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Uwe Boll, Other Filmmakers Sue Thousands of Movie Pirates
linzeal writes "Directors whose films have done poorly at the box office are increasingly being solicited by high-powered law firms to file lawsuits with offers of settlement. This practice, which the EFF has been calling extortive and 'mafia-like', has resulted in courts starting to rule in favor of the consumer, and in some cases throwing out the lawsuits. This is all fine and dandy, however, when you are considered the world's worst director and you largely finance films through your own holding company. At that point, the rhetoric and ridicule gets ratcheted up rather quickly."
Are they seriously trying to convince me that someone would want to pirate Uwe Boll's movies?
I hereby declare that on July 1st through July 4th we will celebrate the Independence of these United States by having a four day hunting season on trial lawyers. No bag limit! We do need certain rules to ensure fair chase:
1. No hunting within 200 feet of an Ambulance.
2. No standing on a corner yelling "Free Scotch".
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
From Uwe Boll's wikipedia entry (this is priceless): "Another reviewer wrote that Alone in the Dark was "so poorly built, so horribly acted and so sloppily stitched together that it's not even at the straight-to-DVD level."[16] For example, in one scene a character who was "killed" can visibly be seen getting up as the actor prematurely made the move to get off the set."
got a torrent?
On the one hand, we have people who copy data without paying the creator. They have a small impact on the creators' financial incentive to create, and potentially reduce the cultural output.
On the other hand, we have Uwe Boll, who produces films that are so mind shatteringly bad that people need weeks of expensive therapy after watching them, taking money away from competent film makers and causing an entire generation to lose respect for the cinematic medium.
Finally, we have people who pirate Uwe Boll movies, intentionally spreading them to a large unsuspecting population.
People in category one are selfish. The person in category two is unfortunate. The people in category three are dangerous sociopaths.
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Don't pirate movies.
Hhhm, tell that to the printer at UW that got literally hundreds of DMCA notices.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Trying to win these cases. He has to convince a jury his movies are worth paying for.
I wouldn't want to see Stephen Wolfram without his robes, either.
"None of these people are proven to be pirates. Uwe Boll claims they are."
Uwe Boll also claims to be a film-maker, so I think it's clear we should take anything he says with a grain of salt.
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Shakespeare being recited in Latin, while the other persons head was being beaten in? Blood splatters everywhere...with a touch of humanism.
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I'm downloading it as I type this
And what about his wizard hat?
Igor Presnyakov stole my hat