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MPAA Files Lawsuits Targeting Major Torrent Sites
diverge_s writes "Slyck news reports on a new wave of lawsuits the MPAA has filed against major Bit Torrent search sites including: Torrentspy, Isohunt, Torrentbox, Niteshadow and Bthub. From the article: '"Website operators who abuse technology to facilitate infringements of copyrighted works by millions of people are not anonymous - they can and will be stopped," said John G. Malcolm, Executive Vice President and Director of Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations for the MPAA. "Disabling these powerful networks of illegal file distribution is a significant step in stemming the tide of piracy on the Internet."'"
Sorry if this sounds a little harsh, but would you folks just fuck off already? You make money hand over fist in the theaters and even moreso in DVD sales. It is clear that people still pay to see and own movies that they really like, even though they are available for free. Just because YOU would steal our money without providing us with a product if you thought you could get away with it doesn't mean that we'll do the same to you. Not that any of your actions really award you this sort of ethical treatment.
So in summary: please stop complaining. You make enough money already. Leave the torrent places alone, we like them for watching films we'd never pay to see or watching for a film we did pay to see second time before the DVD release.
Now I need to go finish watching ¥¥¥ Syriana DVDscr XViD DVDRip-MeeKRaB 2005.
flood? more like the trickle of piss that comes out of your pathetic dick after you've stood there for 5 minutes because your prostate has swollen to the size of a grape fruit you fuck.
for someone hating the global police state, you sound awfully like a communist. If you dont want to pay for the fruits of other peoples labours, you are either a thief or a communist.
Choose one.
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...weapons would have to be illegal. They have very few legitimate and a lot of illegal uses. And why is there no discussion about the legality of guns? Because of the NRA?
Should we prolly band together and yell loudly every time some studio tries to cut our first amendment right of free speech?
Quite seriously, there are so many contradictions. No matter how you twist and turn it, either make guns illegal or I have a very good arguement against pretty much any argument the copyright holders can field.
Copying helps terrorism? The right to bear arms does more so.
Copying makes money for terrorism? The black market for weapons does twice so (and, unlike copying, it's proven that it is).
Few legal uses of P2P? Don't make me start on guns.
And so on.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"Saying fuck you to the RIAA" (to help artists): Leeching music from BitTorrent, under the pretense that giving the artists would much prefer the $0.00 it gives them rather than the sum their record company pays them. : "Encoding music into a format ideal for cross-Internet distribution, zipping it up with covers and putting it on BitTorrent for hundreds of people I've never met and don't intend to"
"The RIAA cartel": "I do not know what the word 'cartel' means".
"Suing music fans": Suing people who redistribute copyrighted works illegally.
"Sharing music" (or sometimes "sharing music with friends")
"Set the culture free": "I don't like the idea of having to pay for music, because. Just because."
"The price of music is exorbitant, so I prefer to use BitTorrent": Music in shops isn't free. I think it should be.
"Sony put a rootkit on a CD, so I'm using BitTorrent instead": "I am a complete fucking dumbass who doesn't realise that pirating a CD instead of simply not buying it proves the labels' point and will make them more willing to use copy protection in the future. Also, I do not know about the shift key or its associated functions."
"Why should I buy 128kbps DRMed music from iTunes? I get higher quality from BT" "I don't know about Hymn, have never heard an AAC file in my life and more to the point BitTorrent is free."
"I download music because today's music is shit": "Buying an old CD from a record store isn't free, and I don't understand the economics of the music industry whatsoever."
"The record companies are greedy and take too much for themselves": "I don't know what functions a record industry serves or how much money they cost, so I'm going to assume they take lots of money to snort cocaine off of a hooker's tits."
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --