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Movie Industry to sue File Sharers
Wack Valenti writes "SiliconValley.com reports that the motion picture industry, taking a cue from the RIAA, is planning to file copyright infringement lawsuits against file sharers it says are illegally distributing movies online. The first suits could be filed as early as tomorrow."
A Democrat President, with bi-partisan congressional support, passed both the DMCA and the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act.
The Ninth Circuit is considered the most liberal in the country, and yet it has been very friendly to the members of the RIAA and MPAA.
Poor government knows no party.
Rent a DVD from blockbuster
Play it with VideoLan client
Open up dvd smartripper
Rip the DVD
Run the ripped files through DVD2One
Burn to a DVD
Click here or a puppy gets stomped!
Usenet can kind of be a pain to search sometimes, and a lot of it is spread out on a lot of different newsgroups. There's also probably even more viruses and false stuff on usenet than P2P networks(atleast Ed2k).
Every time you post an article on Slashdot, I kill a server. Think of the servers!
Right, except you can buy access for $20 off their website. If you think it's "safe" you're naive. As much as I'd like i2hub to be a wonderful thing, it's gotten too big for it's own good in it's current form.
Unless you have been living on Mars for the last eight months, you might have noticed that George Bush is not the darling of the entertainment industry. If you look at the top contributers not one of them are from the entertainment industry. One cannot say the same for John Kerry. The top contributors include Time Warner and Viacom. If you look at the RNC ($2.8M) and the DNC ($5.7M) who do you think is more beholden to the entertainment industry?
I think it is obvious that the actions of the entertainment industry is independent of the occupant of the White House. The Democrats are as friendly to corporations as the Republicans. If you believe otherwise, then you have tasted to much of the Kool-Aid. I hope you voted Nader, because both the Democrats and the Republicans are not for you.
If everyone takes your stance it will cure the problem. No films will be made or records released. The good movie and record fairies don't make them. People and money make them. If there's no money to pay the people to work on them, let alone the expenses involved, there won't be any made. All those people will simply find other careers. In the meantime you'll be without those forms of entertainment.
heh, yeah I received one too for sharing an episode on bittorrent! ;)
;)
What I find absurd, it's that I do not live in the US and Stargate Atlantis was not (and is not) playing here yet!
I already received another bot letter from Paramount Pictures for sharing a movie of them on edonkey a year ago.
I did not stop using p2ps, I just use them in a smarter way.
Only bittorent, they can't browse what you share, just see it if you download/upload it from/to them, and I use mldonkey with "Guarding for mldonkey", which is an IP blocker to stop rogue connections.
Like Peer Guardian on Windows.
No email from a firm that check for movies yet!
Let's make this clear:
The Democrats created the DMCA.
It's traditional to cite such things. It often makes for a stronger argument, assuming the facts support it.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Public Law 105-304) was sponsored in the House by a Howard Coble, a republican (NC-6th). In the senate, it was sponsored by Orrin Hatch, also a Republican (UT).
The Democrats extended copyrights.
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (Public Law 105-298) was also sponsored by Orrin Hatch. It was named for a Republican congressman. In the House, it was sponsored by, (get this!) Howard Coble of North Carolina.
Yeah yeah, some Democrats are listed as cosponsors. And both bills did garner the votes of both Republicans and Democrats. Details, details.
And for the millionth time, I know that. And it is also totally irrelevant to my argument.
The GPL is a license that describes your rights to use and copy the material it is on.
A copyright also is a license that describes your rights to use and copy the material it is on.
If we want others to respect the GPL, then we must also respect their copyrights...even if we don't agree with them. The laws that we use to argue that the GPL is valid are the very same laws that make copyright valid. If copyright is invalid, then the GPL is equally invalid.
If we don't like current copyright law, then we need to work to change it. But at no time do we have the right to ignore it because we don't like it. And the fact that copyright and GPL are 180 degrees opposed does ot change that.
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
Lawrence Lessig wrote about that in his book Free Culture (freely available online). He talks about it on Page 67 and shows his references on Page 317
Okay, so a philosopher, a philologist, and a philatelist walk into a bar...
The answer is simple. Only share porn. They don't seem to mind at all.
I think I've heard one or two complaints from the porn industry, but over all I think you are completely correct.
And I think I know why.
Royalties. There are none.
Very few, if any, porn contracts include royalties for anyone - performers, cameramen, "director," etc. They all get paid as a work for hire. The publisher then makes a run of DVDs and sells most, if not all, in one big transaction to a distributor who parcels them out to the buying public through various parallel channels.
By the time the end product has made it into a large enough number of hands so as to inevitably end up shared on the net, everybody has already been paid.
I think that bears repeating - by the time any widespreading "pirating" can get into gear, everybody involved has been compensated for their work, so they really don't care.
I think that if the music and mainstream movie industries could come up with a similar business model, the entire problem of "piracy" would disappear overnight, essentialy redefined out of existence.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
If you need a good review before seeing a movie, try www.theonionavclub.com -- they're critical of everything, so if they give it a good review, it's almost sure to be worth your time.
Heard of the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act?
-Matt
Duke '05
A monopoly *does* exist when the barriers to entry are high. Your post seems to imply that it would be no more difficult to get a movie into your own cinema than to open up an ice-cream parlour?
C'mon
You guys all missed the point of the parent's post. Look at the slashdot ID numbers! They are all close together. It's an astroturf campaign, that's all.