Small college might not have anymore connection then an oc3. They probably need to limit based on the least common denominator just to make sure they have enough bandwidth for basic internet. (scale connection as college size goes up.) its not like all colleges have multiple fiber connections to the backbone.
First there are a LOT of things the MPAA does as I said before that are CRAP STUPID DUMB. But there is a reason AVATAR made more money then any movie ever even when adjusted for inflation. I am never going to agree that its ok to copy then upload for the whole world. Just as your boss would never just let his drafts out into the real world. I am really just sick of the people that think they are ENTITLED to it then justify it as some political statement. Its not much of a political statement when they are proving to them that they want the content. Are actors over paid. probably Should the rest of the crews be paid better? depends. I think it pretty dumb for a movie to cost so much people can't go to them. That seems short sighted. Same with Baseball et al. but I am not going to turn my back on doing what I do just because. Neither are the 10s of thousands of people working in this industry that aren't Tom Cruise. I think is TOTAL bs for people to go Its not how I wanted it. Yea? So what? What give anyone the right to dictate to anyone how they do business. In ever other business you don't go there anymore. Well pirates are seen as still going just not paying.
right. Tell that to the 50 + crowd that probably won't get hired again because of that. My mother had a Masters in international business with 35 year of telecommunications background. Decoder in the Air Force. No one would hire her when she got laid off from ATT. so quit with the BS about being multi talented. I have a degree in Physics and Chemistry. I bet I could design and draft render and do the metallurgy on everything you do. Thompson Automotive (TRW) bought out our family business because of Metallurgy. Maybe you know them JADSON or by the later name post 1937 after the buy out Dale and Lem started Drake Engineering or maybe you know us by the Engine we made for over 50 years called the OFFY.
So why don't you just take the engineering schematics you have and post them online. I mean you want to share right. Everyone should get them for free right?
And why do all the other chinese parts on a Boeing plan work? I wouldn't know much about it my father was the Lead test engineer on AWACS at Boeing before he retired. Ever heard of the 7j7? You might also want to look at what percentage of your Car is Chinese seeing as GM has what 17 plants in China now. I am sure all the programers that lost their jobs to India would agree with you totally. Again IF PEOPLE DON"T LIKE THE MOVIES WHY ARE PEOPLE PIRATING THEM? Its pretty funny to read "I HATE MOVES thats why I pirate them." If you don't buy the blu ray for $40 and no on else does either guess what will happen? Guess what doesn't happen. Its good to see you are rightwing capitalist on one front then whine about it on the other. Can you make up your mind please.
My father was the head engineer on awacs I know what you do. you do your peon job while the fat cats at boeing move their office from Seattle to Boeing Costing thousands of jobs so that some fat cats could have more money. Wow total different huh? Its ok you won't have a job soon when the Chinese just copy your work and make it for 1/10th the cost because they just did a laser scan of your parts without having to do any work at all. Again there are ZILLIONS of indie movies made EVERY YEAR. They are on DVD all over the place. Why don't you just go find them. I dont' recall anything in the bill of rights about being entertained for free.
If people didn't like what we make then they wouldn't be pirating it would then
Well you are wrong about how the movie industry works completely. no one is on retainer EVER. even the union guys ARE ALL TEMP. JOB TO JOB. If you can't do your job even in the union in this world you aren't working. So once again when you take the time to reseach how it works in the movie industry you should just shut up. Nothing you said even remotely applies to this industry or how its union works AT ALL ZERO. Good to see you admit you have not a clue about how the union and the industry as a whole operates. Damn you are just ignorant. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS STAFF in Hollywood. EVERYONE IS JOB TO JOB. EVERYONE. Its not freaking 1940's studio system anymore.
umm not all unions are like the UAW or CWA. Second. Yup movies do suck a whole lot of them. I wish people would go to more quality movies we have more of them in LA because we have tons of little indie theatres.
Just curious though. When you are working on a job do you get to tell your boss no? I work in this industry I work on what ever is hiring. Just like most people. I don't read the script then go Oh yess this is the movie for me. No I go oh your are hiring GREAT I'll take it.
