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U.S. Joins Hollywood in War on Piracy
Section_Ei8ht writes to mention a Washington Post article about a new joint initiative between the U.S. government and the entertainment industry. The government will now be aiding efforts abroad to stop copyright infringement. They cite the recent Pirate Bay fiasco, as well as the problems Russia is having with the WTO as a result of their thriving IP black market. From the article: "The intellectual property industry and law enforcement officials estimate U.S. companies lose as much as $250 billion per year to Internet pirates, who swap digital copies of 'The DaVinci Code,' Chamillionaire's new album and the latest Grand Theft Auto video game for free."
I've yet to download any pirated copies of American entertainment. In my world there's Bach and Bebop, these I have on CD; then there's the rest of what passes for music. As for the rest of what passes for American entertainment there's nothing worth stealing coming from the America. I look forward optimistically to an offering from American entertainment that would be worth stealing and, possibly, even buying.
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Ok now I understand why the music industry said they have won the war on piracy. They are passing off the invasive tactics to a seedier ally. Yea I pirate stuff, I don't think anyone who has a PC and internet access has not. The fact of the matter is that there is so much complete garbage coming from both Movie and Music industry that I refuse to spend hard earned money on something that I cannot confirm that I like. I'm not going to purchase a car without testing it out first. Yea they complain about people downloading movies still in theatres, WTF as much as it costs for a single person to go see the movie let alone a family DAMN right I'm going to want to know what my money is buying before I dump 100 bux into the pocket of some half assed movie producer/director cause of his name. You can also blame the people in the movies for this to a degree too. 20+ million to make a movie as lame ass as war of the worlds?! You should have paid this out to people for the time they invested in seeing this atrocity(nothing personal Steven). With the current sequel a year tactics of movies and such, most of which don't deserve the first movie let alone a sequel, why do I even bother with over glorified TV shows with digital sound? Again I stress, its not that everyone wants to be a pirate, although I'm sure that some do, its that you leave little options to the contrary. Movie downloads should be widely accepted by now yet you stifel them for your "DVD" sales. WTF do I need to go to a video store to get a movie when my HIGH SPEED internet connection has wonderful delivery method built-in. If holywood wants to crucify someone start with its own. Make an example of the halfassed movies that come out in groves and make more people weep with disgust then creating a witch hunt out of everyday people to proclaim that you are losing 250bn a year on shit like "the da vinci code" (great book, lackluster movie). If you start asking a reasonable fee for the GOLD plated tin foil you're passing off as pure I'm sure that we will return in kind. Heaven knows the 2k a month I make which almost covers my place to live and just my bills let alone my car payment and other stuff just ain't worth trying to divey up a share to some guy who makes 20mil just to look good in front of a camera and wince when a bright light that he is told is an explosion. Please sue me for piracy you can have the 3.75c I have left at the end of each month till hell freezes over cause you sure as hell won't get more then that out of me no matter how much you stomp and stare. Holywood can kiss my ass just like the record companies. Make something I want and then make it affordable and we'll talk till then SUE ME.. can't get blood from a turnip... HM
I know you really meant the War on drugs. The War on terror? Abstract Idea? I guess those were abstract nobodies killed in the WTC. Must have been abstract fucking nobodies killed in the pentagon. What an ignorant fucking statement. Terrorists actively plan and plot to come to america and kill innocent americans. We find them and stop them. Nothing fucking abstract about that. The War on drugs, yea that is a useless concept just like the war on piracy.