make a fuss here in the south.
Are they trying to say all these burned DVD’s I made for Christmas gives are no good now?
I say take your cameras into the cinemas and take as many pictures of your loved ones as you like, even in the theatre. The more thee merrier.
That’ll learn ‘em, keep ‘em chasing their tales.
Just remember to not capture the actual projection screen *entirely*
Fuck up their silly little scare operation good ‘n’ all.
The MAFIAA couldn’t pay me to watch one of those horrible “cams”.
Still, nice of them to let people know in which countries they can continue making these abominations that no self respecting movie lover would consider wasting his bandwith on.
“We can say this to all the pirates out there: you’d better watch out, you’d better not try”
Well that’s creative. Along with FUCKING RETARDED.
Heh…bet the interactive website gets ddosed to hell…lol
Lethal force is probably authorized…*yawn* if someone gets shot, maybe it will make the public hate them …o wait…
TPB forums.
We are having a serious discussion concerning this recent news.
Please come join us. Must bring you own booz and women.
http://suprbay.org/showthread.php?t=8357
See ya there!
You are all idiots. You are nothing but common thieves. Go on and continue with all your illegal activities. If it gets to the point where no company can make any money because of people like you, then culture as we know it will cease to exist. Why would any artist, actor or musician get involved in any of these professions if they can’t make a living. You are all selfish, cheap assholes. And no I don’t work for any of the “evil” companies trying to make a profit. But I’m not a stupid fucking communist either. I’m
sure there’s a place in hell for the lot of you.
@David
You obviously don’t know shit.
People have been playing music, writing and performing for centuries.
Way before this Capitalist view came into it.
Culture as we know it will cease to exist.
-What an idiot.
[quote comment="230335"]You are all idiots. You are nothing but common thieves. Go on and continue with all your illegal activities. If it gets to the point where no company can make any money because of people like you, then culture as we know it will cease to exist. Why would any artist, actor or musician get involved in any of these professions if they can’t make a living. You are all selfish, cheap assholes. And no I don’t work for any of the “evil” companies trying to make a profit. But I’m not a stupid fucking communist either. I’m
sure there’s a place in hell for the lot of you.[/quote]
You, my friend, have been to much manipulated by the organizations. Bittorrent-sharing are always better for the least famous people and least best for the famous people. What’s wrong in making the professions more equal?
[quote comment="230335"]/cry[/quote]
People like you are rarely taken seriously for a reason.
Last time I went to the movies, some buds & I smuggled in popcorn, five two pound burritos, 6 soft tacos, and a bag full of 40 chocolate bars in pockets, purses, and jackets. Your telling me that today’s recording equipment couldn’t fit in such quarters?!?
You’d Better Watch Out,
You’d better not Try.
You better not pirate,
I’m telling you why.
The MPAA/RIAA is coming to your town,
to find a way to arrest you.
The Police know your sleeping,
They know when your awake.
They taser and put you in handcuffs,
So obey the copyright laws for goodness sake.
Oh You Better Watch Out,
You better not Try.
You better pirate I’m telling you why, the MPAA/RIAA is coming to town, the MPAA/RIAA is coming to town, The MPAA/RIAA is coming to townnnnnnnnnnn dunt dunt dunt dunt dunt dunt.
Thank you everyone, thanx for listening to my song, (clap clap clap clap clap)
[quote comment="230358"][quote comment="230335"]You are all idiots. You are nothing but common thieves. Go on and continue with all your illegal activities. If it gets to the point where no company can make any money because of people like you, then culture as we know it will cease to exist. Why would any artist, actor or musician get involved in any of these professions if they can’t make a living. You are all selfish, cheap assholes. And no I don’t work for any of the “evil” companies trying to make a profit. But I’m not a stupid fucking communist either. I’m
sure there’s a place in hell for the lot of you.[/quote]
You, my friend, have been to much manipulated by the organizations. Bittorrent-sharing are always better for the least famous people and least best for the famous people. What’s wrong in making the professions more equal?[/quote]
You might be happy to know that artists and musicians, but also scientists, philosophers, writers, and pretty much all types of people responsible for “culture as we know it” existed long (as in “centuries”) before the notion of “company” you’re referring to. You’ll probably also rejoice when to know that “artist, actor or musician” are not motivated by greed and would keep on doing what they do even if it meant giving up their Ferrari… So relax, sit back, and enjoy the slow and painful death of the MPAA/RIA dinosaur you fucking little whining cunt :)
meant to quote the first quote, not the second one… sorry Deimon ;)
“dangerous missions against people with cameras”
My ass, they think they’re saving the world!
