TPB: The MPAA are “rabid, obsessed lunatics”
Written by Smaran on January 08, 2007In a recent interview with the UK’s Sunday Times, Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay calls the MPAA a bunch of “rabid, obsessed lunatics.”
The Sunday Times article titled “Yo ho ho , buccanerds give studios a broadside” is all about The Pirate Bay, its founders, the problems it’s faced and how it all started. If you’re wondering how it did, the two co-founders first met in 2001 at the HAL (Hackers at Large) conference in the Netherlands. The rest is a Wikipedia entry (as opposed to the long-outmoded history).
Svartholm talks about how The Pirate Bay, and other BitTorrent sites’ popularity is a clear indication of “civil disobedience against the current copyright legislation, on a huge scale.”
But the real highlight of the interview is his opinion on how publishers are afraid, due to lack of knowledge about BitTorrent and filesharing, of how their content is being stolen. He says, “Some publishers are afraid — out of ignorance — but even though they are wrong I can respect that. Some, however, like the MPAA can most accurately be described as rabid, obsessed lunatics.”
Rabid, obsessed lunatics? I’m not sure too many people would disagree. In the past few years, the MPAA have single-handedly done some of the most outrageous things to prevent their movies from being “stolen”. They’ve sued a company for pre-loading legally purchased movie DVDs onto iPods, Stalked Svartholm, bred anti-piracy, DVD-sniffing dogs and banned Americans from inviting more than a certain number of people over to watch movies on a larger-than-29″ screen Home Theatre system. Oh wait, that last one didn’t happen. What’s really sad is that if they did actually do something like that, it wouldn’t surprise anyone!
Creative Commons photograph by David Wise.
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holmes, the part about the MPAA banning home theatres was a SATIRE. meaning that its not actually true, but alot of people think its not too farfetched. Other than that, good article.
lol - I agree with what they see. How sad are they!
Jack
I agree with him 100%
[quote comment="37228"]holmes, the part about the MPAA banning home theatres was a SATIRE. meaning that its not actually true, but alot of people think its not too farfetched. Other than that, good article.[/quote]
Yeah we know it was SATIRE :S
Read again, and click the link.
so true. i totally agree
Lol Ben… ya think?! The name of the freaking link was “…mpaa-satire-is-just-too-realistic/”. RTFM xD
At school we can not show a movie on a prpjector without paying a fee to the rental company, because it has to pay the studios or something. we might be getting robbed here, but people do charge the stupid fee if we use the outside projector for a moonlight movie night.
Actually, they’re trying very hard to have anything over a 29/30 inch tv with stereo sound and more than two chairs be deemed as a “home theatre” and you have to pay fifty dollars. also, anyone you invite should technically have to own a copy of the movie you’re playing to be allowed to watch it. pretty nuts.
As I live outside of the U.S. I know MANY MANY English (teaching) schools that have lazy teachers and just put on a movie (especially for younger students). I guess the next thing we know is some student will learn how to report the school to the MPAA and these poor students won´t be able to learn English.
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