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Interview with MPAA Chief Dan Glickman
farmerbuzz writes "USAToday has an interview with Dan Glickman (Jack Valenti's replacement as the CEO of the MPAA) where he announces that the MPAA will begin suing movie downloaders. An interesting point brought up in the interview: 'At the time the RIAA announced its lawsuits, it said music sales had fallen 25% over a three-year period. The MPAA is in a much different situation. Box office receipts aren't down at all -- 2003's figures were $9.5 billion, the second biggest in history.'"
Stealing movies is not a crime. It's a right. Don't try to take away my right to commit crime!
Sue this MPAA!
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Off-topic, really, but the original headline to this story (as seen by subscribers) was "MPAA to Begin Suing Movie Downloaders". That looked like a dupe from Wednesday's story, Movie Industry to sue File Sharers. I'm sure I wasn't the only subscriber to submit a "Dupe!" warning, and the headline got changed.
Y'all who enjoy lambasting the editors over dupe articles, chew on this for a while, alright?
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Michael, you newb! Everyone knows not to get their movies from Kazaa!
Right
I have seen the movie Mr.3000 and would say that Dan Glickman's son should be happy that people are buying the DVD because anybody in the right state of mind wouldn't. It is a totally worthless movie. If thats whats lost revenue they will never be able to cut it down unless they improve the quality of the films being made.
My sister wås bitten by å møøse ønce...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
"A: My son Jon was executive producer of the recent film Mr. 3000. A few days after the film was released, a member of my staff found it being sold as a DVD just a few blocks from our offices. I called my son to give him the bad news, and he told me this is happening to all the current films. And then he said, "And what are you going to do about it, Dad?" Translation: Awww I'm rich beyond silly. I was the executive producer for a shitty movie that nobdoy wanted to see. Daddy make the bad pirates go away.
Q: To follow up on that, piracy has even negatively affected your family, correct?
:)
A: My son Jon was executive producer of the recent film Mr. 3000. A few days after the film was released, a member of my staff found it being sold as a DVD just a few blocks from our offices. I called my son to give him the bad news, and he told me this is happening to all the current films. And then he said, "And what are you going to do about it, Dad?"
Why didn't dad do something about it being such a crappy movie? I wasted a whole day's worth of bandwidth for it.
"We know there are losses. We believe we're losing $3.5 billion yearly."
Uhhh....Ahem.
Mr. Glickman, I spend about $1200 a year going to the movies. I **KNOW** that two thirds of those movies were absolute crap and in NO WAY deserving of 90 YEARS worth of copyright protection.
You just keep up this sue-happy asshat behaviour and you can count on a grass roots ground swell that'll have the congress winding that ol' copyright clock back to 17 years where it belongs!
YOU are not in charge of things around here.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
I'm pretty certain the air isn't where Mr. Glickman pulled that number from.
I'm going to state this up front. I'm kind of an asshole when it comes to things like this. But please, hear me out and I think you might find we have more in common than you believe.
The biggest problem with videos of movies that come out on theater is that they are in Cam quality on IRC. I download these religiously. I don't think I have a god-given right to them, but I download them like no tomorrow. If caught, oh well, it was fun while it lasted and the MPAA can enjoy suing me. They can "make an example" out of me. If someone can get away with using lawsuits to ask for outrageous amounts of money in damages, then I don't particularly see a future for myself, anyway. All I see right now is dodging one litigous situation after another.
Anyway, I steal because I just can't justify spending 7 dollars per ticket plus five dollars popcorn and pop for myself and a date. And yet, I'm suppose to court all these lovely young ladies that are gold diggers too. (Told you I was an asshole, stay with me, here)
I went to see Return of the King, and I think that will be the last one. Forget the crappy quality of the Cam versions, I enjoy the other little things, like:
1) Popcorn and pop cost whatever I spend on them at the grocery store. Usually about 50 cents a can and package.
2) I have as much room as I want, either on the couch or leaning back in a computer chair. I can even change my clothes while watching the movie.
3) I can pause the movie when I have to take a crap. Or to go jerk off.
4) I can answer my cell phone and say, "What's up?" without being booed and hissed to the foyer. Same goes with farting, people won't get offended and tell those pimply-faced teens to ask me to leave.
