Comments on: Movie Studios Sue ISP Over BitTorrent Piracy

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:09:29 +0000

I have always been of the opinion that so long as you make no financial gain from copied music or movie, then there should be no harm. These music and movie industries aren’t half as bothered about you making financial gain from the material (even though that is an inexcusable crime). They are bothered because the downloader isn’t spending his/her money intially on the product by obtaining it in a way that gives all these companies (not the artists) the money they used to gain pre torrent days. They are frustrated, really frustrated.

If it is affecting them so much, why don’t they just ask the torrent sites creators/admin to close down?? Why…..because that is too hard and time consuming, so instead they go after the downloaders themselves. All that does is give an impression of companies who like to bully and intimidate people as opposed to do their jobs and attack the sources of these available files, not the downloaders themselves.

And another thing, if it is supposedly even illegal to make a copy of an existing piece of copyrighted work, why do shops sell blank cd’s, dvd’s, burners and other software used solely for the use of duplicating material. They know it goes on all over the world and yet they never pull the plug on selling those items

Strange isn’t it?? The law, what a joke!! finding real criminals like rapists and murderers and terrorists is just too hard and dangerous a job for you eh? So what do you, go after people for obtaining music and films which in most cases are used for sole use anyway. Yes we shouldn’t be obtaining them this way but theres more serious crimes out there…sheesh!!

By: Eight news stories 27.11 — Bruce On Games

Eight news stories 27.11 — Bruce On Games — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:11:21 +0000

[...] Seven Hollywood studios including Paramount, Sony, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Warner Bros and… We are going to see a lot more of this if the film, music and gaming industries are going to survive. We are currently experiencing the biggest glut of stealing in the history of mankind and the ISPs are the only people who could possibly reduce it. It’s not nice to see that the Hollywood studios understand this better than the gaming industry. [...]

By: Zero

Zero — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:54:16 +0000

Total BS, It shouldn’t be the isp’s responsibility to watch over your stupid movies. If you don’t want your crap stolen then protect it better yourselves. Maybe if the movie industry was smart enough to hire good people they could have good copy protection on dvd’s…

The only “piracy” an isp should have to care about is people stealing their internet service..

By: tvmad

tvmad — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:49:46 +0000

ok now if the movies where not so expensive to go to with kids in soem instanses
and if tv sations stop screwing around with shows
pu them on take them off
do reruns
kill a show
ten there would not be any piracy
to speak of
some people i know d/ol movies watch it and then if it is good go buy the dvd
but i know some rent it copy it then what is the diffrence
get it for 1.99 overnight 2 hours later it is copied back to teh store the next day
no sorry tv stations are to blame for the crap that they have put themselves in
and the movies listed that they say where downloaded where shit and and they are using this bss to say it was the pirates who caused the failure of the movies
nope movies where shit in the first place

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:12:04 +0000

My ISP sent me an email which was from CBS outlining i had downloaded a tv show which was copyrighted material and that they should cut me off,(thanks for alerting me to Media Sentry :) ) but then a line down they said that this particular show’s episode was freely availaible from their website but when you try to watch it ohh sorry your IP address is from austrlaia so it can’t be viewed WTF….

By: bimbam

bimbam — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:46:56 +0000

Can’t understand them greedy film makers- check http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/?region=uk how much money they making. And thats only UK.
If u buy anything in the shop u can get refund if u don’t like it- u can’t do that with DVDs or CDs.
Now. Who needs over 2Mb broadband if they don’t share the files?

By: Dr.Demonoid

Dr.Demonoid — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:25:18 +0000

Wow, Sony *CLAP* for finally getting one media type right! What’s that make you like 1 for 80? Paramount, Universal, Fox, and Warner Bros. Produce something worth paying $10 to see and I might go to a movie theater. And lastly Disney, who the fuck cares, even kids think your movies are for helmet wearing R-Tards! The saddest thing is they’re all guilty of producing absolute shit packed with verbal and visual advertisements. But yet musician, actors, and producers still make record breaking amounts of money! So the way I look at, they should be more than happy making anything let alone the money they’re currently making. GLUTENOUS PIGS!

By: Krud

Krud — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:26:30 +0000

It’s illeagle to obtain things for free if the specific owner says it is. The owners in this case seem to be crowing thier case & all in all it will be the courts who decide. I’m not impressed to see it’s Telstra that y’all yanks have lined up on the choppin’ block & this had better not be another Bush-Howard style conviction by psychology.I want to see real proof & not just a pack of cowards playing mind games.

By: JimmyR

JimmyR — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:37:12 +0000

I’m about to sue the government entity responsible for building and maintaining roads because other road users are speeding.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:31:17 +0000

Michael Malone is the best chief executive of an ISP the world over. The man is down to earth and on the money with his perception of the industry and consequentially his comments. I listen intently to what he has to say.