And yes, cammers are terrorist to them. “Drop that cam or we’ll shoot you!”
[quote comment="230335"]You are all idiots. You are nothing but common thieves. Go on and continue with all your illegal activities. If it gets to the point where no company can make any money because of people like you, then culture as we know it will cease to exist. Why would any artist, actor or musician get involved in any of these professions if they can’t make a living. You are all selfish, cheap assholes. And no I don’t work for any of the “evil” companies trying to make a profit. But I’m not a stupid fucking communist either. I’m
sure there’s a place in hell for the lot of you.[/quote]
Love this guys comments..
I want to go over them again, just to show how ignorant som people are.
Firstly, we are all idiots? lol, this guy thinks he’s Einstein.
Common theives? I don’t think i’ve stolen anything by copying.
No company can make money? WTF?
Since when is art, creativity and expression all about a company making money?
Love this one: Why would any artist, actor or musician get involved in any of these professions if they can’t make a living.
Wow.. hopefully this is the case and humanity get back some REAL actors, musicians and artistss. The world needs it. Look back in history buddy, the best artists, musicians etc. didn’t work for a corp. inc. They did it for the art,a love of it and for the betterment of humanity.
You are all selfish, cheap assholes???
Another great quote for this genius!
Everyone , quick, think of a Selfish, Cheap Asshole!! Who do you see? It’s a good discription of your modern businessman.
Then blah blah and going to hell, which HELL would seem more fit for Capitalist pigs wanting to horde all of human creativness for their own personal benifit.
I welcome this new world of creative sharing!
And to all the real artists out there who take up this realm and benefit from it, as many are starting to see now. Congrats and welcome to a new beginning.
[quote comment="230382"]You’d Better Watch Out,
You’d better not Try.
You better not pirate,
I’m telling you why.
The MPAA/RIAA is coming to your town,
to find a way to arrest you.
The Police know your sleeping,
They know when your awake.
They taser and put you in handcuffs,
So obey the copyright laws for goodness sake.
Oh You Better Watch Out,
You better not Try.
You better pirate I’m telling you why, the MPAA/RIAA is coming to town, the MPAA/RIAA is coming to town, The MPAA/RIAA is coming to townnnnnnnnnnn dunt dunt dunt dunt dunt dunt.
Thank you everyone, thanx for listening to my song, (clap clap clap clap clap)[/quote]
Those clap sounds are really the sounds of objects being thrown at the screen. And of course you forgot to mention the sounds of people booing and using explicit foul language.
All the mpaa and ria or whatever the fuck they’re called can suck my dick.
I am not a fan of cams, but I’ll damn download every single cam release this christmas just to make myself feel better :) Of course, when the good releases come out later on, I’ll; download them too and enjoy them haha bitches suck my dick!@
[quote comment="230382"]You’d Better Watch Out,
You’d better not Try.
You better not pirate,
I’m telling you why.
The MPAA/RIAA is coming to your town,
to find a way to arrest you.
The Police know your sleeping,
They know when your awake.
They taser and put you in handcuffs,
So obey the copyright laws for goodness sake.
Oh You Better Watch Out,
You better not Try.
You better pirate I’m telling you why, the MPAA/RIAA is coming to town, the MPAA/RIAA is coming to town, The MPAA/RIAA is coming to townnnnnnnnnnn dunt dunt dunt dunt dunt dunt.
Thank you everyone, thanx for listening to my song, (clap clap clap clap clap)[/quote]
I was going to include my own version of the song but i’m glad I left it to the professionals! great! ;)
who the fuck watches cam rips anyway?
[quote comment="230487"]who the fuck watches cam rips anyway?[/quote]
Thinking the same.
It won’t work in India. As its the theatre owners that record the movies & sell them.
[quote comment="230487"]who the fuck watches cam rips anyway?[/quote]
Noobs, people without any taste in cinema, cheapskates who cum at the notion of buying 1 dollar dvds from china, scammed ppl who think they buy original dvd but get sold a screener-kinda seminoob.
I just can say: HAHAHAHAHAHAH fucking morons.
Fuck you MPA!!! Hahahahah
They are people without work and do this shit to “stop” us and later they end in the fucking junk! Hahahahahahahahaha Motherfuckers.
