Correspondent:: modemac@modemac.com (Modemac)
Date: 5 Nov 2004 04:24:53 -0800
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Source: Internet Movie Database
"The MPAA warned Wednesday that anyone who uploads a movie onto the
Internet to share with users of peer-to-peer networks may face the
same kind of copyright infringement lawsuit that the music industry
has brought against record pirates. Published reports said that the
MPAA is expected to file its first lawsuits as early as today
(Thursday). The move follows a campaign by the movie industry to
discourage online piracy with MTV-type video announcements in movie
theaters comparing it to shoplifting videos in a store. Still, Eric
Garland, head of Big Champagne, an Internet company that monitors
movie downloading, suggested that the problem might be exaggerated. In
an interview with today's Los Angeles Times, Garland said: 'Most
people won't even know of anyone who has used the Internet to download
Hollywood fare without permission, much less do it themselves. ...
This is truly an extremely early-adopter fringe activity.'"
Correspondent:: Zapanaz Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 08:25:32 -0800
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On 5 Nov 2004 04:24:53 -0800, modemac@modemac.com (Modemac) wrote:
>Source: Internet Movie Database
>
>"The MPAA warned Wednesday that anyone who uploads a movie onto the
>Internet to share with users of peer-to-peer networks may face the
>same kind of copyright infringement lawsuit that the music industry
>has brought against record pirates. Published reports said that the
>MPAA is expected to file its first lawsuits as early as today
>(Thursday). The move follows a campaign by the movie industry to
>discourage online piracy with MTV-type video announcements in movie
>theaters comparing it to shoplifting videos in a store. Still, Eric
>Garland, head of Big Champagne, an Internet company that monitors
>movie downloading, suggested that the problem might be exaggerated. In
>an interview with today's Los Angeles Times, Garland said: 'Most
>people won't even know of anyone who has used the Internet to download
>Hollywood fare without permission, much less do it themselves. ...
>This is truly an extremely early-adopter fringe activity.'"
Well heck, what a good idea!
When television first started proliferating in the fifties it hurt the
movie studios badly, a lot of large old studios went bankrupt. The
fools, they should have just sued people for watching TV!
That's how you deal with a new technology and accompanying changes to
your market's demands! Stop it from happening! That damned
technology!
For that matter, Ned Ludd could have saved himself a lot of trouble by
just suing people for wearing clothes produced by automation.
--
Zapanaz
International Satanic Conspiracy
Customer Support Specialist
http://joecosby.com/
If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come
and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell
you.
- Jack Handey
Correspondent:: "Mark W" Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:20:43 -0000
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>
> That's how you deal with a new technology and accompanying changes to
> your market's demands! Stop it from happening! That damned
> technology!
>
> For that matter, Ned Ludd could have saved himself a lot of trouble by
> just suing people for wearing clothes produced by automation.
>
>
>
> --
Banks could simply sue bank robbers instead of calling the Police!
Correspondent:: "Paul E. Jamison" Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:20:05 -0600
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"Mark W" wrote in message
news:418bc478$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
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> > That's how you deal with a new technology and accompanying changes to
> > your market's demands! Stop it from happening! That damned
> > technology!
> >
> > For that matter, Ned Ludd could have saved himself a lot of trouble by
> > just suing people for wearing clothes produced by automation.
> >
> Banks could simply sue bank robbers instead of calling the Police!
>
Oh, dear, this is starting to sound positively Libertarian.
Paul
Correspondent:: Mutley Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:12:53 +1300
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modemac@modemac.com (Modemac) wrote:
>Source: Internet Movie Database
>
>"The MPAA warned Wednesday that anyone who uploads a movie onto the
>Internet to share with users of peer-to-peer networks may face the
>same kind of copyright infringement lawsuit that the music industry
>has brought against record pirates. Published reports said that the
>MPAA is expected to file its first lawsuits as early as today
>(Thursday). The move follows a campaign by the movie industry to
>discourage online piracy with MTV-type video announcements in movie
>theaters comparing it to shoplifting videos in a store. Still, Eric
>Garland, head of Big Champagne, an Internet company that monitors
>movie downloading, suggested that the problem might be exaggerated. In
>an interview with today's Los Angeles Times, Garland said: 'Most
>people won't even know of anyone who has used the Internet to download
>Hollywood fare without permission, much less do it themselves. ...
