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New Round of Lawsuits in Preparation for Oscars
An anonymous reader wrote to mention CNNMoney's coverage of the latest round of MPAA lawsuits targeting end users. From the article: "The civil suits against unnamed "John Doe" defendants seek up to $150,000 per downloaded digital file and come as the film industry prepares for its annual Oscar telecast in Hollywood where awards for top films and stars are given out."
Stop thinking rationally!
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This is of course the MPAA we are talking about... you know, the folks slightly more sane than the RIAA, but still both less crazy than your average
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"The studios claim they lose $35 billion worldwide in annual revenues from sales of illegally copied movies on video and DVD formats in street bazaars and black markets."
...but these new suits were against end users, or people who actually downloaded the films.
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And we all know those are the same people. Sheesh.
Do you have a pdf of a good law book around? Send me a link please!
fined $150 000 for having downloaded an Uwe Boll movie...
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That would suck !!
My god, that's completely insane. Why not just charge twenty bucks plus court costs? That'd prove far more agreeable to the users and pirates - it's the same price as a DVD, and you can claim Fair Use with what you do with it.
... like only $100,000 a year?" Would be somewhat appropriate for this conversation ...
We're talking about people whose heads are completely in the clouds and don't have the slightest bit of common sense or are in touch with the common person. They don't get it.
Who was the guy who said "I really feel sorry for the working stiff types. What do they make
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something like that. they need to save up for the $500k per occurrence new FCC fines. and with Chris Rock hosting, they're probably trying to save up a few $20-40 million
vodka, straight up, thank you!
"The next contestants may not be very well known to the general public, but they will be after our lawyers finish tearing them apart. Ladies and gentlemen, here they are:"
Lights out.
"John Doe One. This 15 year old criminal downloaded a crappy hand-filmed DIVX version of Spiderman 2. He agreed to sell one kidney and both his eyeballs to pay the 150k fee."
"John Doe Two. A medschool student (still), the IP of his machine was found in the Lokitorrent logs. That's proof enough that he is guilty. He will spend the next 106 years making Texas license plates to cover for the fine."
"John Doe Three. 35 years old, still living with his mom, has a valid Slashdot account. Since all Slashdot users are geeks and all geeks download illegal contents from P2P networks, he's guilty as hell. Sentenced to 25 years in the Russian unranium mines."
"John Doe Four. Farmer, age 42. His computer contained the infamous BitTorrent software. He claims his 12 year old nephew has installed it without his knowledge. Both are in custody at a high security location, awaiting the decision of the MPAA board."
"John Doe Five. He posted a nasty anonymous comment about MPAA on a well-known forum dedicated to freedom of speech. Why anonymous, John? Do you have something to hide? Thankfully his ISP has been forced to disclose his IP under the Patriot Act, and now the 28 year old security consultant faces the death sentence under accusations of theft, identity stealing (Mr. A. Coward was appaled to find out you used his name, buster!) and digital terrorism."
Lights in. Humorous comment from the host.
"And the loser is...."
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They must use the money collected from lawsuits to pay for those trophies!!
If they wouldn't use 850 K gold or silver, records wouldn't cost as much, ya think?
And renting the $25 mil necklaces has to come from some poor chap who downloaded at the wrong time, right?
"Okay guys, the awards are coming up and we need some PR exposure...who we gonna sue?"
I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. - Q
For the RIAA, their law team could easily cost 150k for a single trial, so it really could be 20 bucks plus court costs, unfortunately!
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the MPAA filed lawsuits against computer networks utilizing a software technology known as BitTorrent
the computer network in question being, of course, the internet.
In its defence, the internet has issued the following statement; I r pwnd ur moviez, 4 I R 2 l33t 4 j00. Microsoft is currently working on a translation.
"Are there any capitalists who aren't scumbags, or is a large business automatically evil?"
/. the answer that question is "YES".
/. the most likely answer to a multiple-choice question is indeed "YES", and it's nothing to do with political bias ;)
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