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King Kong vs. Movie Pirates

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the movie-sets-better-than-fort-knox dept.

Caoz writes "The New York Times is running an interesting article about movie piracy with Peter Jackson providing some comments. There a couple of comments that I thought were surprising. Like an executive admitting that file sharers are not the biggest threat to Hollywood. From the article: 'There is a very dark, black cloud in this game. It's not in the hands of kids who live next door to you; it's organized groups and organized crime.' Why are they suing bitorrent users then?"

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  1. Just a guess by AaronStJ · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "There is a very dark, black cloud in this game. It's not in the hands of kids who live next door to you; it's organized groups and organized crime." Why are they suing bitorrent users then?
    Umm... is it because bitorrent users don't arrange to have you killed?
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  2. Re:Bitorrent User Group by servognome · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "T-shirt inspector!" / *slap* / "No, really! I am a t-shirt inspector!"

    Of all the possible articles of clothing that you would want to have somebody remove so you can "inspect", and you chose T-shirt?!
    That's the equivalent of being "that guy" who during a riot loots a box of Rice Crispies, when everybody else is grabbing TV sets and stereos.
    You couldn't have chosen, bikini inspector?
    Well I guess this is /.

    :)

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  3. Why sue bit torrent users? by CubicleView · · Score: 0, Redundant
    A lot of comments have give likely reasons for suing the bit torrent users

    Among them

    1. (And this is a good one) Because they can, downloading copyrighted material is illegal.

    2. Its easier than going after other areas, dunno about this, I suspect all copyright infringers will eventually come under attack.

    I'd like to add a fairly obvious one myself

    3. They can probably make a shed load of money suing people.