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MPAA Blames BitTorrent for Star Wars Distribution
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the MPAA's press release (.doc) blaming the BitTorrent protocol for the leak of Episode III. MPAA President and CEO Dan Glickman: 'There is no better example of how theft dims the magic of the movies for everyone than this report today regarding BitTorrent providing users with illegal copies of Revenge of the Sith. The unfortunate fact is this type of theft happens on a regular basis on peer to peer networks all over the world.'"
that dimmed the magic of this movie was George Lucas.
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It's a shame that this has happened, and that Star Wars Ep. III is hardly taking in any money as a result.
I blame internet. Lets sue Al Gore!
"Better to be vulgar than non-existent" -Bev Henson
I got it from Usenet, you insensitive clods!
and there was I thinking it was the crummy script and wooden acting that was 'destroying the magic'...damn you bittorrent!!!!
Thanks to the MPAA announcing the availibility of Episode III on bittorrent, I know now which client to start and search for it. Great service.
Georges
Atari rules... ermm... ruled.
I, for one, watch only stolen movies. It makes me feel cool, like if I had a big penis.
Of course, BitTorrent is responsible. The author of this un-American software should be arrested immediately and pay a fine of 400 million to the starving author of Star Wars.
Episode 3 is breaking records for how much money it's already made. Boy, I can really see how BitTorrent is just screwing the movie industry. Just how it screwed Battlestar Galactica on Sci-Fi. What a bunch of whining chumps.
Yes, Bittorrent was at fault, and the economic impact was so huge, that Star Wars didn't make a single penny this weekend. And George Lucas is broke! John Williams is selling pencils on the street corner! Hayden Christensen... well let's not even talk about what he's doing to make ends meet!
Thanks a lot Bittorrent, you killed Star Wars!
Revenge of the Sith only had a record $50 million opening day. This is a travesty! I will personally donate my yearly salary of $40,000 to George Lucas to help keep him from starving.
I can't get that .doc file. Can somebody post a torrent?
We need a law that makes it a federal felony to "Dim the magic of the movies, with intention or accidentally, through the distribution of any electronic media."
No longer will Ebert be able to safely sit there sending salvo after salvo at the movie industry, safe behind ill-concieved first ammendment rights!
Please, help save the magic of the movies from dimming, think of the children!
Plus, it's not BitTorrent's fault that the movie was released. The fault of the release is due to TCP/IP itself! I think we should lobby the government to ban the TCP/IP protocol, which makes all copyright infringement possible.
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When I heard about this BitTorrent program delivering non-released movies, new top-40 albums and great warez software I (being cheap and lazy) immediatelly downloaded, installed and opened it. Then I waited for the goods to start pouring into my disk. So far nothing has happened. Does anyone knows what I am doing wrong?
you are right: what kind of news item this is? Where is the torrent link?
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well, no sith sherlock!
NO Sith? I think you got the wrong movie.
If there was no bittorrent, they wouldn't have the means to distribute it!!!
Windows existed long before Bit Torrent, and is, by an astronomically vast margin, the preferred platform upon which to run Bit Torrent, mostly because it makes it so easy for anyone to use by the most simple point and click graphical interface, in essence "facilitating" the casual user to be able to steal movies, therefore the theft of all these movies is *clearly* Mircosoft's fault more than anyone else's because they have made it so easy to break the law. Windows doesn't even really need Bit Torrent at all to be used to pirate these movies, since it has built-in filesharing already that makes it trivially easy to host files on the Internet for free download by whoever viosits that computer over a network.
For heaven sakes people! Lucas was only able to make $50 million on Thursday! HE HAS CHILDREN TO FEED
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You misspelled "younglings"
You can't take the sky from me...
Of course, BitTorrent is responsible.
No, no, no! Not only that! I got mine via FTP, so FTP is responsible as well! And I found the FTP-link by the web, so I guess that makes HTTP responsible as well.
