Pirates are not their competitor. Nabisco is. General Mills is. Kraft is. Movies companies don’t understand that most American households are on a budget, hence the popularity of cd/dvd buy-back shops.

On a different note, a question:
Say for example, you were on trial for downloading an ‘illegally distributed’ movie to your pc. Couldn’t it be argued that it is not illegal since the copy in your possession [and the torrent you got it from] had no FBI or Copyright Warning?

While the entertainment industries push for harsher copyright laws, public opinion steers in the opposite direction. Two recent studies from Canada and Spain found that half of the Internet users use p2p networks to download music, software and films. …

And for the children that will immediately suppose I’m on the side of the **AA, the truth is that I’m actually amongst the 45% referred to in the article. I leave it to your fevered imaginations as to which article I mean.

There is no “right to recoup your investment”, although Citigroup, AIG, and the people who dealt with Lehman Brothers appear to think otherwise.

Being an artist has rarely been profitable, throughout history. Deal with it.

Um, yeah. What the paid place, if *PERFECT*, would provide is *authentication* and *quality*. Like, “This is made from the original master tape, as broadcast, by the original producers, with no cuts, in a high-definition copy”. You can’t get that kind of authentication from *most* third-party sources.

The pathetic thing is that the MPAA/RIAA companies have been offering damaged, cut, mangled copies, and the so-called “pirates” are the only place to get good-quality, authenticated copies. However, in those cases you have to track down the dedicated fans who have made the effort to authenticate — and for many things there are no such fans.

Madness……”
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LOL!

my thoughts exactly.

they should do another study and ask fat people if they enjoy cookies and cake. i’m sure the results will be just as riveting.

I feel like if I pay to see a movie and it sucked I would be encouraging the making of crappy movies. So if I download it and watch it and am like “wow that sucked” well at least I didn’t give the people who made a crappy movie money in their pockets for total crap. If the movie is amazing I will go out and buy it on blu-ray.

Same with music. 30 second clips isn’t enough to tell if the song’s good. I’d download the album give it a once through and if it’s good I’ll either buy it in stores or off iTunes. But who wants to buy a cd then have it suck? And nothing beats having the actual CD at 100% quality. so the download isn’t the greatest thing ever anyways. Rarely do I get downloads of music that are 100% copies b/c ppl aren’t smart enough to do it.

And free trials on software aren’t good enough to tell if it’s a good program. What’s the point of a trial version of video converter if it only lets you convert 2 minutes of a video? It’s total crap. I’ve had real video converters that work good unless it’s a 2 hour movie then the video/audio would be way off. If it’s a 2 minute clip you don’t notice this. So I’d download this software see how it works and if it works good I’ll go out and buy it.

Pretty much I use downloading stuff off p2p sites as a buffer of crap. I don’t want to buy something and have it turn out to suck and I’m out money. If I download something that’s really good eventually I’ll go out and buy the product. So why should I get in trouble for making sure I don’t get ripped off? I shouldn’t

And they will never stop p2p sharing. There are way too many smart people out there who will figure out a new way to do stuff. People will always share things free online so stop trying to stop it b/c you make it almost more fun. It’s like speeding, if it wasn’t illegal ppl probably wouldn’t drive way too fast b/c there’s no thrill in following laws.

From the beginning of software people wanted it to be free. Bill Gates was outraged when people wanted him to share his operating systems for free. So back when computers were first starting to be mainstream people wanted free stuff. Computers and free stuff go hand in hand. I understand the companies need the money so they can pay the people who make the products. But too many people actually buy stuff for it to really effect anyone.

and for the record, the internet is by NO means “new” technology. it’s been out for a LONG ass time, and was originally used by the military, but didn’t really come into mainstream usage until the 90′s, when aol was the big dog on campus, and dial-up was the best thing going. how about before you go and say something that stupid, then PLEASE do your homework. i personally don’t care if your job is with a multi-national corporation that has interests in film and music. that doesn’t mean you know ANYTHING when it comes to the fact and truth that the more that corporations try to crack down on piracy, the more it’s going to flourish. what the mpaa and riaa do not realize is that they might as well give up on their old as hell business model, and they SERIOUSLY need to overhaul their ways of doing things. i think the phrase “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” comes perfectly into play right about now.

How are you going to curb anonymous p2p file sharing?

Confirmation bias much?

So if it is a matter of making half of the internet user a criminal for their gain, they will do it. I am not anti-Semite as I am barely reporting concerns of other Jew with integrity.
It just happen that some of them, are crooks with powerful delusion of grandeur. They had it their way for over 100y and killed who either was standing in their way. The music and movies making the millions are of zero interest to me. Most of it is propaganda. These are prefabricated artist, with no soul, and zero talent. I have friends in the cinema industry, and none of them are wealthy in any manner. Only the executives and distributors make money.
If the internet can help in any manner to get rid off these war mongers, so be it.

