Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads

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Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @04:14AM from the and-they-make-such-cute-movies dept.

MaximusTheGreat writes "While Hollywood tries to debate how to tackle P2P movie downloads, Bollywood the world's largest film industry has decided to embrace it. This could usher in a new era of legal movie downloads like iTunes for music, as Bollywood, the Indian film industry produces 1000 movies a year and outstrips hollywood by almost 3:1. Theaters worldwide sold some 3.6 billion tickets to Bollywood films last year, compared with Hollywood's 2.6 billion. In revenue terms Bollywood is already larger than the British, Hong Kong, Japanese and Italian movie industry and is growing at a very fast rate."

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No kidding, Spanky. by grub · 2003-12-23 04:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Hollywood has been slow to embrace downloads

Understatement of the year.

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1. Re:No kidding, Spanky. by JamesP · 2003-12-23 04:53 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Hollywood has been slow to embrace downloads
  
  Understatement of the year.
  
  Maybe ther's still using dial-up...
  
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Bollywood movies are terrible, though. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-23 04:15 · Score: 4, Funny

A good analog would be if iTunes only offered JPop.
1. Re:Bollywood movies are terrible, though. by Frymaster · 2003-12-23 04:56 · Score: 4, Funny
  Think of the most predictable dross about a boy and a girl you can, add in a load of songs
  and hollywood doesn't make trash? man, i've got three words for you:
  
  beverely
  
  hills
  
  ninja
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C'mon you KNOW you were thinking of this.... by i_want_you_to_throw_ · 2003-12-23 04:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Hooray for Bollywood
That screwy, ballyhooey Bollywood!
Where any office boy
Or young mechanic
can be a panic
With just a good-looking pan
And any barmaid
Can be a star maid
If she dances with or without a fan
Hooray for Bollywood!
Where you're terrific
if you're even good!
Where anyone at all from Shirley Temple
to Aimee Semple
is equally understood
Come on and try your luck
You could be Donald Duck
Hooray for Bollywood!

Hooray for Bollywood!
That phony, super Coney, Bollywood
They come from Chilicothes and Padukahs
with their bazookas
To see their names up in lights
All armed with photos
From local rotos
With their hair in curlers
and legs in tights
Hooray for Bollywood!
You may be homely in your neighborhood.
Still, if you think that you can be an actor
See Mister Factor
He'd make a monkey look good!
Within a half an hour
You'll look like Tyrone Power
Hooray for Bollywood!
1. Re:C'mon you KNOW you were thinking of this.... by AKnightCowboy · 2003-12-23 04:34 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You're lucky this probably falls under the parody clause (for now) of the copyright laws or you'd have some RIAA lawyer on your ass right about now.
2. Re:C'mon you KNOW you were thinking of this.... by fair_n_hite_451 · 2003-12-23 05:24 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Yeah, I was THINKING it ... but my dignity is still intact. ;-)
  
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  "I wish my grass was emo so it could cut itself."
But... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-23 04:16 · Score: 4, Funny

at least SOME films that come out of Hollywood show traces of originality and thinking outside the box. Every Bollywood film i've seen on TV could've been created with some sort of VB app.
Outsourcing by IPFreely · 2003-12-23 04:19 · Score: 4, Funny

It looks like the tech industry isn't the only one being outsourced to India.

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Bollywood by kjba · 2003-12-23 04:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Sounds like this Bollywood thing bas a buge and beroic future abead.
*Sigh* by pHatidic · 2003-12-23 04:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads

Just when we thought the typos and lack of editing on slashdot couldn't get any worse, we get 'Bollywood' in the title. This is a sad, sad day for slashdot. (Note I did not RTFBlurb before posting.)
Re:India by mrmaster · 2003-12-23 04:20 · Score: 1, Funny

I don't know about being like the United States and all but I do say they have a great creative imagination over there. Bollywood is such an original name!
Obg. Simpson Reference by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-23 04:21 · Score: 1, Funny

Troy: Apu living with the Simpsons?! It happened. And here's a scene you didn't see.
Apu: I'm hoping you enjoy this movie. It made every Indian critic's top 400 list.
Woman: [singing] Love love love love love! I'm in love with lovely Johnny.
[an Indian man breaks through a window and curses in Hindi at three sitting men]
[they all start dancing]
Bart: This movie you rented sucks.
Homer: No it doesn't, it's funny! Their clothes are different from my clothes. [laughs] Look at what they're wearing! [laughs more]
Now... by Fizzlewhiff · 2003-12-23 04:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Only if I was fluent in Hindi and enjoyed musicals.