Your are right the bulk of the cost of a blu ray disk is the mark up Best Buy puts on it.
We are not just talking about theatrical showings. The producers are separate from ALL distribution. I believe its the distributors that you have an issue with since they tend to be the one that decide what will get distributed not the producers. This is why when you watch a movie it has like 6 different production companies.
Then don't buy it. Its the government that forced the studio to not be allowed to do direct distribution or you don't know that because you are clueless. They are just getting the laws changed so they can have direct distribution without being dragged into court of anti competitive behavior. That why you don't have theatres with studio names anymore. You might still have a FOX or a PARAMOUNT theatre where you live. Probably don't show movies there right? because the GOVERNMENT SAID THEY COULDN'T. So they either sold them or closed them. God damn do some research. so the studio makes a bluerae disk it can't sell it directly. It has to go through distribution which drives up the cost. Thats not the studios fault. the MPAA does some fucked up things but maybe stick to what they are really doing wrong instead of making things up in your head that you think are happening that aren't
when those dudes got there union agreements 40 years ago that was pretty standard stuff. So what you think we should take the 70 year old and through them out in the street? Good plan. You don't think unions are a good idea then don't be on one. Then maybe the movies studios could really screw over everyone. So I guess you and the studios have a lot in common. Good thing those unions existed or you would still be working 16 hour days with ZERO holiday pay. Oh and Guess what my part of the movie industry doesn't have a union but I still don't think we get to just be jealous cause they do. Good for them at least they are getting legally what you are stealing.
wow I don't work for the MPAA and most people in the industry accept for the BIG studios has anything to do with them. So you keep going with that flawed concept.
UMM those residuals pay for their retirements plans with the unions. Or you are anti union also? Don't think they should have those plans in place? If you think that then you are right. The should except Netflix and BlockBuster don't charge you $2-$5 do they.
Oh and do you think every indie band on the internet is trying pay all these peoples Salaries? What about the rest of those people? You think they don't have families and aren't hustling for work non stop in between jobs? And thats not an animated movie or VFX movie that are the MOST pirated.
This is all the people that aren't actors or producers for
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
Original Music
Alexandre Desplat
Cinematographers
Chris Menges
Editors
Claire Simpson
Casting Directors
Ellen Lewis
Mele Nagler
Production Designers
K.K. Barrett
Art Directors
Peter Rogness
Set Decorators
George DeTitta Jr.
Costume Designers
Ann Roth
Make Up Department
Erika Smith... hair stylist
Chris Clark... key hair stylist
Diane Dixon... hair stylist
Marjorie Durand... key makeup artist
Linda Kaufman... makeup artist
Natasha Ladek... wig maker: Sandra Bullock
Joanna McCarthy... makeup artist
Louise McCarthy... makeup department head
Jerry Popolis... hair department head
Ivana Primorac... hair designer
Ivana Primorac... makeup designer
Janine Rath... personal hair stylist: Sandra Bullock
Pamela S. Westmore... makeup artist: Sandra Bullock
Production Managers
Deb Dyer... unit production manager
Afnahn Khan... post-production executive
Claire Kirk... production supervisor: second unit
Jennifer Lane... post-production supervisor
Second Unit Directors or Assistant Directors
Scott Bowers... additional second assistant director
Catherine Feeny... second second assistant director
Tarik Karam... second unit director
Amy Lauritsen... key second assistant director
Travis Rehwaldt... second second assistant director
Richard Styles... first assistant director
Art Department
Derrick Alford... construction coordinator
Tommy Allen... property master
I. Javier Ameijeiras... production illustrator
I. Javier Ameijeiras... storyboard artist
Michael Auszura... assistant art director
Wendy Brown... set dresser
Lauren Buckley... art department coordinator
Mary Citarella... scenic artist
Jeffrey Czaja... scenic artist
Miguel De Jesus... industrial shop person
Dan DeTitta... buyer
Gerald DeTitta... leadman
Lauren DeTitta... assistant set decorator
Paul George Divone... key shop craftsman
Christopher Doogan... scenic foreman
Ann Edgeworth... props
Adam Goodnoff-Cernese... key on-set dresser
Judy Gurr... assistant set decorator
Jay Hendrickx... charge scenic
Samantha Higgins... set dresser
James Hoff... camera scenic artist
James Hoff... scenic artist
Gay Howard... art department coordinator: set decoration department
Timothy Joliat... set dresser
Derrick Kardos... graphic artist
Derrick Kardos... graphic designer
