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…

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.

100% TOTALLY AGREE!

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.

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

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

yeah and also count all the new releases that are just literally pumped with digital d1ck, sure when defending against piraters they play the poor man role but then when they’re make a new release they just go over the top with budget.

In order to disprove it I’ll state that the sequels of jaws all sucked.

In other news: Coka Cola boss says drinking water is going out of fashion.

I know my house takes up a couple of states and has a few million people in it

Stupid, stupid. Stupid.

But if I was standing on the corner pointing to or giving directions to the whore/crack house, The only crime I would be guilty of is ” Not having anything better to do with my spare time than standing around on the corner.

Your comparing a whore house to TPB analogy is fucked dude

Being a corporate blow-hard is going out of fashion.

Movie Boss Says Pigs Can Fly?

Jaws, one of the single greatest blockbusters of all time, had a budget of 7 million dollars. Adjusting for inflation, that would be about 26 million dollars today.

But the budget for the average Hollywood blockbuster circa the 21st century has ballooned to upwards of 80 million dollars.

If you want to whine about how hard it is for Hollywood movies to turn a profit anymore, then just look in a mirror if you want to find the culprits.

But even WITH the outrageous budgets it isn’t that hard, because as several people have pointed out, Hollywood just had its best year ever. So what are you whining for, Eddie Cunningham?

You’re trying to invoke sympathy for a non-existent problem. In otherwords, you’re just a conman out to swindle the public in the name of Hollywood’s insatiable greed for MORE, MORE, MORE.

@Eddie Cunningham
“If you or I owned a house in which prostitution was taking place, or where drug dealing was happening, we’d be responsible,”

Uh, no. Somebody please education this dimwit on the law. If two people walk into my house and shoot eachother dead, that does not make me responsible for a double homicide.

And an ISP is only a service provider. The “house” is a torrent site, the ISP is the “road” used to arrive there. Trying to hold an ISP responsible for filesharing is like trying to hold the asphalt responsible for prostitution because a John drove upon it on his way to a brothel.

@Stolen Rhone
“They will learn, eventually.”

No, that’s the thing. They won’t. They’ll hold on to their archaic business model until they die along side it. Hollywood has proven itself beyond a doubt to be incapable of going forward. Why do you think they’re trying to fight P2P in the first place?

Now wasn’t batman TDK the largest grossing film in US history, I don’t think they need money that badly…

AHAHAHA..

hilarious guys.. really.. nice late April fools joke..

This is blatantly false. If i were to own a home and rent it out to someone who conducts illegal activity, I myself would never be held accountable for the renters actions even though i may have know about them (which there would be o possible way to prove). It is soully the responsibility of the individual perpetrating the crime, not the owner of a home or in this case an isp.

This can also be equated to someone who owns a gun per say. If someone uses the gun to commit a murder the owner of the gun is not held accountable the murderer is, its that simple.

And as far as the claim “Piracy is going out of fashion” is only wishful thinking on the movie industries part. Never under estimate the power of denial.

You know what is REALLY going out of fashion? The current marketing, distribution and sales structure of the music and movie industries.

The movie/music industries need to evolve, not force the world to devolve and patronize their stubborn ignorance.

What gets me is the cam versions of movies are horrible quality, but so many people are willing to watch just so they can say they saw it without paying or waiting for dvd quality movies.

Out of style? I think the industry is past it’s cost efficiency for fighting it and is trying to appeal to some sense of fashion that doesn’t exist.

No less then once a week I get asked about this “bittorrent” thing and how do I(they) get in on it. These are coming from people that had no idea about it until the big media groups starting touting how horrible it was. The thing about calling attention to something is that more and more people want to see what it is they supposedly shouldn’t be doing. Once most people discover how easy and convenient it is… well you know what happens next.

They will learn, eventually.

Of cause private, with non commercial interest committed infringement (he calls it piracy) is going out of vogue . It is no longer the extravaganza fashion thingy done by the fashion crazy or extra rich that can afford the newest fashion trend.

It is now mainstream that so many people do, it’s no longer a fashion thingy only done by the top 10000 of the respective society.