MPAA: Damage Caused By Uploader Can’t Be Measured in Money. Now Give Us Money
Written by enigmax on August 04, 2007According to the MPAA, a file-sharer who uploaded three movies to the internet caused damage so great it caused them an ‘irreperable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money’. Despite cash being completely inadequate to solve this 3-movie download armageddon, the MPAA is having a go anyway - demanding damages, costs and fees.
The MPAA just filed a lawsuit alleging that a resident of Rome made illegal copies of, and also uploaded - three movies to the internet using an “online media distribution system”, probably BitTorrent.
According to the report, no address was given for Mr James Wilson - the man accused by the MPAA of ‘willful and intentional’ copyright infringement. According to them, he made unauthorized copies of just three movies - ‘Hide and Seek’, ‘House of Wax’ and ‘Robots’ and uploaded them to the internet.
According to the lawsuit, the Plaintiffs (Warner Brothers and Twentieth Century Fox), “bring this action to stop defendant from copying and distributing to others over the Internet unauthorized copies of the Plaintiff’s copyright motion pictures”
Noting that there was no financial motivation to the infringement it continues: “Defendant’s infringements allow Defendant and others to unlawfully obtain and distribute for free unauthorized copyright works that the plaintiffs spend millions of dollars to create and/or distribute”
The MPAA knows a thing or two about drama, it’s their business after all, so when assessing the trouble Mr Wilson had caused them by sharing 3 movies, they told it straight: “Defendant’s conduct is causing, and unless enjoined and restrained by this Court will continue to cause, the Plaintiffs great and irreparable injury that cannot be compensated or measured in money”
Of course, that doesn’t stop the MPAA trying to measure the costs: aside from demanding that any copies of the movies are destroyed (3 DVDRs I guess) they want substantial damages and costs for bringing the legal action.
Incidentally, the movie ‘House of Wax’ was also listed in the 2005 MPAA press release(.pdf) proclaiming the demise of EliteTorrents- so when the MPAA talks about ‘injury that cannot be compensated or measured in money’ I wonder if they’re thinking of how the last 6 months have been for Scott McCausland, sitting in prison.
And he shared just one movie.
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MPAA = Fuckers.
Period.
Greedy bastards
The MPAA wants the infinity dollars all to themselves…only they can sell digital copies…
Enjoy your infinity dollars. Try not to spend it all at once.
2005? They’re just now getting around to this or is this old news?
ive never even heard of these films. are they sure that he did the damage, or was it actually caused by them, by producing films that no one would ever notice.
considering how bad the movies are, i would just download them to mess with the MPAA, how does that feel??
I wonder when these greedy corporate bastards are going to realize it’s not the smartest business move to alienate their customers and turn them into criminals. The MPAA is a bunch of desperate fools plotting their own demise.
They do NOT lose money, because I would never have bought everything ive downloaded, because ITS TO FUCKING EXPENSIVE. They can’t claim that I would have bought it otherwise. So fuck them.
House of Wax…you have got to be f’ing kidding me!!! Thankfully he DIDN’T buy it, now maybe those fuckers won’t make shitty movies like that anymore.
The damage caused by watching shit films like “House of Wax” cannot be measured in money.
(Except for the bit where Parasite Hilton gets butchered up!)
Now give me money
Hopefully the pacific plate will subside
1. “Defendant’s conduct is causing, and unless enjoined and restrained by this Court will continue to cause, the Plaintiffs great and irreparable injury that cannot be compensated or measured in money” — is just legal jargon setting forth the elements needed for an injunction, there really is no dramatization going on.
2. The damages requested and the irreparable injury are completely distinguishable — the legal form here is correct.
3. Don’t get me wrong, I lost the inkling of respect I had left for the MPAA when they announced: when you upload you hurt the corn farmers.
Can anyone who is in then neighborhood for god’s sakes hurry over and provide the MPAA representatives with a bottle of oxygen, some necessary life support, psychological councelling. I mean: ‘great and irreparable injury that cannot be compensated or measured in money’, imagine, just -imagine-, if you can, what that must be doing to the plaintiffs who see their works [I haven't actually heard of these movies, but that doesn't have to mean anything], so shamefully ripped off, their revenue stream so callously cut short, the hopes and dreams of their families and friends rudely curtailed by this cold-hearted monster, this vile creature that does not deserve to be counted as being part of the same taxonomy as the rest of the species.
Help them, someone, somebody, help the RIAA overcome this bloodletting, this never-ending story of misery, pain and anguish that now will never see any -true- justice.
Where can I send money to?
“Defendant’s infringements allow Defendant and others to unlawfully obtain and distribute for free unauthorized copyright works that the plaintiffs spend millions of dollars to create and/or distribute”
Well, shouldn’t then be paying millions to this guy, then? I mean, he’s saving them all that cost of distribution.
can’t really measure the harm the MPAA is doing to society. there is no amount of compensation that can make up for the rights the MPAA is taking away from the people. this mafia organization is nothing short of a terrorist organization that is out to destroy the fabric of society and the freedom of the people.
[quote comment="142436"]Greedy bastards[/quote]
Yeah, they’re greedy because you people steal.
Think about it: cheap thieves are calling other people greedy.
Typical liberal mentality.
[quote comment="142771"]can’t really measure the harm the MPAA is doing to society. there is no amount of compensation that can make up for the rights the MPAA is taking away from the people. this mafia organization is nothing short of a terrorist organization that is out to destroy the fabric of society and the freedom of the people.[/quote]
LOLOLOL
Ok, Liberal.
That’s what happens, unfortunately, when a law gets enforced: innocent people sometimes have to deal with it.
Your claims are baseless, 100% baseless.
Business as usual for these guys. Too bad RICO laws were only made to prosecute the Mafia…. Right?
The DRM business model is broken. You’re in our world now. MPAA/RIAA should concede now before they do themselves more irreparable damage.
Jai, when you grow up and learn that not everything is black and white, and that not everything is ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’ then you may actually have something worth contributing. Until then read some books.
Jai,
I could just hear you back in the prohibition days telling people that drinking alcohol makes them all criminals and they should get out of the USA if they want a beer.
Or how about suffrage? Those damn women getting to vote is so thoroughly unamerican….
Those damn liberals wanting women to have a say in our society and a martini to boot. DISGUSTING!
And with that you are thoroughly pwnt…now go run along. Your daily fan mail to O’Reilly won’t write itself.
OK, You now need to stop being a RIAA-MPAA Shill and go spank off!
Tried to quote ScytheNoire, didn’t work LOL!
id like to see the MPAA and RIAA actualy have to prove that they loose money from downloading, because im sure if u look at there books sense downloading started back in the late 90’s that they have not lost one cent infact i bet we would find that they make more money now than they did before we started downloading
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