George Kousoulides... scenic artist
Hugh Landwehr... assistant art director
Joanna Leavens... art department assistant
Todd Lichtenstein... shop electric
Emma Lundberg... set decoration assistant
Todd MacNicholl... key construction grip
John Mazzoni
Really? show me where anyone said that? again another clueless person. Show me one documented anything that says that. You guys love making shit up based on some little story that ran once 20 years ago. Would you like me to explain it to you. Should I use big words or little words? Parent production company works with little production company. Little production company can not make money since it pays out all its money to workers and then profits go to parent company that does make money (unless its lions gate ) Then instead of paying taxes TWICE they only pay taxes at parent company level and not every tier inbetween. Little production company will never make money cause it can't because all profits are distributed to its share holders and to parent company. No one said they where going out of business they just are avoiding paying complex taxes and paying all those taxes at one convergence point. AND THEY DO PAY THEIR TAXES unlike GE.
Who makes you watch 3d? No movie is just in stereo. Those toys are all on the fast food companies not the studios. The studio don't pay to put those toys out. The restaurants PAY to get to sell them to bring in customers and if it wasn't working they wouldn't be doing it. Damn you just have no clue do you. You just have no freaking idea how all this works and how many people work there asses off to do this stuff or even how the moneys are split up to pay for things. Seriously just because you're ignorant does make you right.
umm a few weeks might be for the talent. but for everyone else its about 18 months or longer. Building sets designing sets doing all the VFX. Or you think we do all the VFX in a few weeks? You think I make millions of dollars doing VFX? You think the set builders make millions of dollars. You have no clue what it takes to make a movie based on what you just said. Clearly you might want to educate yourself before you say such utterly stupid things.
Why do you think charging 1.99 will change anything? All piracy does it take money out of the hands of the crews that work on movies that work harder and longer hours then you I am guessing. It makes it harder to to get the content because they are not going to give up. If you dont' like what they provide then dont' watch it but now one can make the claim that they should get it all free cause they dont' like how they sell it. When did entertainment made others become a Human right? I want to know why its ok for yo to pay for Electricity and not pay for the movies, tv and Games. You can by pass the meter. You can use magnets to affect its operation. Hell those boxes are crazy easy to hack. Its not taking something away from anyone. Its a victim less crime. Im curious what you do for a living lumpy? Supporting you family? or just living in mom basement? I have a $125,000 education that I PAID FOR. No mommy payment plane. I then BUSTED MY ASS to get to the level I am at doing my job. To which I make just more then the median salary in LA. I work more hours then a chinese factory worker this stuff and you think its a victim less crime. Im sorry that you think everyone that works on this stuff makes millions of dollars. They don't. I love this robin hood bullshit. Rob from the middle class worker to give to the spoiled kids plan. NICE. Probably why I had to spend the past 2 years of my life living in hotels in foreign countries to do my job in VFX. One of those being China. So you go ahead keep thinking its ok to Pirate movies and put a lot of people out of work because it will all go to china and india accept for the talent who do make millions of dollars. It won't affect them at all. It just affects every one below the line on the budget sheet. There are a lot of things the MPAA does stupid but that doesn't justify killing the jobs of all the people behind the scenes when they just start making all the movies in China and India and flying the Talent to those place to make the movies. MORON.
so you think $1.99 covers the cost off all the workers on a movie? Prior to marketing what do you think the block buster movies cost? $100,000,000? about some double that some a bit less. That meas before any marketing cost (which at a minimums is 20 million and up to 60 million) 50,000,000 would have to buy the movie just to brake even on the cost of the movie. Most businesses are in business to break even. 50,000,000 people don't go to every movie.
are you aware that after Tian ah Mien that lots changed in China? (still lots to go but they have to do it themselves) People protest pretty regularly in China and with much bigger balls then US protesters. Have you ever threatened to have a mass suicide of 20,000 people if you don't get better working conditions? (you will have to google/bing/yahoo that to get the actual number.)
