Posted on 04/23/2005 3:59:31 PM PDT by Mike Bates
The Internet appears to be ready for its close-up, but you may want to decline any invitations to join a prerelease party.
A file swapper who distributes a single copy of a prerelease movie on the Internet would face a possible prison sentence of up to three years, if a bill approved this week by Congress becomes law, as expected. Adoption of the bill would represent the most dramatic expansion of online piracy penalties in years.
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Mike Bates wrote:
Some Star Wars fans will be disappointed.
--> How about the hard core porners? they will be devistated i bet LOL
Please, don't kick me when I'm down.
Wormwood wrote:
Please, don't kick me when I'm down.
--> No worries, that's what hollywood is for. They will kick you hard when your down and then sue the pants off you. You will be assimilated, how ever assimilated is spelled. :)
....but let child-molestors go free.
I'm still waiting.
That's why I'm ripping off Hollywood *right now*, and I'll sleep like a baby tonight.
This is SOOOOO 20th Century.
Do they think they can stop this?
Do they think they can outwit the entire world?
They only have to fail once, and it's all over.
I don't know where the hack will come from, San Jose, Bulgaria or Beijing. It won't matter. Anything they do will be circumvented and the "intellectual property" will be out there quicker than they can blink.
They'll nab a few poor shlubs making dupes and prosecute. They will universely be viewed as being proscuted for being stupid enough to get caught. This is a very darwinian process and the feds are viewed as simply a force of nature, not an arbiter of right or wrong.
This is the wrong way to go to protect intellectual property rights.
Wormwood wrote:
I've always said that I will gladly pay a premium for quality product.
I'm still waiting.
That's why I'm ripping off Hollywood *right now*, and I'll sleep like a baby tonight.
--> You Jerk! /Sarc Every Hollywood product is THE BEST ever! Don't every question the quality/SARC :)
You just spend the $$ on crappy product so the next Madonna and Britnney spears can blow it on ferraris and mansions while you sleep in that little cardboard box :)
I'm with you on quality! !
This is the wrong way to go to protect intellectual property rights.
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What is the right way to go to protect intellectual property rights ???
Ummmmm..... Make the works available at a price that make piracy no longer profitable?
I have very little sympathy for drugged out performers who make millions from CDs. I have NO sympathy for drugged out Hollywierd producers who make millions from signing a piece of paper with drugged out performers who then crank out CDs for their betters.
I want to protect the intellectual property rights of those who create a new work of literature, music, film, etc. I don't want to protect the grotesque profits (funneled into anti-US propoganda) of the leeches and hangers on who make their livings off of the creative community.
The music on a "best selling" CD should be worth about $1, in toto. Producing, distributing and advertising that CD (if you want it on that medium, pre-printed) should be worth something like $2. We now have a disparity between "right price" and "charged price" of about $14. Michael Geffen and Michael Jackson need to work out those issues, not me.
"Ummmmm..... Make the works available at a price that make piracy no longer profitable? "
Super Target near me has an small three row aisle they call the $1 spot. Everything there is one dollar. They routinley carry CDs from new artists breaking in to the biz and some classical stuff also a few DVDs mostly older stuff. Everytime I go in there I buy 1 of everything they have. I don't even look just grab a bunch. I usually walk out with 10 or so CD's My keep rate is probably around %30 but I enjoy them all and pass the others on.
but I enjoy them all and pass the others on.
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What? What? You pass the others on? Surely that must make you... or the others... or both... freekin sneekin Pie Rats !!! ;-))
The music on a "best selling" CD should be worth about $1, in toto.
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Hence these music sites that sell 'em for $1 (oops, .99 cents) per song are still WAY OVERBOARD. But they seem to be selling 'em like crazy. Go figure !!! ;-))
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