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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.'"
I thought the porn studios made fucking movies
Being a spelling & grammar Nazi is a sign you do not poses the intelligence to contribute to the conversation
Just because you don't want to pay doesn't justify illegally obtaining it. I may only want to pay $1000 for it, but going and buying it for $1000 from a guy who stole it from a dealership is certainly criminal. Why do people not realize the same about digital media? If you don't want to pay for it, dont buy it. That doesn't mean go steal it.
Indeed. All this talk of infringing reminds me of my part time job in a day care. "I didn't steal those cookies (it was my hand that did it lol)!" "My feet's not one the desk (my shoes are lol)! Really now folks, if you truly believe in piracy, try to argue about how it's benign, or if you're really daring how it's a good thing. Once you succeed there, folks would automatically join you in calling the act copyright infringement. But bringing up semantics doesn't change how someone views your actions, but it does make them think you're being defensive and anal. To make an analogy, if someone were to indignantly say I didn't torture that person, I raped that person, would you go; oh I'm so glad he corrected my vernacular ? And yes, I'm well aware rape and piracy are worlds apart in severity, it is like I said an analogy.