And on that note. umm only apple? Like these places only make Apple stuff? I dont' think so. Is it only slavery when its an apple product not a dell amazon hp....... product?
First why is a base Ball pitcher commenting on the game market?
Second, How is Steam any different then this? You for sure can't resale you steam games.
If the judge doesn't believe her and finds her in contempt AS THE JUDGE CAN. WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE A JUDGE. You are going to be locked up as long as the JUDGE ie THE COURT ie DUE PROCESS wants to hold you there because the JUDGE has found you GUILTY OF CONTEMPT. You would have to find another JUDGE and go through a not at all easy process that historically fails.
Then why are you owning any electronics made in china? ANY. you are a slave promoter. You KNOW they are treated not so wonderful in some factories yet you still buy the products. YOU, YES YOU are as responsible as APPLE, DELL, HP for the factory conditions every time you buy a product. FYI the Suicide rate at the Foxconn Factory is HALF the rest of China and Lower then most states in the US. Seems like maybe they might be doing something right compared to the other factories and most US states. Whats it like Being a partial slave owner, know it and not doing anything about it.
Stage coach drives lived in an economic environment where they had other alternatives for income. Places that mine Taltalum usually don't and the tantalum mining is the only thing that brought the out of extreme poverty to begin with. While is is not true of say Brazil or Australia is very true of the central African mines.
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So can we start blaming google for more global warming yet, swiching all those bits?
Small college might not have anymore connection then an oc3. They probably need to limit based on the least common denominator just to make sure they have enough bandwidth for basic internet. (scale connection as college size goes up.) its not like all colleges have multiple fiber connections to the backbone.
except that most of these generators or TURBINES that once started generate all their own power to run themselves.
How does that explain OPERA groups results then? Do they not meet your standard either?
First there are a LOT of things the MPAA does as I said before that are CRAP STUPID DUMB. But there is a reason AVATAR made more money then any movie ever even when adjusted for inflation. I am never going to agree that its ok to copy then upload for the whole world. Just as your boss would never just let his drafts out into the real world. I am really just sick of the people that think they are ENTITLED to it then justify it as some political statement. Its not much of a political statement when they are proving to them that they want the content. Are actors over paid. probably Should the rest of the crews be paid better? depends. I think it pretty dumb for a movie to cost so much people can't go to them. That seems short sighted. Same with Baseball et al. but I am not going to turn my back on doing what I do just because. Neither are the 10s of thousands of people working in this industry that aren't Tom Cruise. I think is TOTAL bs for people to go Its not how I wanted it. Yea? So what? What give anyone the right to dictate to anyone how they do business. In ever other business you don't go there anymore. Well pirates are seen as still going just not paying.
right. Tell that to the 50 + crowd that probably won't get hired again because of that. My mother had a Masters in international business with 35 year of telecommunications background. Decoder in the Air Force. No one would hire her when she got laid off from ATT. so quit with the BS about being multi talented. I have a degree in Physics and Chemistry. I bet I could design and draft render and do the metallurgy on everything you do. Thompson Automotive (TRW) bought out our family business because of Metallurgy. Maybe you know them JADSON or by the later name post 1937 after the buy out Dale and Lem started Drake Engineering or maybe you know us by the Engine we made for over 50 years called the OFFY. So why don't you just take the engineering schematics you have and post them online. I mean you want to share right. Everyone should get them for free right? And why do all the other chinese parts on a Boeing plan work? I wouldn't know much about it my father was the Lead test engineer on AWACS at Boeing before he retired. Ever heard of the 7j7? You might also want to look at what percentage of your Car is Chinese seeing as GM has what 17 plants in China now. I am sure all the programers that lost their jobs to India would agree with you totally. Again IF PEOPLE DON"T LIKE THE MOVIES WHY ARE PEOPLE PIRATING THEM? Its pretty funny to read "I HATE MOVES thats why I pirate them." If you don't buy the blu ray for $40 and no on else does either guess what will happen? Guess what doesn't happen. Its good to see you are rightwing capitalist on one front then whine about it on the other. Can you make up your mind please.