RT
http://www.privacy.at.tc

@38, Live performances for music and Theaters for Movies, everything else is a free for all. Also I agree most of what I’ve really enjoyed lately has come from places I can’t get it here anyway, Britain and other foreign places. Well said!!

@42 LOL nice!
@46 Yes they are shooting themselves in the foot. More and more people are starting to see that what they get charged isn’t worth it, not in value, but in cost to get to them.

There should be laws on Greed, it seems to me that is where most of the problems of the world come from.

Because alot of artists have more money than they need and do not care.”

Your comments are based on made up facts that your tiny imagination comes up with that are really basic for a 16 year old.

Again, STFU!

And where is your source for that extremely generalised and broad statement TF?

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

Of course, this won’t stop the flaks from the IFPI’s Propaganda Ministry from claiming that filesharers only represent an insignificant minority of Internet users.

Not that it really matters, since at this point the Iraqi Information Minister has a higher level of credibility than the MAFIAA’s small army of sockpuppets who continue to babble on and on about how filesharing is theft, up is down, and the Earth is flat… All the while the rest of the world got wise to their lies and half truths a long time ago.

When you have studies where only 1% to 3% of respondants even think that filesharing should be legally punishable, I think it’s safe to say that the MAFIAA might as well be taking the millions of dollars it invests in propaganda(YOU WOULDN’T STEAL A CAR, WOULD YOU?), putting it in a big pile, and just setting it on fire.

No, wait… If they did that, then at least the money could be useful for something, like sitting around it in a circle singing Kumbaya or roasting marshmellows.

Okay, I take that back. Setting it on fire would be an improvement.

“Lobby groups such as the MPAA and the RIAA represent the distributors of movies and music, NOT the creators. They even pay politicians to support their cause by voting for or against laws so that legislation is made with their interests in mind. Is that moral?”

a factual conspiracy that can be proven but very large scaled… having knowledge that ppl like the RIAA are willing to conspire immoral behavior and our politicians to participate in it in itself should be a study… it seems our politicians have no problems making immoral choices in the name of whats better for (their pocket) the public (bs…). they proclaim they are doing whats right but yet know they are wrong…

i think a prerequisite for a politician is “must be willing to be immoral or preform immoral acts”

Because alot of artists have more money than they need and do not care.

Seems to me that all these artists on the major labels are yhe ones keeping the RIAA alive.

I’m not a huge music buff, but I know that Jonathon Coulton (Portal’s Still Alive) lives off his music. And his entire discography is available on his website. If he can do it, why cant all these other artists? Because they are greedy, they don’t care about working with the devil if it means they make lots of money.

Regardless of the stupid shit the RIAA does, this reason alone is enough for me to never buy their music. I go out of my way to make sure I give them none of my money while under those labels.

Considering 90% of my favorite movies are independent or foreign, I’m starting to feel the same way about that other 10% I normally would have bought.

if cops do find you keep everything all downloads in one folder and delete it and tell them that someone made you do it and tell them you where framed and lead them away and never do it again and if you end in court tell them to spare you and tell them i learned my lesson and i will never do it again and wait 3 months laters with a new computer and upgrade it that hacker proof

This want the fans of entertainment world want.

first message i wrote is to help keep entertainment world alive and our entertainment fans alive and will and support entertainment world and make good legal international entertainment streaming ofr for us and only us to enjoy and keep our fellow fans out of trouble with the international entertainment industries and copy right laws or our fellows fans to dont now law will end up in prison tell them what we want and i hear by declare this my first message and comment to my fellow entertainment fans and my other messages below are for my fellow fans to keep out of trouble with the entertainment industries and the goverments of the remember all fans of the live action and music entertainment. keep out of trouble and listen to music and watch movies. that are legal and fellows your heart and do the right thing.
and keep out of trouble and if cops do find you keep everything all downloads in one folder and delete and tell them that someone made you do it and tell them you where framed and lead them away and never do it again and if you end in court tell them to spare you and tell them i learned my lesson and i will never do it again and wait 3 months laters with a new computer

-sorry for bad language in this and my last post. lol. i had to get my point across though!

the overseer of the internet world and real world has spoken. and overseer means one person who see the world in bad future or good future.

remember my words of wisdom and warnings and keep internet freedom alive and will and stop all goverments of world from starting world war and nuclear war. One more thing the internet destiny is in your hands torrent users and fans of live action entertainment.

what will it be choose wrong way or the right away.

you decide if you dare your actions and thanks for letting me speak my mind and all torrent users and fans of entertainment. make my site reality and torrent freak leaders of the site our happy to delete my comments and will you do it please thank you and people and torrent users and fans of entertainment make the streaming legal site a reality to have international entertainment and everything from people who create videos to uploading stuff they create and make them selfs interent stars of world XD and torrent freak leaders delete my comments please lol