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BitTorrent Blamed for Matrix2 Downloads
MartyJG writes "The BBC are running a story on how Matrix Reloaded is available via P2P. This time BitTorrent is taking the heat for the distribution - even though there's no company behind it to drag over the coals. The story speculates about the source of the copy, suggesting it's from a film or digital source rather than a cinema-screen-leech." Despite this piracy, the flick has made over $365M already. Including my tickets. Twice.
- Despite this piracy, the flick has made over $365M already. Including my tickets. Twice.
Once to film it and another to watch it, hmmm??-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
PLEASE RTFA.
This was a DVD widescreen copy w/surround sound.
... to know it wasn't worth throwing money at. It may have been a wildly successful film, but I won't be contributing towards it.
Is Neo a program running in some sort of meta Matrix, along with Zion etc? Well, get this -- I don't care! The characters are shallow enough for me not to bat an eyelid if they all get wiped out, and the storyline's convoluted and, frankly, boring enough for me to not be drooling over the next movie.
Endless "woo-we-can-slow-the-camera-down!!!11!1111" special effects do not impress me enough to put up with an otherwise laughable movie.
I think maybe I'm just spoiled by books. Anyone fancy making a handful of movies based around Nightsdawn? Revelation Space? Slant? Fallen Dragon? Well, don't bother; I don't think anyone in a position to do such a thing has the skill to do it properly.
*sulks*
fuckin morons...how bout we just start posting links to all the IRC channels, and news groups, and warez sites, and private FTPs out there. The entire point of this article was that yes, BT can be used for illegal stuff (like this), but so can anything else.
Enough with the spelling nazi bullshit. Why not try to, I don't know, further the discussion instead of pointing out typo's and spelling errors (which I will admit I made more than a few in the original post).
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Yes I'll and ill are not the same thing, but please.
I guess if you don't have any original ideas then being a spelling nazi or fr0st p1st idiot is about the only thing you can do on
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don't bother, it was a crappy disjoint movie without plot and without an ending. the effects, esp. cloning are overdone. waste of BW
"No publicity is bad publicity." ... and some folks still don't know it ...
"If the world ran this way, business wouldn't."
Yeah, I forgot... "business" is based on raping your customers through their wallets. Oh, wait... I actually meant that to be sarcastic.
"If I wasn't planning on seeing it in theatres, I might consider it, but I'd probably still wait for the DVD. How does this hurt them? "
The Matrix gained a lot of hype. The movie presumably opened in USA before it opened anywhere else. People in other markets could download the crappy quality movie and discover it's actually very boring, thus resulting in not wanting to see it.
Now the 'very boring' bit is my opinion, but it's very much an important aspect of this strange world the MPAA lives in. At VHS quality, the movie's not being shown at it's best. If people see the downloaded one and not like it, thus not going to the theater to see it, the MPAA calls that a loss. If the movie is really high quality and the downloading of it still satisfies their need to see it in the theater, then the MPAA calls that a loss. They're going to continue operating in this stupid mode until they improve the theater going experience.
Frankly, $3 for a candybar is going to do more to cause internet piracy than making the content availabe.
"Derp de derp."
Never heard of VHS-C?
"Derp de derp."
Wow, your pretty full of yourself. "It sucked, therefor I should get it for free." Uhm.. Ok.. if you say so. So just by me saying that all the music made on this planet sucks, does that justify me downloading all of it for free? And they should let me download it for free in hopes that I'll listen to future *suck* music because of it? Pfft.. wake up ichimunki, the drugs have you.
Can all fish swim?