My father was the head engineer on awacs I know what you do. you do your peon job while the fat cats at boeing move their office from Seattle to Boeing Costing thousands of jobs so that some fat cats could have more money. Wow total different huh? Its ok you won't have a job soon when the Chinese just copy your work and make it for 1/10th the cost because they just did a laser scan of your parts without having to do any work at all. Again there are ZILLIONS of indie movies made EVERY YEAR. They are on DVD all over the place. Why don't you just go find them. I dont' recall anything in the bill of rights about being entertained for free. If people didn't like what we make then they wouldn't be pirating it would then
Well you are wrong about how the movie industry works completely. no one is on retainer EVER. even the union guys ARE ALL TEMP. JOB TO JOB. If you can't do your job even in the union in this world you aren't working. So once again when you take the time to reseach how it works in the movie industry you should just shut up. Nothing you said even remotely applies to this industry or how its union works AT ALL ZERO. Good to see you admit you have not a clue about how the union and the industry as a whole operates. Damn you are just ignorant. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS STAFF in Hollywood. EVERYONE IS JOB TO JOB. EVERYONE. Its not freaking 1940's studio system anymore.
umm not all unions are like the UAW or CWA. Second. Yup movies do suck a whole lot of them. I wish people would go to more quality movies we have more of them in LA because we have tons of little indie theatres. Just curious though. When you are working on a job do you get to tell your boss no? I work in this industry I work on what ever is hiring. Just like most people. I don't read the script then go Oh yess this is the movie for me. No I go oh your are hiring GREAT I'll take it. Your are right the bulk of the cost of a blu ray disk is the mark up Best Buy puts on it. We are not just talking about theatrical showings. The producers are separate from ALL distribution. I believe its the distributors that you have an issue with since they tend to be the one that decide what will get distributed not the producers. This is why when you watch a movie it has like 6 different production companies.
Then don't buy it. Its the government that forced the studio to not be allowed to do direct distribution or you don't know that because you are clueless. They are just getting the laws changed so they can have direct distribution without being dragged into court of anti competitive behavior. That why you don't have theatres with studio names anymore. You might still have a FOX or a PARAMOUNT theatre where you live. Probably don't show movies there right? because the GOVERNMENT SAID THEY COULDN'T. So they either sold them or closed them. God damn do some research. so the studio makes a bluerae disk it can't sell it directly. It has to go through distribution which drives up the cost. Thats not the studios fault. the MPAA does some fucked up things but maybe stick to what they are really doing wrong instead of making things up in your head that you think are happening that aren't when those dudes got there union agreements 40 years ago that was pretty standard stuff. So what you think we should take the 70 year old and through them out in the street? Good plan. You don't think unions are a good idea then don't be on one. Then maybe the movies studios could really screw over everyone. So I guess you and the studios have a lot in common. Good thing those unions existed or you would still be working 16 hour days with ZERO holiday pay. Oh and Guess what my part of the movie industry doesn't have a union but I still don't think we get to just be jealous cause they do. Good for them at least they are getting legally what you are stealing.
wow I don't work for the MPAA and most people in the industry accept for the BIG studios has anything to do with them. So you keep going with that flawed concept.
UMM those residuals pay for their retirements plans with the unions. Or you are anti union also? Don't think they should have those plans in place? If you think that then you are right. The should except Netflix and BlockBuster don't charge you $2-$5 do they.
Oh and do you think every indie band on the internet is trying pay all these peoples Salaries? What about the rest of those people? You think they don't have families and aren't hustling for work non stop in between jobs? And thats not an animated movie or VFX movie that are the MOST pirated. This is all the people that aren't actors or producers for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
... hair stylist
Chris Clark ... key hair stylist
Diane Dixon ... hair stylist
Marjorie Durand ... key makeup artist
Linda Kaufman ... makeup artist
Natasha Ladek ... wig maker: Sandra Bullock
Joanna McCarthy ... makeup artist
Louise McCarthy ... makeup department head
Jerry Popolis ... hair department head
Ivana Primorac ... hair designer
Ivana Primorac ... makeup designer
Janine Rath ... personal hair stylist: Sandra Bullock
Pamela S. Westmore ... makeup artist: Sandra Bullock
Production Managers
Deb Dyer ... unit production manager
Afnahn Khan ... post-production executive
Claire Kirk ... production supervisor: second unit
Jennifer Lane ... post-production supervisor
Second Unit Directors or Assistant Directors
Scott Bowers ... additional second assistant director
Catherine Feeny ... second second assistant director
Tarik Karam ... second unit director
Amy Lauritsen ... key second assistant director
Travis Rehwaldt ... second second assistant director
Richard Styles ... first assistant director
Art Department
Derrick Alford ... construction coordinator
Tommy Allen ... property master
I. Javier Ameijeiras ... production illustrator
I. Javier Ameijeiras ... storyboard artist
Michael Auszura ... assistant art director
Wendy Brown ... set dresser
Lauren Buckley ... art department coordinator
Mary Citarella ... scenic artist
Jeffrey Czaja ... scenic artist
Miguel De Jesus ... industrial shop person
Dan DeTitta ... buyer
Gerald DeTitta ... leadman
Lauren DeTitta ... assistant set decorator
Paul George Divone ... key shop craftsman
Christopher Doogan ... scenic foreman
Ann Edgeworth ... props
Adam Goodnoff-Cernese ... key on-set dresser
Judy Gurr ... assistant set decorator
Jay Hendrickx ... charge scenic
Samantha Higgins ... set dresser
James Hoff ... camera scenic artist
James Hoff ... scenic artist
Gay Howard ... art department coordinator: set decoration department
Timothy Joliat ... set dresser
Derrick Kardos ... graphic artist
Derrick Kardos ... graphic designer
George Kousoulides ... scenic artist
Hugh Landwehr ... assistant art director
Joanna Leavens ... art department assistant
Todd Lichtenstein ... shop electric
Emma Lundberg ... set decoration assistant
Todd MacNicholl ... key construction grip
John Mazzoni
Original Music Alexandre Desplat Cinematographers Chris Menges Editors Claire Simpson Casting Directors Ellen Lewis Mele Nagler Production Designers K.K. Barrett Art Directors Peter Rogness Set Decorators George DeTitta Jr. Costume Designers Ann Roth Make Up Department Erika Smith
Really? show me where anyone said that? again another clueless person. Show me one documented anything that says that. You guys love making shit up based on some little story that ran once 20 years ago. Would you like me to explain it to you. Should I use big words or little words? Parent production company works with little production company. Little production company can not make money since it pays out all its money to workers and then profits go to parent company that does make money (unless its lions gate ) Then instead of paying taxes TWICE they only pay taxes at parent company level and not every tier inbetween. Little production company will never make money cause it can't because all profits are distributed to its share holders and to parent company. No one said they where going out of business they just are avoiding paying complex taxes and paying all those taxes at one convergence point. AND THEY DO PAY THEIR TAXES unlike GE.
Who makes you watch 3d? No movie is just in stereo. Those toys are all on the fast food companies not the studios. The studio don't pay to put those toys out. The restaurants PAY to get to sell them to bring in customers and if it wasn't working they wouldn't be doing it. Damn you just have no clue do you. You just have no freaking idea how all this works and how many people work there asses off to do this stuff or even how the moneys are split up to pay for things. Seriously just because you're ignorant does make you right.
umm a few weeks might be for the talent. but for everyone else its about 18 months or longer. Building sets designing sets doing all the VFX. Or you think we do all the VFX in a few weeks? You think I make millions of dollars doing VFX? You think the set builders make millions of dollars. You have no clue what it takes to make a movie based on what you just said. Clearly you might want to educate yourself before you say such utterly stupid things.