Oh.. and they all use IP. Which would make IP the one mainly responsible for the IP-theft! Yup. Sounds like double-A logic to me.
Not Buzzword 2.0 compliant. Please speak english.
Yes I too want to go out and spend $15,000 or more on equipment so I can save the $10 or less for a ticket to the movie theater.
Quote of the hour:
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
You forgot that BitTorrent hides alien contact in Area 51, and that it also stole WMD's from Iraq just as we were going in. Also, it made me sterile just by watching a downloaded movie.
Sera
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That simile is flawed. Handguns have many uses, such as easing server bandwidth requirements and doing a lot to spread open source software, while bittorrent was designed mainly for use in non-military situations to kill human beings. It's fairly obvious that for practical purposes, bittorrent should be carefully controlled.
Wait, I think I mixed things up a little there, didn't I.
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The law-suits or the Boeing-suits?
Where is this Bit Torrent person and when is he handing out free movies again?
Also I heard that the RIAA is suing FTP for the lack luster sales of Ashlee Simpson's CD.
Let's ban George Lucas, since he has done more than anybody else to dim the magic of the movies. Maybe Paulie Shore comes close, but he's not around anymore.
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No no, you've got it all wrong... BitTorrent is just the psudonym for Osama - he's really a clever AI hiding out on the net (why else do you think St. George of Bush hasn't managed to catch him yet?)
Programming is an Art. I am an Artist. Does that mean I get to wear a daft hat?
But if you can't make it to the theater you might find the torrent. If that's too slow (it will be), it's in a newsgroup in about 1500 RARs with every number .rxx divisible by 13 missing. If you can't get it there after the reposts next week, your buddy in college has it. If he's too drunk to drag the massive ZIP of a RAR of an ARJ of an LZH of an ISO to your IM screen name on his buddy list, that guy at work can run by the bootlegger's and pick it up already for $5. There are lots of illegal avenues you can travel to find the film. As for me, I'll go see it in the theater. Their surround sound setup is a little better than mine and I can leave my trash on the floor there.
It's a perfect time for being wasted.
A perfect time to watch the stars.
- Burden Brothers, "Beautiful Night"
I'm sure its not BitTorrents fault. Its Intels fault. If there were no computers there would be no piracy...
Actually its probably the MPAAs fault, if there were no movies there'd be no piracy...
"It's like blaming Sony for flipping through the channels, and the batteries dieing just as Barney comes on."
Oh god! I feel your pain on that one...
B.
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Fortunetly, the magic was restored eleven fold by granting R2D2 the ability to fly, emit oil slicks, light said oil slicks on fire, catch communicators thrown at him, jump 3 feet out of space ships, and leave audiances baffled as to why these superpowers aren't used in the next movies.
And he makes fries in seconds!
SAILING MISHAP
They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
Exactly! Finally, someone who gets it!
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The irony in a P2P network/protocal suing the MPAA may well cause the American legal system to implode.
Every time you use BitTorrent, God kills a kitten.
...It turned me into a Newt!
Artist will always make art.
MPAA Tech: They get the movies from usenet!
MPAA Suit: We know they use the net you idiot
MPAA Tech: I mean...you know usenet
MPAA Suit: Yes yes...they use the evil p2p networks on the net.
MPAA Tech: NO DAMMIT, USENET!!!!
MPAA Suit: STFU peon you are fired!
MPAA Tech: Whatever
SHHHHH!!!!
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
Every time you leech from BitTorrent, God kills a kitten.
You, "sir", are a "fucking" "commie" "hypocrate", "who" should be "taken" "out" and "shot". It's "people" like "you" who are "causing" this "problem" in the "first" "place". Of "course", it doesn't "help" that the "people" who "run" the "MPAA" are one "step" lower than "pond" "scum" on the "evolutionary" "scale".
"Its a _really_ poor craftsman who blames someone else's tool!"
Prostitutes excepted. Hey, it can happen to anyone...
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Sue the internet!
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