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.

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Ok, Michael

[the_mad_poster]

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, of course), followed by a few minutes of junk, followed by a 100-minute movie.

Smooth, Sims. Funny how my last post in one of your stories got blasted to -1, Offtopic, but you have no qualms about starting out a tirade by admitting that it has nothing to do with anything relating to the story you attached it to. I wonder, is my speaking specifically to your admittedly offtopic rant offtopic?

Not only that, you forgot the most important part of your story: knowing that all of the crap you mentioned is standard practice, you were stupid enough to PAY them for the privilege to abuse you like that .

30 minutes of pre-movie crap...

[Pitr]

Look on the bright side, you can show up much later to movies and still make them on time. And with today's ticket prices, the theaters are almost never full, so you can still get a decent seat 30 minutes into the... er... commercials...

Seriously though, I can't believe it's gotten this bad. And nealy 15$ for a ticket. I've paid less for DVDs. I don't think piracy is the problem here...

Re:Guess You'd

[TellarHK]

Actually, I'd rather the movie industry started to do something about making the experience of going to the movies more fun than hassle. I've gone to damn few movies in theaters, simply because the seats suck, the theaters are always crowded, and morons (particularly in the theater in Methuen, MA) talk through the whole fucking movie all the time. No shit, last time I was there some kids started talking shit to me for simply looking behind me when I heard someone yelling.

Yes, they were black. I hate seeing stereotypes reinforced like that.

I'd also prefer them to run the commercials -before- the start time, as some chains do now. Trailers are one thing, but 15 minutes of "Let's all go to the lob-by!" type stuff is fucking ridiculous.