Why do you think charging 1.99 will change anything? All piracy does it take money out of the hands of the crews that work on movies that work harder and longer hours then you I am guessing. It makes it harder to to get the content because they are not going to give up. If you dont' like what they provide then dont' watch it but now one can make the claim that they should get it all free cause they dont' like how they sell it. When did entertainment made others become a Human right? I want to know why its ok for yo to pay for Electricity and not pay for the movies, tv and Games. You can by pass the meter. You can use magnets to affect its operation. Hell those boxes are crazy easy to hack. Its not taking something away from anyone. Its a victim less crime. Im curious what you do for a living lumpy? Supporting you family? or just living in mom basement? I have a $125,000 education that I PAID FOR. No mommy payment plane. I then BUSTED MY ASS to get to the level I am at doing my job. To which I make just more then the median salary in LA. I work more hours then a chinese factory worker this stuff and you think its a victim less crime. Im sorry that you think everyone that works on this stuff makes millions of dollars. They don't. I love this robin hood bullshit. Rob from the middle class worker to give to the spoiled kids plan. NICE. Probably why I had to spend the past 2 years of my life living in hotels in foreign countries to do my job in VFX. One of those being China. So you go ahead keep thinking its ok to Pirate movies and put a lot of people out of work because it will all go to china and india accept for the talent who do make millions of dollars. It won't affect them at all. It just affects every one below the line on the budget sheet. There are a lot of things the MPAA does stupid but that doesn't justify killing the jobs of all the people behind the scenes when they just start making all the movies in China and India and flying the Talent to those place to make the movies. MORON.
so you think $1.99 covers the cost off all the workers on a movie? Prior to marketing what do you think the block buster movies cost? $100,000,000? about some double that some a bit less. That meas before any marketing cost (which at a minimums is 20 million and up to 60 million) 50,000,000 would have to buy the movie just to brake even on the cost of the movie. Most businesses are in business to break even. 50,000,000 people don't go to every movie.
are you aware that after Tian ah Mien that lots changed in China? (still lots to go but they have to do it themselves) People protest pretty regularly in China and with much bigger balls then US protesters. Have you ever threatened to have a mass suicide of 20,000 people if you don't get better working conditions? (you will have to google/bing/yahoo that to get the actual number.)
And on that note. umm only apple? Like these places only make Apple stuff? I dont' think so. Is it only slavery when its an apple product not a dell amazon hp ....... product?
First why is a base Ball pitcher commenting on the game market? Second, How is Steam any different then this? You for sure can't resale you steam games.
WATER mostly then a bunch of really nasty other stuff. but its mostly water vapor
If the judge doesn't believe her and finds her in contempt AS THE JUDGE CAN. WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE A JUDGE. You are going to be locked up as long as the JUDGE ie THE COURT ie DUE PROCESS wants to hold you there because the JUDGE has found you GUILTY OF CONTEMPT. You would have to find another JUDGE and go through a not at all easy process that historically fails.
Then why are you owning any electronics made in china? ANY. you are a slave promoter. You KNOW they are treated not so wonderful in some factories yet you still buy the products. YOU, YES YOU are as responsible as APPLE, DELL, HP for the factory conditions every time you buy a product. FYI the Suicide rate at the Foxconn Factory is HALF the rest of China and Lower then most states in the US. Seems like maybe they might be doing something right compared to the other factories and most US states. Whats it like Being a partial slave owner, know it and not doing anything about it.
Stage coach drives lived in an economic environment where they had other alternatives for income. Places that mine Taltalum usually don't and the tantalum mining is the only thing that brought the out of extreme poverty to begin with. While is is not true of say Brazil or Australia is very true of the central African mines.