1 in 4 on Web Are Movie Pirates

[Lazy8s]

kinda makes you wonder how many ppl doing the study are on the internet. Would be a helluva funny headlind that read:
"1 in 4 people who wrote this article about computer piracy DL illeagly themselves."

or how about:

"1 in 4 music artists whining about illegal downloads actually DL the music of other artists"

 

[DeeKnow]

Originally posted by: leeland
I am a little jaded at the movie companies that pay 20 + million dollars to a single actor just because they are in some eyes supposed to be the bomb...IMHO that is one of the reasons that ticket prices at the movies are through the roof...like someone else pointed out...all the rehashing of old scripts is just getting lame...just the same thing over and over again...I have downloaded a movie here and there and if I did like the movie enough I did actually go out and purchase the DVD from a blockbuster that is used.

To me it is just like baseball and the retarded salaries of chumps who are overrated but still somehow get the big bucks when they suck...and then complain and hold out because someone else is getting more money..

that doesn't make any sense at all... nobody pays an actor $20 mil from a misguided sense of their importance ... its simple economics. You pay $20 mil because you think his/her name and performance is going to pull in several multiples of that $20 mil in revenue... for the same reason the spotboy probably only makes min wage...

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Freejack2
We went to see Spiderman 2 last night. Cost us $14.50 for the two of us, (had to use the premiere passes as the movie is restricted until the 14th, otherwise we would have paid $13 to get in)

It was worth it though. The screen was beautiful and the sound was fantastic. Yeah there were some morons who didn't turn off their pagers or cell phones but it's usually drowned out by the movie.

We enjoyed a nice movie and had a late dinner afterwards. All in all a nice night out with the wife.


If we decided to download the movie as some people here seem to do we would have been sitting home squinting our eyes at some crappy video trying to hear what was being said. Some night that would have been.
I think the MPAA is make a big ado over nothing. Let people download their crappy versions of movies. I'll stick to the seeing it on the big screen or spending $2 to rent a dvd.

Agreed. I love going to a theatre to see a good movie. There's nothing like seeing a good flick on a huge digital screen with amazing theatre surround sound. IMO, well worth the price.

Although, I really think the MPAA is more worried about people downloading DVD ripped movies, even if they won't admit it. And you don't have to watch these things on a monitor with computer speakers, either, with video cards having TV output. You can get a $3 cord that plugs your sound card into a stereo receiver.

Who knows how many people out there have a stockpile of dvd rips, on networked computers, all sending these .avi's to a computer within their entertainment center? Talk about video on demand, they got Time Warner beat out.

If anything, piracy has done well for ISP's, makers of hard drives and optical media.

 

[dejacky]

the MPAA released a study Thursday indicating that nearly a quarter of Internet users worldwide have illegally downloaded a movie and that 17% of those who have done so are spending less to consume movies through legitimate means.

this is another Bull$!t fear-tactic with regards to "piracy." how do they know this? hmm a legitmate "study" among scholars eh? I'm sure they legally scan everyone's hard drive and then LEGALLY look at their bank account purchases/credit/debits to conclude this.. Oh no, that would be an illegal invasion of privacy so they used "advanced statistical" models that are allegedly accurate to determine this conclusion---> too many people are pirating..."We as an industry are losing money, and especially us middlemen who have been unjustly profiting on crappy overpriced music and movie sales. We want our profits that we used to get from forcing people to buy overpriced sh!tty media. Now that they have a choice on what to buy and are better able to get it, it's not fair that they don't give us money for what we think is in our best interest." :roll: