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For-Profit, Illegal Movie Download Sites Threaten MPAA
vossman77 writes that BitTorrent is no longer the MPAA's enemy number one. They are now more concerned about illicit, for-profit movie download sites. This reader adds, "Just a thought, but maybe if the studios offered a low-cost, for-profit, legitimate download site without DRM, they could receive the profits at the expense of the cyberlockers." "Movie fans downloading free pirated films are no longer Hollywood's worst nightmare, but that's only because of a newer menace: cheap, and equally illegal, subscription services. Foreign, often mob-run, businesses aggregate illegally obtained movies into 'cyberlockers.' Cyberlocker-based businesses operate from Russia, Ukraine, Colombia, Germany, Switzerland, and elsewhere. ... Hollywood movies are made available via illegal for-profit sites within days of theatrical release, while the advent of global releasing now allows the proliferation of individual titles into an array of language dubs within the first month of a theatrical debut. ... When movies are released on DVD and Blu-ray disc, the sites upgrade the quality of video offered from camcorded images to pristine digital copies. 'Sometimes these sites look better than the legitimate sites,' Huntsberry said. 'That's the irony.'"
Copies of which would end up on every file sharing site within minutes thus destroying the market for said DRM-less downloads.
Seeing as most people using the internet do not respect copyright, why would the MPAA think anything other than that would happen?
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
You must be new here.
You can search through the comments of older articles and find where slashdotters have said they would pay (some would pay MORE) for an unauthorized copy than give their money to the MPAA.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
No thank you Humpty, even if you're calling yourself by another name. You're still just dumping a big pile of shit and saying it's yours so it can't possibly stink, but it does to me. Better you just get over your self and blow it out your ass when you're the only one who has to put up with the stink.
ideopath @ play
LOL - you don't know the difference between digitally distributed media and DVDs. Its news to me that you can go into Target and buy digital downloads.