I have to rofl when someone gets thrown into prison with rapist and murderers and this person is in there for downloading the latest movie….Damn this society is going to hell.

I suppose that counts for murder, rape and many more things also. Stupid comment!

However this article ws good thanks.

For those of you who don’t know who Mark Kermode is, he’s a film reviewer with an almost cult following which is truly international thanks to live streaming of the radio show and the free podcast, and he is often out of step with most film reviewers on some things.

Piracy may be funding terror and is definitely funding organized crime. I don’t know about the profit margins but it’s immensely less dangerous and lightly punished than trafficking narcotics. I buy all that.

Then, they have to put the home user sharing files in the same bin as the masters of the street arabs pushing contraband DVDs. That’s where they lose me and make me feel like digitizing everything I own and put it online in spite.

And a hint to the industry: camming 3D films is a non-issue.

Majority of the world population is like me who are poor and the first thing on their mind is what they gonna eat and not which movie they gonna watch. So I watch no movies, precisely I buy no movies. But just because I am poor have I no right to see what is made out of another human mind? I use my labor force to keep the world running too. Surely, if all the laborers weren’t there then there would be no movies.

Thanks to all these downloads that in recent days I am feeling very human. I have now seen more of the world. New culture, new place and new ideas. I wouldn’t wanna be deprived of that! But if from tomorrow I don’t get to see any of them then I don’t care. I don’t bother myself to go and buy a movie. Basic livelihood preoccupies me.

The music industry should completely stay out of the piracy thing. If an artist comes out and speaks against piracy then that means he is a low-confidenced amateur artist. Cause no matter if non of your albums were sold and billion copies of it were downloaded you can always make a good money through concerts. If you have a real talent then people, even if they have heard your song 1000 times in their mp3 player, will come to listen to your live song by buying a ticket. Now if people break into a concert without tickets then thats the real problem.

But reality on the other side could be harsh on these richest people of the world(the movie industry people). This has become their profession and the means to feed their family. But this leaves no room for them to demand millions of dollars for their work while the people who watch them hardly make a comfortable living. Where is the equality of labor? If tomorrow no body decides to watch their movie then they are certainly going to be in a big trouble. And then they will have to labor like most of us and they can’t watch movies as they can’t buy. This is so natural. If I who works 9 hrs a day sweating all the time and earns $1200 a month out of which pays $800 just for the house rent, nobody else has the right to earn millions, billions, trillions of $$$.

You know where is the flaw? It is in the constitutional books that limits our rights by trying to define them. Just remember what the French revolution brought down. So all the greedy eventhough rich people out there do realize that it takes just few lives and a cue to change what is illegal today to legal tomorrow.

http://www.tpuc.org/stoppayingtvlicencefees

@ Ben Jones – As the author of this article you may like to pass the word around about the above website.

As such it is frequently criticised as by the government for political bias and is extremely harsh when interviewing governmment politicians.

Man, I know mums at my kid’s school who don’t know what a torrent is, how it works or any IT stuff, they simply know that this uTorrent thing makes me look like SuperMum when I get the latest blockbuster for my little Johnny and his mates to watch on a Saturday afternoon! The “pirates” know it’s wrong, the mum at school, the gu in his 9-5 at the bank, doesn’t know it’s wrong as such, until you change the 90% of the people who don’t know what they’re doing it won’t change a thing!

So MPAA, stop wasting your money preaching to the converted, it’s too late!