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MPAA to Sue BitTorrent Tracker Servers
Mirkon writes "The Register and Reuters report that the Motion Picture Association of America is planning to begin a legal assault on websites that host BitTorrent trackers for copyrighted movie files. An announcement is supposed to be made by the MPAA President/CEO today, along with help from CEO of private P2P network developer Red Swoosh, and the CEO of BayTSP, 'which offers file-branding and -tracking applications.' Not that they have any vested interests in this of course. Though the articles take care to mention that this action is not against standard users, how long is it until BitTorrent itself is targeted?" Apropos of nothing, I saw a movie in the theaters a few days ago. At the official start time, the lights dimmed. Then there were 14 minutes of commercials (Pepsi, hair mousse, cologne, etc.) followed by 13 minutes of movie trailers (which are also advertising), followed by a few minutes of junk, followed by a 100-minute movie. I can't imagine why people would want to download movies when they have that great theater experience to compare against.
Please make sure you do not link to Bittorrent sites here on Slashdot, such as suprnova.org. If you do, then Slashdot will become liable as they'll be linking to a site that links to copyright materials.
Also, if that happens, please make sure you remove all links to Slashdot, or links to sites that link to Slashdot, as you'll also be liable.
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Wow--heavy, insightful stuff. Looks like somebody is gunning for a Pulitzer!
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"Apropos of nothing..."
True, that is apropos of nothing. Myself, (apropos of nothing, of course) I like mittens.
MPAA: What happen ? ....
Minion: Somebody set up us the Tracker.
Minion: We get packet.
MPAA: What !
Minion: Packet Sniffer turn on.
MPAA: It's you !!
Torrents: How are you gentlemen !!
Torrents: All your MOVIES are belong to us.
Torrents: You are on the way to destruction.
MPAA: What you say !!
Torrents: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Torrents: Ha Ha Ha Ha
MPAA: Sue every Tracker!!
MPAA: You know what you doing.
MPAA: For great PROFIT.
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Downloaded it 2 weeks ago from suprnova
If that ad really bugs you, just download a cam version of the movie...they usually edit out the commercials.
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The article was about downloading movies, not stealing them. You should read more closely.
I normally shout out during the "dont steal movies" commercials "WHY ARE YOU TELLING US?! WE ALREADY PAID!!!"
It usually gets some chuckles from the audience.
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and a good amount of traffic to it, could send a powerful message...
Just think of all the revenue you could generate with popup ads on the site.
It's fast too! I let my buddy borrow a wallet of 50 cds of The Simpsons... transaction only took about a second... 35GB/s!!!
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I find that taking a flash photograph of the "cameras of any kind are banned in this theatre" notice usually gets some laughs.
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When I was at the Return of the King midnight showing:
Poor underpaid stagehand: Please don't download movies off the internet Someone in audience: Did anyone get that on video? Someone else: Yeah, I'll put it on Kazaa when I get home.
That was a rowdy crowd that night.
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Somebody should spin off bittorrent, make some slight changes to it and call it "I'm a whore and so are you". Then when the MPAA goes and talks to the news media and get interviewed they will say "Yes, Mr. Oreily we here at the MPAA are taking a tough stand against 'I'm a whore and so are you'". The hilarity will make the whole fear of "cookies" debacle seem barely amusing.
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Those commercials always make me feel guilty........So guilty in fact that I put my camcorder away.........for a few minutes.
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Thank you indeed for letting us know of such a fabulous website.Shutting down this site should be next to impossible.MPAA would first have to establish an independent state of palestine.
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...but a nice juicy FUCK YOU for buying an ad to place in front of a movie I just paid damn near $20 to see with a woman I will be hopefully having sex with later that evening.
See, thats was the point of the movies back in the day. I wanted to see a story without having to be interrupted at any point of the evening to be told how to releive my inflamed ass or how buying a new car will get me hand jobs from hot women.
I fucking hate going to movie theatres now.
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shit.
s'wut i sed.
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"and i didn't take anyone else's copy of any movies, i made my own. "
Insert amateur porn joke here.