>This is truly an extremely early-adopter fringe activity.'"
Bush another 4 years and the MPAA is jumping for joy. 4 Mores years
to do what we like and the GVT won't interfere and we can bribe some
Republican senators and get all sorts of new draconian laws passed in
the name of IP and copy right protection..
Correspondent:: nikolai kingsley Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 02:03:38 +1100
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> "The MPAA warned Wednesday that anyone who uploads a movie onto the
> Internet to share with users of peer-to-peer networks may face the
> same kind of copyright infringement lawsuit that the music industry
> has brought against record pirates.
dang. looks like it's back to swapping files via email again. ;/
Correspondent:: charlize_sand@yahoo.com (charsand)
Date: 8 Nov 2004 07:04:28 -0800
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nikolai kingsley wrote in message news:<2v47aaF2hf4jjU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> > "The MPAA warned Wednesday that anyone who uploads a movie onto the
> > Internet to share with users of peer-to-peer networks may face the
> > same kind of copyright infringement lawsuit that the music industry
> > has brought against record pirates.
>
>
> dang. looks like it's back to swapping files via email again. ;/
I read this last week too in the Hollywood Reporter. What type of
punishments do you think will be implemented?
Correspondent:: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)
Date: 9 Nov 2004 08:24:10 -0800
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charlize_sand@yahoo.com (charsand) wrote in message news:<814996b8.0411080704.48c34bbf@posting.google.com>...
> I read this last week too in the Hollywood Reporter. What type of
> punishments do you think will be implemented?
Hundreds-to-$1000 fine per instance, removal of ISP service from
whomever you were using at the time and perhaps even some draconian
spyware requirement for X number of months/years as a form of digital
house arrest.
To me, as a potential CD seller semi-soon, its a mixed issue. The
RIAA and MPAA certainly push real crap on us all, but the GOOD stuff
is in there as well. Their greedy, clumsy business practices are easy
to hate and their general lack of aesthetic sense is legendary. OTOH,
I DO buy a few CDs retail here & there and can't help but sympathize
with the people who CREATE the goods, as opposed to the pure-d assoul
fuckers who promote it with a side order of FUCK YOU.
I am also surprised at how much some seem to rip for the seeming sake
of simply HAVING these things and "getting over on The Man." Its not
just the content; its the act of "revenge" against A & R men and their
slimy ilk. Unh?
The smartest move is to do as Janis Ian did and circumvent the system
by selling your goods from a website, of course; its the model to
follow for any independent who wants their work to be seen/heard for
real. In addition, I will not mind a certain number of people having
part or all of what I am near offering gratis, for several reasons.
However, I DO need to make SOME money from it and excessive p-to-p
would/will deny me the bucks to buy new tires and a little more music
equipment so I can do more and better. Its pretty hard to speak of
letting the market find its own levels if the process is going to be
butt-raped in its infancy with any new offering. So I dunno. Ya still
gotta DO, regardless or just watch Spike TV and take bets on your
first tumor.
Still, I couldn't help but scratch my head when a guy at the
Halloween party I just attended was watching a blurry rip of "Saw" a
week before it was released and proclaiming it "garbage." I am Huey,
hear me get stuck in an illogic loop, nur nur nur nur nur..... so
what's the answer? NUKES LOTS AND LOTS OF NUKES BOOM!
--
HellPope Huey
I'm rubber and you're glue...
what the hell did we EAT, anyway?
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority,
but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"I feel like someone opened my head
and poured in hot nickels."
- "Dharma & Greg"
Correspondent:: "ArWeGod" Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:00:58 GMT
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"nikolai kingsley" wrote in message
news:2v47aaF2hf4jjU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> > "The MPAA warned Wednesday that anyone who uploads a movie onto the
> > Internet to share with users of peer-to-peer networks may face the
> > same kind of copyright infringement lawsuit that the music industry
> > has brought against record pirates.
>
> dang. looks like it's back to swapping files via email again. ;/
>
So let us all do it!!! Where is this Internet thingy I need to load up
to....?
I have a bunch of movies; me in the back yard, the dogs playing, that
BBQ with all my coworkers that ended with the police coming...