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The Pirate Bay, Featured in Vanity Fair
koregaonpark writes "Via the TorrentFreak site, an article in the latest issue of Vanity Fair about BitTorrent, movie piracy and The Pirate Bay. The Vanity Fair piece is lengthy, and covers the MPAA's struggle to stamp out piracy, Hollywood's increasing losses, and how the 'heartfelt testimony of Ben Affleck, a man who was paid $12.5 million to star in Gigli,' didn't help one bit. 'Pirates of the Multiplex' covers the saga of Pirate Bay in a very high-level, mass-market fashion. Did you ever think you'd be reading about TPB in Vanity Fair?"
No. I would have bet I'd be masturbating to glossy pictures of Angelina Jolie while simultaneously smelling delightful perfumed inserts.
"When you see something you like, either go and buy it directly from the actor/musician you like (say, on tour or at the theater), or pay to see them live."
On behalf of all non-performing artists(ie composers/producers),
Fuck you.
Composing and performing are two different things. People make music they don't perform. Your example, when extended to programming, would mean programmers shouldn't get paid for coming up with a useful program, but rather for the act of re-typing the code for others' amusement.
Someone making techno in his basement will never see a fucking dime via your logic.
gay ones
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
You are all freaks that spit and crap all over the US, its policies, and people, and you steal hollywood movies and call it fair.
Whenever your backwater bullshit country can produce the content that hollywood does, I will gladly steal it and flip you off as you complain that your not getting paid.
It seems to be a fairly common sentiment that while stealing is a bad thing, stealing from the rich is OK.
If you honestly think that movie stars get paid too much, don't steal the resulting work, just don't buy it.
How much a DVD costs is determined by what people are willing to pay for it. Period. You can whine a cry about these idiot movie stars making 50x what you make, but if you go buy their movies anyway then you're just being stupid.