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MPAA Blames BitTorrent for Star Wars Distribution
AI Playground writes "Slyck News reports on
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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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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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.
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...
Every time you use BitTorrent, God kills a kitten.