No, I don't answer my cell phone during movies (I have it on vibrate, I'm not a total asshole) but it sure is nice to hit pause and then answer it right there. Can you imagine if they gave people remotes so they could pause the movie while they used the crapper, got a drink of water, made out, or breast-fed the baby? Return of the King would have been 3 days long, not 3 hours.
For what it is worth, it's not the MPAA that is the problem, it's the damned theaters. They have to start introducing some things that I can't purchase for my home and use that to try to get me to go there.
Here's some ideas:
1) Private rooms or twenty-person rooms with a large screen TV instead of a projector.
2) A table I can put food, Goobers, or a UMP on.
3) Theater massages - This can include vibrating chairs
4) Headphones. These serve two purposes: first, I don't have to hear the little brats screaming/whining/crying; and second, the abducter that is stealing the screaming/whining/crying brat will actually get away before the mom notices her kid is gone, so the kid will grow up in a god-fearing Mormon/Candian home, far away from me.
5) Naked chicks. The theater girls aren't always that ugly and fat, why not pay the good ones more to give us a brief synopsis on the movie while in the nude?
6) Hell, maybe if they even started providing gas for my big olde SUV I'd start going.
Yeah and every movie I watch on regular TV means I will never purchase the DVD and every song I listen to on the radio means I will never purchase the CD and every book I read in the library is one less book I will buy.
I think it's only a matter of time before McDonalds starts suing people who distribute recipes online.
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
Stop saying people are "stealing" when they copy movies and other stuff against the law, when they are obviously committing an act of murder against the rights of the owners, and murder of creativity.
Copyright infringement is murder, and should be penalized accordingly!
with the money you earned, you can purchase some DVD's, rip 'em and give some Divx to your friend the pirate.
Yee haw!!! Creating your own lawsuits er... market.
Isn't that sweet? O:)
I wonder if they also include lost sales due to people boycotting them because they hate litigious bastards.
Personally, I've just extended my RIAA and BSA boycott to include the MPAA, and unlike music, which I never bought before, I used to occasionally go to the movies (last one I saw was Farenheit 9/11). And Hades will freeze over before I buy any MPAA media.
If the movies are so bad why are people stealing them ...?
... and the portions are tiny!"
"The food here is terrible
"The good reader is a rarer swan than the good writer."
Careful, now. Not too close.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
(Runner up is the kid who steals a chocolate bar then says "But dad, you steal cable")
If only they went a tad farther...
Angered father retorts.
"Now I steal your life!!!" *STAB* *STAB* *STAB*
Announcer: "Obviously stealing cable leads to lesser offenses, buy cable or we'll take your candy bar!"
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
You just made my day. :-)
hahahah!
I can just see it now:
Dear Sir/Madam:
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has determined that the connection listed below, which appears to be using an Internet account under your control, is using a eDonkey network to offer unlicensed copies or may be engaged in other authorized activities relating to copyrighted computer programs published by BSA's member companies.
While no judicial determination of infringement has been made, we have a good faith belief that this activity violates copyright laws and probably your terms of service as well. In contacting you in this manner, we seek your prompt assistance in having the content removed or activity discontinued. Voluntary, appropriate action can both render legal measures unnecessary and serve a positive educational purpose.
Content being offered:
Filename: Weapons of Ass Destruction.avi
-- I think the porn industry makes enough money without hastling people who decide to 'pirate' their material.
I'm condemning the people for voting at 51% for someone who's clearly daddy's boy. George Bush, along with all of the others in power right now, is there *only* because of his family ties into money and oil. He did not earn anything on his own. And it seems the american people attribute no value to that anymore: earning something.
Class structure in "the land of the free" (make me laugh) is becoming more and more similar to the aristocracy that was in rule during the Russian Tzar era, or during Louis XIV.
And then, there are idiots like you!.. like fucking YOU! who shit on me for expressing this point of view. Why? Because your IQ is only high enough to shit on your own yard... you have absolutely no intellectual skills to actually pierce through the status-quo. You answer me robotically on a slashdot thread after sensing my post had all the tell tale signs of being a flame.
You are the idiot. The sad thing is how oblivious to it you are.
I thank my god every day that I don't live in that fucked up country of yours, where people like you roam thinking you and your superior intelligence is the reason why the world is civilized.