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23,322 Bittorrent users are being sued for downloading the worst movie...

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kitamesume:
yep, to top it all off, they still get millions of copy sales even with a certain percentage of pirating. they're a bunch of greedy people, if they shot down dvd price below 10$ each and atleast 25$ on B-Ray each then its a pretty damn good steal considering you`d be owning an original highquality legal copy of [insert movie title] with an included of warranty as well. pirates would be forced to shoot their price down below 3$ which would lead them selves to ruin as their electric bills, internet bills and other operation bills arent free and pirates cant perfectly copy the original quality as well. considering who wouldnt buy a legal copy for 10$?

if they considered pirating for free, then they're at more loss than they would've gained, pirating would then lower down for quite a number. doubt pirating would seize tho.

Lupin:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on May 11, 2011, 05:08:01 PM ---if piracy was that much of an issue, i`d sue god for granting the possibility of having an identical copy of living creatures, including plants and animals.

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You won't win because you don't own or have rights to the originals


--- Quote from: kitamesume on May 11, 2011, 05:08:01 PM ---so why dont people sue their doppelgangers or twin because of pirating their faces? or sue people that copies your hairstyle? its because piracy has been people's way of living.

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Can you prove that you have the original face? or hairstyle?

You can sue anyone but how do you prove your claims?

rostheferret:
One obvious answer yet to be mentioned is to reduce the budgets. A big budget doesn't make a good film, a good idea and direction does that. Certainly there's a cut off point, but take a look at Miike or Shane Meadows whose vast bodies of work cost less than a million to make. Clerks is known as being amongst the great comedies and was funded largely by an insurance payout when Jay trashed Bobs car. Hollywood's the only one really bitching about piracy and they're also the only ones spend ridiculous amounts on films that often aren't particularly good. Transformers 3? Battle: LA? PotC 4? I mean really? They're not losing their money because people are pirating rather than buying, they're losing it because people pirate it, discover it's shit and don't feel like throwing their money away.

CAMs are universally shite. People who actually care about films would either fork out the extortionate price for a cinema ticket or wait for a DVD release. If they're actually excited about the film, the former usually beats out the wait for the latter. If its a good film, then why wouldn't someone pay for a legit version so they can watch it another time?

That said, I'm not entirely pro-piracy either. I'm pro "try before you buy." You wouldn't buy a car without test driving it; wouldn't buy a bed without sitting on it. Why am I blindfolded when it comes to film? Its a music model I've been pushing for years; a free listen for a limited duration or limited number of times before it asks you to cough up (assuming its actually been released in that country). The beauty of this is that nobody will buy music they will never listen to again, and the actual talent - the ones chosen by a majority and not media bigwigs pushing artists using money and connections - will slowly rise to the top. I don't see why it wouldn't work for films though. Most of my collection was racked up from buying stuff I'd initially downloaded. The problem is those that are completely 'pro-piracy,' which I can't agree with as from there its a slippery slope to never buying anything, and If I'd spent a year working I'd be pissed at not getting paid too.

Takeshi:

--- Quote from: Garret02 on May 11, 2011, 01:06:50 PM ---Hey, The Expendables is a good movie. Seriously, I don't get why people don't like it. It's exactly how it is suppose to be. And it wasn't that hard to understand what they were saying and this comes from someone who isn't native english speaker.

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1+ (haters gonna hate)

I saw it in cinema with a friend, but I do think I ended up downloading it as well. Though from a private tracker with SSL Encryption and Protocol Encryption. Not sure just how much it hides me.

Stsin:
I tend to select movies by the number of times they are snatched.  Don't have to the time to read up each IMDB/tomato review.  And just like my anime collection, The majority of it is unwatched.  I'm not worried though, since I don't use public trackers (and prefer ssl torrents to get by my ISP throttling P2P).

Seriously, they've been harassing leechers for a long while already.  Though usually just sending warnings to their ISP.  The Music industry has been suing hundreds each month.  It's the same thing.  Just that this is made to be more noticeable.

While they are doing this partially for the money, I assume the main reason is to curb the general public from leeching without thought.  Reminding them that can be caught.  While the low minority of knowledgeable folks will just use less trackable means.  Like private trackers/forums to something that's been around before the Web: Usenet.  I see it as another reminder as the general public has forgotten the risks.  There's a reason why scene groups keep asking not to release their stuff on public trackers.

btw, I'm not going to fool myself by saying that I'm not taking money from them.  Of course we all are.  But the value is no where near what they claim.  I still go to the movies, but more for the social aspect of going with friends than the movie itself.

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