Comments on: MPAA: Piracy Will Always Be With Us

By: HonestCitizen

HonestCitizen — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:11:02 +0000

Huh! I never realised that stealing had become so socially acceptable on the Internet until I read all these rather unpleasant posts. Although I shouldn’t be surprised, with the disgusting “I deserve everything for free” benefits culture we have these days. :(

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:58:32 +0000

“Yes, piracy will always be with us. As will shoplifting, drunk driving and many other disgusting, selfish actions.”

Killing an entire corporation of parasites would not be a selfish action.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:40:24 +0000

If you force people to develop a filesharing method that can’t be tracked and dwarfs torrents in scale… It is your own fault.

By: A Victim

A Victim — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:07:13 +0000

I always found it ironic some consumers want to destroy the creators of what they consume.

Yes, piracy will always be with us. As will shoplifting, drunk driving and many other disgusting, selfish actions.

By: Billy

Billy — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:45:20 +0000

It seems to me that newer business models are designed to drive their customers away.

As things stand, I have two reasonable options.
1) Pay to download a movie, laden with all kinds of DRM and restrictions.
or
2) Download anything I want for nothing with no restrictions whatsoever.

I have always found it a little ironic that media business’s are so keen to penalise the very people who are willing to pay them.
I can understand that these companies do not want people who purchase a movie releasing it for all and sundry across the internet, but these people need to get real. These movies are already available for free in all their full HD or even 3D quality (Yes – it is perfectly possible to rip a 3D blu-ray disk and play it back on a 3dtv).

By: A NON

A NON — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:43:02 +0000

@54 i agree

By: storm

storm — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 02:29:39 +0000

You know, I try and look at both sides of things. But all these industries lost my impartiality when they decided that as a musician I cant go to a local pub and play other band’s music.

Even for free. I cant legally download the chords to my favourite song to play in private anymore(and i dont have the money to buy the books of these songs).

Hell I also edit video, I made a video for my brothers birthday, A low quality zero budget video that was a bit of fun..i cant upload that to youtube to share with him on his birthday because I used a chili’s song. All these things have been taken away..and yet which one of those things cost the artist or the publisher money??

We cant share music..music is knowledge. I am scared of whistling the wrong tune in the street, next they will have spies out by campfires making sure people only sing non copyright songs LOL. they can sound as mature as they like, they are trying to control this situation. they are controlling people and trying to hide knowledge. Life just doesn’t work that way. How is it hollywood..an american film company has a grip that can squeeze the world?

Fuck em and all the sppeches, these are money makers..it’s not about lost money it’s about charging for anything and everything. you think they wouldn’t charge for air if they could find the excuse?

bastards.

The only thing i wanna hear them say is ” we quit”, the ONE thing i know they will never say.

keep on sharing baby , cause knowledge is too expensive these days

By: The Man With The Magic Wand

The Man With The Magic Wand — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:13:44 +0000

Alas, people with mindsets like Fritz Attaway and Craig Hoffman will always be with us. The competitive dark side.

That’s why we will always need sharing mindsets. The cooperative light side.

By: l-form

l-form — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:38:08 +0000

@45 I totally agree with you Mike. When companies lower their prices down to a level that most people can afford, then the incentive to pirate is much less. I would much rather have a legal version of a product than an illegal one. If a company sells something that people want at a price they can afford then they are almost certain to make money. As Steam regularly have insane deals on all the time I have bought loads of games from them. They have a great business model, and I have had very few problems using it. Pirating games is more inconvenient for me than it is to just buy it from Steam. I also know that whatever product that I want, Steam will run some crazy deal on it at some point. I don’t have to worry about viruses, legal consequences, and all the other hassles that come with torrents.
What the music and film industries need to do is create happy customers. However, their prices are so high that people are reluctant to part with their cash, and will obtain their products from illicit sources; their government lobbying and aggressive legal tactics is only driving more potential customers away. Piracy is not just about getting stuff for free, it’s also a political protest against monolithic oligopolies that abuse their power, limit freedom and hinder progress. They need to worry less about losing “potential profits” and more about creating “potential customers”.