as soon as they make the movie, which shouldn;t be that long, as Robert Rodriguez seems pretty set on getting every Frank Miller comic made into a movie..
-james
While I agree with the general disdain for the MPAA and all other attempt as legislating morality, my assumption for the discrepancy in penalties is ease of distribution and ease of anonymity. If you video tape a movie and toss it onto a CD, it's a lot easier to sell (or upload onto any file-sharing network for free, if that's your thing) than if you had the film reel and were having screenings. It's also a lot harder to catch the copyright violators in a digital world than it is if they are setting up a small movie theatre and showing the movie. Stealing the DVD/VHS is just theft of the object, but once it's ripped to DiVX (or whatever your preferred flavor) it becomes much easier to distribute. You can only sell off the DVD once. Profit-wise, that's not much to the MPAA, but if you rip it, and sell it, that's probably several dozen minimum DVDs not being bought.
Personally, if I like the movie, I probably will buy it on DVD, if I think the movie is too lame for my $20, I won't but it, but I might download and burn a rip of it. Either way I haven't bought the DVD.
-james
They never seemed to have a problem with ditching their badges whenever they needed to be sneaky. The other night, they had two episodes of TNG in a row where they did that (the one with alissa milano as wesley's girlfriend with that video game thing, and the one where the 'ghosts of the essex' take over troi and worf's bodies.)
doing some subterfuge? just ditch your badge in the turbolift...
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as soon as they make the movie, which shouldn;t be that long, as Robert Rodriguez seems pretty set on getting every Frank Miller comic made into a movie.. -james
While I agree with the general disdain for the MPAA and all other attempt as legislating morality, my assumption for the discrepancy in penalties is ease of distribution and ease of anonymity. If you video tape a movie and toss it onto a CD, it's a lot easier to sell (or upload onto any file-sharing network for free, if that's your thing) than if you had the film reel and were having screenings. It's also a lot harder to catch the copyright violators in a digital world than it is if they are setting up a small movie theatre and showing the movie. Stealing the DVD/VHS is just theft of the object, but once it's ripped to DiVX (or whatever your preferred flavor) it becomes much easier to distribute. You can only sell off the DVD once. Profit-wise, that's not much to the MPAA, but if you rip it, and sell it, that's probably several dozen minimum DVDs not being bought. Personally, if I like the movie, I probably will buy it on DVD, if I think the movie is too lame for my $20, I won't but it, but I might download and burn a rip of it. Either way I haven't bought the DVD. -james
They never seemed to have a problem with ditching their badges whenever they needed to be sneaky. The other night, they had two episodes of TNG in a row where they did that (the one with alissa milano as wesley's girlfriend with that video game thing, and the one where the 'ghosts of the essex' take over troi and worf's bodies.) doing some subterfuge? just ditch your badge in the turbolift...
"My god, it's full of stars" ...had to be said