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Re:India by sznupi · 2003-12-23 04:27 · Score: 2, Funny

Wait, are you trying to say that a prerequisite for superpower is being once ruled by UK? ;]

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Re:my roommate in college by .!.+(0.o)+.!. · 2003-12-23 04:29 · Score: 5, Funny

every bollywood movie has the same plot
you mean like Hollywood movies?
How to cut costs in Bollywood? by Bowie+J.+Poag · 2003-12-23 04:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Maybe they should outsource to America.

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Things You Would Never Know Without Indian Movies by tcak · 2003-12-23 04:33 · Score: 5, Funny
I might be off-topic, but what the hell....
Introducing Things You Would Never Know Without Watching Bollywood Movies
1. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to cleanse his wounds.
2. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.
3. The hero cannot fall in love with the heroine (vice versa) unless they first perform a dance number in the rain.
4. Once applied, make-up is permanent, in rain or in any other situation.
5. Village girls who live among cows and sheep have perfect skin and teeth.
6. A large group of goondoos can be shooting at the hero, but he will never be hit, unless of course he is attempting to save the heroine.
7. A large group of goondoos can be shooting at the hero with machine guns, yet they will always miss. Every shot the hero takes from his small revolver will knock down at least ten opponents in a line.
8. If you decide to start dancing in a field, everyone you bump into will know all the steps, and will be wearing coordinated outfits.
9. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts-your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
10. A heroine will have time to change outfits several times in one song, however short.
11. In the final scene, the hero will discover that the bad guy who he is up against is actually his brother and the maid who looked after him is his mother and the chief inspector is his father and the Judge is his uncle and so forth.
12. 2 people can be dancing in the desert and out of nowhere, 100 people will appear from god-knows-where and joins them in the dance.
Re:India by TheMidget · 2003-12-23 04:35 · Score: 4, Funny

India is truley a rising nation, it remind s me very much of the United States.
I think in another 50 years that India will be beside the US in terms of being a world superpower. In a hundred it will be the most powerful nation in the world.
And in 200, it will conquer Texas for its petrol... Yeah!
Re:India by BigGerman · 2003-12-23 05:02 · Score: 2, Funny

>>How is this different from China?
India is a (troubled) democracy. The reason they shoot 1000 movies a year is because of primordial capitalist soup breeding there.
In China you would have just one, government-approved, red-flag-covered-boobies feature ;-)
Re:Things You Would Never Know Without ^H^H^GREASE by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-23 05:09 · Score: 1, Funny

# The hero cannot fall in love with the heroine (vice versa) unless they first perform a dance number in the rain.
# Once applied, make-up is permanent, in rain or in any other situation.
If you decide to start dancing in a field, everyone you bump into will know all the steps, and will be wearing coordinated outfits.
# A heroine will have time to change outfits several times in one song, however short.

You might remember this description from the film GREASE featuring John "Go Clear" Travolta and Olivia Neutron Bomb!
Re:Bad plots by cmstremi · 2003-12-23 05:10 · Score: 2, Funny

Great point. That's why our (Western) porn industry is having such a hard time. Same old plots.

1. Several 35-year-old cheerleaders enter the room
2. They make out
3. Someone pulls out a gigantic purple dildo
4. Bwah-chicha-ba-wah...
Re:Here Here! by Keighvin · 2003-12-23 06:14 · Score: 2, Funny

No, not a poll as in agree/disagree, a Slashpoll.

The most greivously understated comment of the year is:

a) Hollywood has been slow to embrace downloads
b) You own SCo $699.
c) ... (something about Windows Security) ...
d) ... (something about the RIAA) ...
e) Profit!
f) ... (something about CoyboyNeal) ...

etc.

I've attempted the comment, I'm afraid someone else will have to supply the humor.

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Re:India by valkraider · 2003-12-23 07:40 · Score: 2, Funny

A "War on Terror" is like a "War on Jealousy".

"Having a war on terror - its like having a war on jealousy... At no point in time EVER are we going to go: 'Phew! Got em all! Everybody loves us again'."
-David Cross
Re:it was a joke by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-23 11:14 · Score: 1, Funny

Let's face it, people have sex

You're new here, right?