Online Groups Behind Bulk of Bootleg Films (& Games)

xasper8 writes "First it was the RIAA, now Hollywood is cracking the legal whip on online piracy." There's a better article about this in the recent issue of Wired that gets more in depth on this. Basically, good background on how file releases get made. <update> Yes, we did have Wired link yesterday as well. My bad.

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You Are An Idiot

[the_mad_poster]

And how, exactly, do you propose to keep any sort of reasonable industry afloat if said industry is required to make its products free? Are YOU willing to work for free, living off entirely random donations? I'll bet whoever employs you would LOVE IT if you were required by law to make your services free of charge and the only loophole they had to jump through was to figure out a way to balance the books such that it's impossible to show how your services contributed to the bottom line (a trivial task for professional number-crunchers, at best).

Idiots. It just never occurs to you pea-brains that regardless of who winds up producing content, whether it's a huge conglomerate like the *AAs or an individual artist, somebody at some point in time is going to have to pay for that production, and they're not going to want to do it for free. More importantly, it just never occurs to you that people don't WANT to see traveling musicians like in the 'olden days'. They want polished, professionally mangled music and movies which is why they keep buying the goddamn things.

Get the hell over yourselves you content-stealing jackasses. The majority of people would scream bloody murder if the professional content industries crumbled, and that's exactly what would happen if your communist "utopia" were allowed to happen.