

Movie Still from IP Man 2
Illegal copyright violations plague the RIAA and MPAA, but issues remain












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RE: The word is DENIAL - look it up
By kraeper on 8/12/2011 5:06:07 PM , Rating: 2
In fact the U.S. and other countries are working on legislation to make piracy a felony with mandatory prison time.

No, the **AA (ie.. your employer) is spending millions lobbying in the US and other countries to make harsher penalties. The fact that they are wasting time paying forum/comment trolls reveals how far lost they really are. People don't have to be pirates to see how corrupt the **AA are. Quit over-charging for your easily-replicated products, and the incentive to not get ripped-off goes away. Start paying writers what you pay the CGI crew and you won't have to do prequels of sequels of reboots. Fire the lawyers, fire the DRM programmers and accept that some people will slip in the back of the theater, or go watch two movies after paying for one. This isn't new. No business in the world is immune to theft, but some figure out how to deal with it and move on, including businesses who lose physical goods when they are stolen from. Those businesses suffer *actual* monetary losses, not *theoretical* losses based on what the consumer MIGHT have paid multiplied by some random, large number. Others cry and cry and cry from their multi-million dollar mansions about how much money they're losing from people who wouldn't have paid anyway.

Innovate or die. Business has always been that way, and the **AA are dying from a lack of innovation, not piracy. And to make up a fantasy about movie downloaders going to jail while rapists walk the street isn't helping your public image any.

RE: The word is DENIAL - look it up
By betacat on 8/16/2011 5:30:55 PM , Rating: 2
And, if you and all the other freeloaders had actually paid for the legal rights to the content?

I know, I know. If you had to pay, you wouldn't have bought it, so ergo, no crime... even though you did flaunt the licensing set by the holder.

No ephemeral bits were harmed in the making of your infrigment.


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