• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

movie industry suing people for illegal downloading

LtPage1

LtPage1

Diamond Member
my local paper (Sacramento Bee) printed a story today about how the film industry is going to start suing people for downloading illegally, like the music industry.
anyone know how theyre going to find people? the article mentioned the software that was mentioned on ATOT a few days ago, where you can scan your hard drive to find and report illegal files.

is bittorrent safe?
 
BT is not safe... the problem is the people they are suing wont solve the problem... the only way to hurt piracy is get the release groups and they keep themselves protected.
 
Originally posted by: LtPage1
my local paper (Sacramento Bee) printed a story today about how the film industry is going to start suing people for downloading illegally, like the music industry.
anyone know how theyre going to find people? the article mentioned the software that was mentioned on ATOT a few days ago, where you can scan your hard drive to find and report illegal files.

is bittorrent safe?
Click to expand...

yes it's safe but you have to upload as fast as you can. If you upload fast enough, they'll be too slow to catch you
 
Originally posted by: arod
BT is not safe... the problem is the people they are suing wont solve the problem... the only way to hurt piracy is get the release groups and they keep themselves protected.
Click to expand...

Actually, offering legitmate services worthy of my hard-earned money is what will do it if anything..that or a police state.

Look at itunes. I know drows of people who used to pirate music who now gladly pay for it via itunes.

The problem is that most of the the people running the show for these antagonistic companies are greedy little bitches, not to mention close-minded fools.

The ones who hit it big are the smart business men that realize that people WILL pay if they feel that they are getting their money's worth.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: arod
BT is not safe... the problem is the people they are suing wont solve the problem... the only way to hurt piracy is get the release groups and they keep themselves protected.
Click to expand...

Actually, offering legitmate services worthy of my hard-earned money is what will do it if anything..that or a police state.

Look at itunes. I know drows of people who used to pirate music who now gladly pay for it via itunes.

The problem is that most of the the people running the show for these antagonistic companies are greedy little bitches, not to mention close-minded fools.

The ones who hit it big are the smart business men that realize that people WILL pay if they feel that they are getting their money's worth.
Click to expand...

As far as I know, iTunes is a loss for Apple and it only helps to sell more iPods.
 
Originally posted by: pulse8
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: arod
BT is not safe... the problem is the people they are suing wont solve the problem... the only way to hurt piracy is get the release groups and they keep themselves protected.
Click to expand...

Actually, offering legitmate services worthy of my hard-earned money is what will do it if anything..that or a police state.

Look at itunes. I know drows of people who used to pirate music who now gladly pay for it via itunes.

The problem is that most of the the people running the show for these antagonistic companies are greedy little bitches, not to mention close-minded fools.

The ones who hit it big are the smart business men that realize that people WILL pay if they feel that they are getting their money's worth.
Click to expand...

As far as I know, iTunes is a loss for Apple and it only helps to sell more iPods.
Click to expand...

But the Ipods make it all profitable.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: pulse8
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: arod
BT is not safe... the problem is the people they are suing wont solve the problem... the only way to hurt piracy is get the release groups and they keep themselves protected.
Click to expand...

Actually, offering legitmate services worthy of my hard-earned money is what will do it if anything..that or a police state.

Look at itunes. I know drows of people who used to pirate music who now gladly pay for it via itunes.

The problem is that most of the the people running the show for these antagonistic companies are greedy little bitches, not to mention close-minded fools.

The ones who hit it big are the smart business men that realize that people WILL pay if they feel that they are getting their money's worth.
Click to expand...

As far as I know, iTunes is a loss for Apple and it only helps to sell more iPods.
Click to expand...

But the Ipods make it all profitable.
Click to expand...
yep, youre right.


damn. guess my suprnova bookmarks going to start gathering dust...
yeah. itunes should start selling movies- i gladly switched to itunes for music, id do it in a heartbeat for movies.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: pulse8
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: arod
BT is not safe... the problem is the people they are suing wont solve the problem... the only way to hurt piracy is get the release groups and they keep themselves protected.
Click to expand...

Actually, offering legitmate services worthy of my hard-earned money is what will do it if anything..that or a police state.

Look at itunes. I know drows of people who used to pirate music who now gladly pay for it via itunes.

The problem is that most of the the people running the show for these antagonistic companies are greedy little bitches, not to mention close-minded fools.

The ones who hit it big are the smart business men that realize that people WILL pay if they feel that they are getting their money's worth.
Click to expand...

As far as I know, iTunes is a loss for Apple and it only helps to sell more iPods.
Click to expand...

But the Ipods make it all profitable.
Click to expand...

So the movie studios should start making DVD players? That's just stupid.
 
Originally posted by: pulse8
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: pulse8
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: arod
BT is not safe... the problem is the people they are suing wont solve the problem... the only way to hurt piracy is get the release groups and they keep themselves protected.
Click to expand...

Actually, offering legitmate services worthy of my hard-earned money is what will do it if anything..that or a police state.

Look at itunes. I know drows of people who used to pirate music who now gladly pay for it via itunes.

The problem is that most of the the people running the show for these antagonistic companies are greedy little bitches, not to mention close-minded fools.

The ones who hit it big are the smart business men that realize that people WILL pay if they feel that they are getting their money's worth.
Click to expand...

As far as I know, iTunes is a loss for Apple and it only helps to sell more iPods.
Click to expand...

But the Ipods make it all profitable.
Click to expand...

So the movie studios should start making DVD players? That's just stupid.
Click to expand...

That was not my point. I was just informing him that apple has manged to profit from, altough indirectly, selling legal music downloads.

I did not mean that their itunes busness model was profitable and is the be all of the entertainment industry as it needs the ipod. I was merely attempting to point out the fact that people WILL buy if the price and the enviroment is right.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: pulse8
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: pulse8
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: arod
BT is not safe... the problem is the people they are suing wont solve the problem... the only way to hurt piracy is get the release groups and they keep themselves protected.
Click to expand...

Actually, offering legitmate services worthy of my hard-earned money is what will do it if anything..that or a police state.

Look at itunes. I know drows of people who used to pirate music who now gladly pay for it via itunes.

The problem is that most of the the people running the show for these antagonistic companies are greedy little bitches, not to mention close-minded fools.

The ones who hit it big are the smart business men that realize that people WILL pay if they feel that they are getting their money's worth.
Click to expand...

As far as I know, iTunes is a loss for Apple and it only helps to sell more iPods.
Click to expand...

But the Ipods make it all profitable.
Click to expand...

So the movie studios should start making DVD players? That's just stupid.
Click to expand...

That was not my point. I was just informing him that apple has manged to profit from, altough indirectly, selling legal music downloads.

I did not mean that their itunes busness model was profitable and is the be all of the entertainment industry as it needs the ipod. I was merely attempting to point out the fact that people WILL buy if the price and the enviroment is right.
Click to expand...

My point was that the price is NOT right from a business standpoint for the movie studios and that iTunes is a bad example for this because it is a loss for Apple without the iPod.
 
I too would sue if people were stealing my work product.

The sense of entitlement in this country is simply amazing to me.
 
Originally posted by: OMG1Penguin
Somehow I don't think the little people in the film industry are going to see a penny of the settlements.
Click to expand...

😕

Why would they? The companies own the rights (generally) to the fims.
 
Originally posted by: Gothgar
Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
Bittorrent was never safe to begin with.

- M4H
Click to expand...

Use a good firewall
Click to expand...
You still are not safe. We have a list of people here on campus who have been caught using everything from Kazaa to bittorrent

 
Sueing a bunch of poor people isn't going to solve their "problem".
It's just going to make a lot of people dislike their already poor product more.

Originally posted by: Amused
I too would sue if people were stealing my work product.

The sense of entitlement in this country is simply amazing to me.
Click to expand...
These threads are all the same, and you sound like a broken record in them.
I like how you never acknowledge that the idea of fair usage rights are being silently thrown out the door.
 
Originally posted by: pulse8
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: pulse8
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: arod
BT is not safe... the problem is the people they are suing wont solve the problem... the only way to hurt piracy is get the release groups and they keep themselves protected.
Click to expand...

Actually, offering legitmate services worthy of my hard-earned money is what will do it if anything..that or a police state.

Look at itunes. I know drows of people who used to pirate music who now gladly pay for it via itunes.

The problem is that most of the the people running the show for these antagonistic companies are greedy little bitches, not to mention close-minded fools.

The ones who hit it big are the smart business men that realize that people WILL pay if they feel that they are getting their money's worth.
Click to expand...

As far as I know, iTunes is a loss for Apple and it only helps to sell more iPods.
Click to expand...

But the Ipods make it all profitable.
Click to expand...

So the movie studios should start making DVD players? That's just stupid.
Click to expand...

Umm....Ever hear of a company called SONY?
 
Originally posted by: SampSon
Sueing a bunch of poor people isn't going to solve their "problem".
It's just going to make a lot of people dislike their already poor product more.

Originally posted by: Amused
I too would sue if people were stealing my work product.

The sense of entitlement in this country is simply amazing to me.
Click to expand...
These threads are all the same, and you sound like a broken record in them.
I like how you never acknowledge that the idea of fair usage rights are being silently thrown out the door.
Click to expand...

I don't see how "fair use" has any point in a thread about the blatant piracy of movies.

If the thread title was "F*** the MPAA/RIAA and the stupid laws that make it illegal to break CSS encryption to have an HD archive of my DVDs, and the copy protections etc..." then sure, you could raise a point about the defense of fair use.

- M4H
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top