This guy is clearly a graduate of the AOL School of Custormer Retention.
I had a nearly identical call with America Online years ago. I didn't record it, but someone else recorded their similar experience. Definitely the same guy!
Bootleg movies are not generally filmed off movie screens in public theaters, they are stolen from somewhere near the end of the production chain and the beginning of the distribution chain. This usually means a disgruntled employee at a post production sound or visual effects facility, or a lab, or a dvd/digital cinema distributor. Any earlier and the movie isn't finished enough to be worth stealing, and any later the stealable items are either too rare or have been serialized so as to be likely to incriminate the thief.
Of course, once a DVD is released, it's all over, unless the filmmakers or their assigns care enough to scour the net and take down the pirate copies. And that approach really does work.
Yeah, the copyright laws are lame, but stealing music and movies is and always should be a crime. I have worked on many independent films and it really sucks to see people pirating the work that I am still owed money for. That said, when a producer/studio makes a film unavailable on reasonably priced paid outlets, they are just asking to get pirated. People will always find a way to get what they want.
As you ponder this, make sure to pick up a copy of the movie that owes me the most money, on Amazon amzn.to/1lkMh3P
The really scary thing about NASA is that you could read (or listen to...gotta love the iPod) Feynman's piece on the Shuttle disaster and, with only a couple substututions, have a cogent commentary on either of the two shuttle disasters.
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This guy is clearly a graduate of the AOL School of Custormer Retention.
I had a nearly identical call with America Online years ago. I didn't record it, but someone else recorded their similar experience. Definitely the same guy!
cw
" fly by night outfits "
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Bootleg movies are not generally filmed off movie screens in public theaters, they are stolen from somewhere near the end of the production chain and the beginning of the distribution chain. This usually means a disgruntled employee at a post production sound or visual effects facility, or a lab, or a dvd/digital cinema distributor. Any earlier and the movie isn't finished enough to be worth stealing, and any later the stealable items are either too rare or have been serialized so as to be likely to incriminate the thief.
Of course, once a DVD is released, it's all over, unless the filmmakers or their assigns care enough to scour the net and take down the pirate copies. And that approach really does work.
Yeah, the copyright laws are lame, but stealing music and movies is and always should be a crime. I have worked on many independent films and it really sucks to see people pirating the work that I am still owed money for. That said, when a producer/studio makes a film unavailable on reasonably priced paid outlets, they are just asking to get pirated. People will always find a way to get what they want.
As you ponder this, make sure to pick up a copy of the movie that owes me the most money, on Amazon amzn.to/1lkMh3P
cw
And you have to wonder when a paper on quantum mathematics has a typo in the headline... (elusive vs illusive) retards. watts
Is there some reason why this thread has worse spelling than any in recent memory?
The really scary thing about NASA is that you could read (or listen to...gotta love the iPod) Feynman's piece on the Shuttle disaster and, with only a couple substututions, have a cogent commentary on either of the two shuttle disasters.