Comments on: UK TV/Film Stars Urge ISPs to Stop Piracy

By: I Don't Eat Bogeys

I Don't Eat Bogeys — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:01:36 +0000

Thank you to the person who printed the list of names, I only actually recognized 2 names on that list and that was Lynda Le Plant And Richard Curtis. Doesn’t most if not all their stuff appear on the BBC? The BBC I am forced to pay for annually and therefore any broadcast made is funded by license payers. We should only be paying for materials of their productions anyway… ie discs etc. We already paid to have these things made.

Again though I don’t see the big issue… apart from when they wave it at me on street corners..jk

If you have sky and a sky+ box you can record movies to hard drive and watch at your leisure, so I just don’t get it, what is the difference. With US series such as Heroes, its only my impatience that makes me download them as the us episodes are slightly ahead, they then appear on BBC2 where i can record them anyway? What is all the hoohah actually about?

Lynda Le Plante, Richard Curtis….YOU’RE FIRED!… Sorry Sir Alan I just breached copyright on your catchphrase… You are the weakest link…goodbye

Wake up and smell the coffee, there are millions of downloaders and only a few names on that list by comparison… no government would get away with it, let alone one that’s position is already so precarious.

By: DemonSpawn

DemonSpawn — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:41:31 +0000

I don’t download mainstream movies and very popular music you can buy in Tescos etc. I download rare, obscure b-movies that aren’t made by Hollywood anyway, and obscure music that isn’t on Virgin Records and isn’t being sold by HMV.

It really is a bit much for huge multi-national companies to claim I am ripping them off when they don’t even sell the sort of stuff I am interested in anyway.

You don’t sell it = I am not causing you a “lost sale” if I download it. Simple.

People who say they disagree are either stupid or else they are just liars. Either way, they can kiss my arse.

By: mehearty's

mehearty's — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:40:18 +0000

“It’s very discouraging how many people believe they are owed something for nothing.”

You strike me as a wally that has relied on the media businessman to make you money. That’s fine your a creator not a businessman.

Go back to the businessman and ask him to find a formula that will make you money for your work, using the web.

When he finds that formula which is no doubt out there waiting to be discovered. You will lick his balls instead of the gov;………….

wont you toss boy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:21:02 +0000

“It’s very discouraging how many people believe they are owed something for nothing.”

Exactly.

All those British “actors” want ISPs to play nanny for them and punish the big mean filesharers, but they fail to realize having your face seen on TV or the stage doesn’t make you God damn royalty.

ISPs don’t owe them a thing.

Except possibly a swift kick in the ass for acting like pouty little children throwing a tantrum because they can’t get what they want.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:08:09 +0000

It’s very discouraging how many people believe they are owed something for nothing.

By: TerribleTony

TerribleTony — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:27:20 +0000

Charlie Parsons eh? And he was supposed to be intelligent.

By: TerribleTony

TerribleTony — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:25:57 +0000

These people still don’t get it do they? If ISPs could stop piracy they would have done so many moons ago. They have been down this path so many times, and it’s simply not possible. Unless perhaps the industry wants to subsidise the filters and extra work the ISPs would have to do. But even then, there are always ways around any restrictive system on the internet. That’s just the way it is.

They mustn’t have seen the Australian TV Producers talk on monetising hyper-distribution. They should, it is highly informative.

Piracy is good? Part One
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LxCoCTc3T5Q

By: mehearty's

mehearty's — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:23:49 +0000

Tackling piracy is becoming big business, the effect of this is piracy is mastating into ever more mutant undertectible forms.

Keeping up with this dillema is worthless, this highlights a change in the business model for a forward thinking innovative approach.

1. Create work that is a virtual master piece like the Dark night(made over a billion in revenues and counting), people will add these master piece works into their collection.

2. DRM does not work.

3. Try before you buy

4. Choose actors that are not your average big name star, why actors get 20 mill a movie is anyones guess.

5. DVD’s cost maybe 30p to make, 20p for distribution, 10p design, 10p shipping, 10p energy bill,10p materials, How comes we have to pay so much for a DVD? (stop ripping us off)

Harness the power of the web and stop whinning to the Gov, if your a director create some master piece shit because the days of point shoot….loot are a fallicy in the information age….son!

