Comments on: Movie Boss Says Piracy is Going Out of Fashion

By: prodigydancer

prodigydancer — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:40:48 +0000

@115

Pardon me, good sir. Do you seriously want to make us believe that the works of Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman were “substandard unprofessional productions” just because aforementioned individuals didn’t pay millions of $$$ for idiotic special effects and poor acting?

If so, you’ve just officially won gold Olympic medal in the category of… dumbness.

P.S. I could of course mention much more than just two names. But I doubt that the likes of you even heard about Béla Tarr for example…

By: TStyle

TStyle — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:45:56 +0000

Please get off your high horse #115, pirating is a direct response to overpriced movies due to extreme budgets from effects that could be toned down for a better storyline. I understand some movies like X-Men require more effects to simulate how outrageous superhuman power could be, but when you look at the millions of dollars spent to make a movie these days, and how much that cost trickles down to not only the movie ticket but the popcorn and soda too, you will realize that Piracy isn’t a fad, or what’s ruining the industry. It is blind people who can’t see how much the industry is trying to rape the common person of 2 hours of their hard earned money just for the price of sitting in a theater during any season of the year when they could be doing something else more productive with less money. Personally, I’d rather set the comp to download, walk away do errands, hang with my girlfriend and her son, and sit down for a family movie later at night, than spend $10 a person for cramped seating where people have their cellphones ringing and their 1 and 2 year olds screaming part way into the movie. Perhaps you do something about the quality of the theaters and price of admission and more people would go back to the old ways of watching a movie.

By: Fantasy and Reality

Fantasy and Reality — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:28:35 +0000

Hi, I’m from Hollywood, and I have a confession:

We deliberately leaked the upcoming XMen Origins: Wolverine workprint.

This was in order to kill two pirates with one sword. (pardon the pun)
The first was to subtly suggest how a film was made– the kind of work that goes into the process– an inside look so to speak (so that you’d appreciate it more and be more likely to part with your money), and the second was, at the same time, to scare you by lightly suggesting what would happen if a film ran out of money halfway through production, because of piracy and lack of support.

Do you see the quality of the above video? Well, that’s the kind of thing that Jaws would have become with piracy.

The kind of substandard unprofessional productions that you see on You Tube from average people like youselves will be all you’re going to get if you let our industry disappear because of piracy.

Think about it, and make the right choice before you ruin it for yourselves and everyone else.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:36:53 +0000

Piracy is going outta style! hahaha, what will I wear to make my eyes pop now?

By: johannesfaust

johannesfaust — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:26:30 +0000

111 Apr 04, 2009 at 08:30 by JinX
I think the only thing going out of style here is criminally overpriced theatre popcorn and the cup of piss you have to work half a day to pay for. Why is this shit 80% cheaper everywhere else you look? Coulda had a whiskey and a lap dance and got a boner instead of gut rot for my troubles.

100% TOTALLY AGREE!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:01:50 +0000

We’re facing a world crises, so I doubt it’s going out of fashion.

By: JinX

JinX — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:30:02 +0000

I think the only thing going out of style here is criminally overpriced theatre popcorn and the cup of piss you have to work half a day to pay for. Why is this shit 80% cheaper everywhere else you look? Coulda had a whiskey and a lap dance and got a boner instead of gut rot for my troubles.

By: Negative Crunch

Negative Crunch — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:06:03 +0000

Really? Damn and i just entered into a contract for unlimited broadband internet that I planned to use for downloading illegally. Guess Ill just buy some tight jeans and dye my hair black and listen to punk rock instead. Ive noticed kids doing that nowadays. Thats hip, right? Please, manufacture me some cool and please please show me how to fit in!!

GUess what, MPAA douches? p2p is not a fad. Its not a yoyo or a pokemon.
Its like my mom trying to get me to wear tighter fitting jeans because she has noticed that people arent wearing baggy jeans anymore. What she fails to realize is I made a choice and have wore my jeans that way for 15 years and when everyone started to do it I was already doing it and Im glad the pu*sy-fad-f*cks have moved on to wearing girl pants. Lets people know that I wear them for a reason, not because I want to fit in.
Id love it if people willing to listen to/afraid of the MPAA would stop pirating. Only the serious sharers would remain, increasing network efficiency (torrent) ten fold.

By: UpperDeckerPoopology

UpperDeckerPoopology — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:22:04 +0000

@ 101

Michael, I’d like to perform an upper decker @ your house:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa6MG_NSMQk

By: djnforce9

djnforce9 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:43:48 +0000

@101: And the grand total of that comes to a whopping amount of $0 since no movie, game, music etc… can possibly be “stolen” online (unless you can convert your arm and hand into 1′s and 0′s and reach over to the person on the other side of the world and physically snatch their CD or DVD. :p