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MPAA Opens Anti-filesharing Website
PontifexPrimus writes "The MPAA's new advertising campaign against movie piracy has a home on the internet. Did you know that 'Network users have a back door to your hard drive while you're online, thereby seeing your personal, private information, such as bank records, social security number, etc.'? Learn about the dangers of filesharing!"
....your Microsoft O/S is completely secure.
I ran a file share app, someone "hacked" my computer and put those .mp3's there. It wasn't me. ;)
;)
Anybody mirror the site yet?
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Only produce movies starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, that way... No one will want to pirate them because they suck so bad!
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I was worried when I read this article, until I remembered that I am immune to this kind of thing ever since I bought the software that prevents my computer from broadcasting an IP address. I'm so glad I clicked on that popup ad!
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
You also become a distribution source for illegal downloading of movies, music and more, which makes you just as responsible if you had downloaded the movie yourself.
So the riaa should really sue the riaa since they were offering songs for download when their website got broken into?
Everyone that disagrees with me is a paid shill
If they're anything like RIAA, they'll be hacked pretty quickly...
The RIAA website used to have an unpassword protected administration page at riaa.org/admin/ - helpfully pointed out by robots.txt!
The link got posted on FARK and Slashdot and several hundred fake news items got posted (including everyone's favorite goatse man) until they finally took it down.
Whoops!
And these are the people some Congressmen want to trust to hack filesharer's computers to remove copywritten works? Heh heh heh...
This filesharing thing sounds as dangerous as needle sharing.
I just saw 'Pirates of the Caribbean'. 'Sometimes the right path, the right course, requires a little piracy'
Or, if you want, try this link.
You are not the customer.
The sound isn't right, the picture isn't in focus, people are walking in front of the camera, and scenes are missing. Is that any way to experience the magic of the movies? Don't take LSD or any other type of illegal substance and that won't happen.
Did you know any user can log the IP of any comment made to Slashdot?
Many people don't know this about Posting to Slashdot but when you make a Post to Slashdot some of your most personal information is included. Any troll, flamer or crapflooder can get your social security number, bank account password and a DNA sample from a backdoor in your post!
Apher, Benjamin, Backdoor, Duload, Fizzer, Hantner, Klez, Neuer, Nimda, Livra and Magic Eightball
Good to see they include viruses/worms that have no history of spreading via P2P, like Klez and Nimda. Hey, why don't you put Code Red and Slammer/Sapphire up there too?
Nope. Nor did I know that I can get music and movies online for free. Thanks for informing me, MPAA!
- Joe User
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You know, I bet MPAA lawyers could make a good case for sueing anybody who mirrors their slashdotted site. Hey, it's copyright infringement isn't it?
But it's so priceless, on the page of ''Why you should care", they say:
When you download movies illegally from the internet, you're breaking the law.
genius...
> 'Network users have a back door to your hard drive while you're online, thereby seeing your personal, private information, such as bank records, social security number, etc.'
Dammit! Did I put my_ssn.txt and my_bank_records.txt into ~shared AGAIN!? Damn the insecurity!
My other car is first.
Yes! many people don't know this but all writing was done after 1790 when copyright law was created in America.
All those books that claim to be from before then where actually written in the 1800s! Since the whole history of mankind had no writing before 1790 they just pretended some where written before that so history wasn't so empty.
For instance you heard of Socrates? He actually lived in Trenton during the 1860s. Shakespeare? He was from a small town outside Atlanta Georgia and wrote all those plays between 1800 and 1823. As for the philospher LaoTzu, he lived off Canal St. in ChinaTown and wrote all that philosophy stuff after the civil war. Oh and that father of free market economics Adam Smith? He lived in Poughkeepsie and wrote Wealth of Nations in 1922!
I think the website is a great idea. What a good resource. In fact I think I will need to check this website many, many times a day. I would recommened we all do so. Keep going to the site and download as much of the valuable and correct information as we can, as often as we can. I just might have to tell everyone I know about it. If, per chance, the site can't handle the load we should all just keep trying, because hey, that set painter guy might lose his job, and even though the execs aren't in trouble of losing theirs, this important and truthful information might change the whole industry in favor of the 'little guy'. Because hey, that is what is at stake.
I'm glad they tell me. I didn't know I'm breaking the law when doing something illegal.
Is the theft of your personal information worth the free movie?
Duuuuude...I can get free movies?!
Why didn't they tell me this earlier?
Most of the time, the movies available for download on the Internet are obtained when someone sneaks a camcorder into a theatre and illegally records the movie up on the screen.
The sound isn't right,
the picture isn't in focus,
people are walking in front of the camera,
[...]
Is that any way to experience the magic of the movies?
Reminds me a lot of my trip to the cinema yesterday to watch Pirates of the Caribean.. course that costed me 15 bucks after candy and a small pop.
I have some news for you: Don't make movies that suck
I have some news for you. We are dealing with a common denominator here. The general American public will purchase just about anything and it does not matter the qualtiy. Lemme see if I can think of some examples: In the movies we have "Rob Schneider is (x)" People go to see that! And it must make a profit, because they keep making these Rob Schneider films. In the computer business we have Windows. And people continue to purchase Windows. Take your pick of any of this absolute tripe posted for sale in the inserts of your local Sunday paper. Today I saw a porcelain figuring of a teddy bear in desert cammo holding an AR-15. People must buy this stuff or we would not see this sort of crap. The other thing that amazes me is that people actually spend time out of their lives to make this stuff.
All that said, I am solidly in support of making more quality movies and fewer movies that suck.
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Keep that dirty old Senator out of your hard drive! He might be trying to look at those naked pictures you took for your wife!
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The risks of attending movies in theatres -- exposure to disease (SARS, tuberculosis, other airborne pathogens), risks to your sanity (insipid "previews," the idiot behind you with the cell phone, the gaggle of girls talking through the whole thing, bad sound and worse pictures), parking lot mayhem, $6 for a bucket of popcorn that's coated with the same stuff they spread on the floors to give them that wonderful, MPAA-approved tacky feel...
But then you didn't expect a balanced presentation, did you?
Perhaps the set designers, grips, make-up artists, etc, could all make a bit more if the big names stars weren't payed outrageuously. Arnold was payed around $30 million for his recent role in T3. Perhaps if they had skimped a bit and only paid him $29 million, the 'real people' could get paid more.
Seems like the MPAA is just a tad gluttonous these days.
So MPAA, take a chill pill. We're not going to drive your poor key grip and dolly boys into homelessness. WTF is a 'key grip' anyway???
He holds the car keys of all the Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Jags, Lexuses (Lexi?), and Mercedez-Benzs for the actors and actresses while they are filming so that no one can steal their car.
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. -- Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Jack Valenti isn't human at all. He's a high-performance killing machine sent from the future to wipe out filesharing -- and with it, all hope for humanity's future.
Jesus, I think I should go to bed.
Only 4 out of 10 films turn a profit.
6 out of 10 films suck.
And odds are, at least three of those films fall into both categories. ;)
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown
Yeah, nothing says fun to me quite like having some dude and his slut gf talk about how drunk they got the night before halfway through the feature. 9 bucks a ticket is good fun, too.
Well, duh!
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Ethically, I'm so confused...
> your advertising it heavily
My advertising it heavily what?
Dear god, you have a sense of perspective, context and history. What the hell are you doing in the movie business?
Also, what's the real emergency code for sneaking a dead hooker out of Ben Affleck's trailer?
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