By: spiderman

spiderman — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:29:07 +0000

They Can’t Stop It. People will alway find a way to get free stuff on the Internet. Hey, to make some very good money online, check out
www dot thespidersystem dot ws

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:00:48 +0000

Those poor, starving pirates. Perhaps a starving African child would be kind enough to switch places with them, hmm?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:56:20 +0000

Those poor, starving artists. Perhaps a starving African child would be kind enough to switch places with them, hmm?

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:18:29 +0000

The names so you know who to boycott. It’s a shame Monty Python figures on the list…
Sir Alan Parker, Ken Loach, Kenneth Branagh, Mike Leigh, Nick Hytner, Richard Curtis, Richard Eyre, Terry Jones, Jon Thoday, Howard Brenton, Peter Bennet-Jones, Robert Fox, Lynda La Plante, Allon Reich, Andrew Macdonald, Ann Skinner, Barnaby Thompson, Bharat Nalluri, Caroline Hewitt, Charlie Higson, Damian Jones, David Heyman, Duncan Kenworthy, Giles McKinnon, Graham Broadbent, Guard Brothers (Tom and Charlie), Hilary Bevan Jones, Iain Softley, Jim Sheridan, Joe Burn, John Madden, John Maybury, Jonathan Cavendish, Justin Chadwick, Liz Karlsen, Lloyd Levin, Luc Roeg, Lynne Ramsay, Marc Samuelson, Mark Huffam, Mark Mylod, Mary Richards, Michael Kuhn, Nicky Kentish Barnes, Paul Berrow, Pail McGuigan, Paul Webster, Paul Welland, Richard Jobson, Robert Jones, Robyn Slovo, Roger Michell. Rupert Sanders, Rupert Wyatt, Sarah Radclyffe, Simon Bosanquet, Simon Channing-Williams, Simon Curtis, Simon Mcburney, Simon Relph, Stephen Daldry, Stephen Woolley, Susanna White, Tristram Shapeero, John Willis, David Aukin, Jon Thoday, David Sproxton, Murray Ferguson, Nicola Schindler, Jonny Persey, Andrew O’Connor, Andre Singer, David Strachen, Magnus Temple, Jed Mercurioo, Waldemar Januszczak, Jon Blair, Peter Berry, Ashley Pharoah, Matthew Graham, Ben Richards, Simon Beaufoy, Steve Morrison, Paul Smith, David Frank, Eileen Gallagher, Jimmy Mulville, Charles Wace, Roy Ackerman, Alison Rayson, Tim Haines, Jasper James, Daisy Goodwin, Alex Graham, Gareth Neame, Addison Creswell, Andy Harries, Mike Watts, Lucinda Whiteley, Malcolm Brinkworth, David Smith, William Burdett-Coutts, Tony Jordan, Sebastian Scott, Phil Morrow, Michael Waldman, Simon Nye, Frank Deasey, Peter Morgan, Bill Nicholson, Abi Morgan, Charlie Parsons, Peter Moffat and Simon Moore

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:13:46 +0000

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By: enter8

enter8 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:38:24 +0000

Has anyone read the list of names? Talk about a bunch of old farts. I think it’s time for the retirement home to up their meds.

By: yaycakes

yaycakes — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:53:37 +0000

Sorry r-tards the days of tv/film company’s dictating what we watch is long gone. Might have better luck trying to bring back Atrack players…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:36:05 +0000

@#1
“I’ll stop downloading movies if they pay me the same wage those stars get for acting in a tv show/movie/whatever.”
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you don’t deserve their wage.

risk=reward.

it is incredibly risky (bordering on stupid) to devote ones life to becoming a successful actor.

By: Eggorist

Eggorist — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:05:08 +0000

start throwing shoes at actors and such seems an iraqi has the right idea

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:22:14 +0000

I downloaded the UK show The Wrong Door. It never aired on any channels in the US that I’m aware of and it’s not available on DVD. How am I expected to legally watch it?

If internet piracy had been around back in the 1960s, there wouldn’t be a single “lost” episode of ANY show…

By: Jim Guardian

Jim Guardian — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:02:45 +0000

You morrons, you have a bunch of people wanting to download your shows, put FREAKING ADS in the content, or put trackers yourselves.

That letter sounds like a joke really.

Stop piracy…? Start realizing that the distribution channels are changing you stupid retards.

Want the moon in a glass of water with that too?

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:21:20 +0000

Meh, idiots… without bt I would not have known to watch Robin Hood and Merlin from the BBC. Good stuff…