The mpaa still doesn’t get it. all of the movies are leaked onto internet by their own people. i have not watched a cam version of a movie ever. I want the real stuff. I am sure there are people interested in these but not nearly as many people who go for the real stuff. And we all know where to get it. kinde stupid that the mpaa could be raking in more money than God. Funny, how this stupid attitude is going to be the death of them , nice and slow and painful. They have nobody but themselves to blame. All consumers want is their material they buy to do want they please with it. Pirate Bay said it best. “you should never tell people what they can and can not do ” Are You Listening? doubtful
I’ve recorded Attack of the Killer Tomatoes with my 20 year old handycam! and transfered it to a Betamax tape! And guess what? The videotape got all tangled up in the crappy dusty 15 year old VCR! Now i am going to cut out the tape, and paste it together again using sweat from my arsehole and poop from a dog. (That the conversion process) Then i’m going to find a white envelope and Puke+Shit in it. I’ll put the stamp on the envelope using my spit and send the illegal Betamax
to the MPA as a Christmas present.
Love + kisses
poopface
Fuck MPA:
I found that 300 CAM too, i think it was to do with the fact that they tried to clean it up, and as he (Fuck MPA) said, some are surprisingly well done, also, if you don’t want a CAM don’t download it.
simple as.
Down with the MPA – Lets see how they take a bite from a HYDRA!!! :)
1st probe of attack: flash a hidden number somewhere in a movie… to identify which country cammers are camming from…
2nd probe of attack: put survellance camera inside those theatres…
fuck the m-p-double-a
fuck the r-i-double-a
And again… the MPA prove they are running out of ideas. “Operation Blackout”. Well then you can call BitTorrent the “Operation Hydra”.
who cares, screeners suck anyways :/
Sounds great!! I expect to see some very good camera rips in this case. We all need a little bit of attention once in a while.
they did it again: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/03/mpaas-university-wir.html
[quote comment="230335"]You are all idiots. You are nothing but common thieves. Go on and continue with all your illegal activities. If it gets to the point where no company can make any money because of people like you, then culture as we know it will cease to exist…[/quote]
Is that what happened to culture when the works of Shakespeare were forced into the public domain?
Next you’ll tell us that the VCR was to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler was to woman home alone. I wish you’d do some research and look at past trends before mouthing off about things you don’t understand.
Their right to make money doesn’t give them the right to completely destroy the lives of everyone around them. Thanks to their relentless lobbying, even something as simple as watching a DVD I paid for is illegal under the DMCA because I use Linux. And by the way, what is so illegal about not watching movies *at all*, like I said? Calling people common thieves when you have no evidence could be considered libel. Shame on you.
“You better get a life!” Fucking anti pirate scums. The scum of the earth I tell you. Those queers are not going to catch one single person this year.
[quote comment="231090"]they did it again: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/03/mpaas-university-wir.html/quote
HA! Take that MPAA scum!
GO AUSTRALIA WE’RE NUMBER ONE !!!
IN YOUR FACE AFGHANISTAN !
Hey actually why are they being racialist ? no operation in the USA ? Good thing we signed a free-trade agreement ith the USA ….
[quote comment="231317"]GO AUSTRALIA WE’RE NUMBER ONE !!!
IN YOUR FACE AFGHANISTAN !
[/quote]
YEAH! THAT JUST HAPPENED!
MPAA is pathetic … who the fuck cares about CAMs and their shitty quality ?
My god, find another way to justify your budget.
I hope these MPAA bastards will have a miserable Christmas. Hopefully some greasy bikers from the local bar will be bangin’ their women folk while these assholes are thinking up their next hair-brained idea. Fuck ‘em, pirate everything.
This. Is. Hilarious.
the theater I go to locally is a pretty damn nice theater (they just recently had some HUGE non-projector Digital Screens installed in at least 5 of their auditoriums) and I’ve never once seen the staff actually come into the theater, and its virtually impossible for them to see what’s going on in the theater (save the first 6-10 rows) from the projector window.
If I had a decent cam (or a cam at all.. lol) I’d contribute for sure. It’d actually be hard to get caught.
considering that everyone on this site incrmiantes themselves, the mpaa/fbi/whatever probaly watches this site and all the members on it and for every cocky bastard that says”Ill never get caught, hahahahahahahahaa” or you think your on a religoius crusade because you steal shit. your first on their list.
Is this true? http://www.aboutthescene.com is now report it too but the claim the site is up….
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