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Cairnsman
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roadwalker
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| You forgot the Prime Directive, Cairnsman: China bad, America good. |
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Mydnight
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Cairnsman.
Must be some Chinese dude in Yangshuo, I guess. |
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The Great Wall of Whiner
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Oh, please. It's not censorship, it's protecting an industry and keeping money in the economy it was stolen from. If I spend millions on a recording studio, pay millions to four young lads from Liverpool to write and record songs in that studio, spend millions more to mass produce CD's and promote them, and then someone turns around and copy the songs and sell them, that someone is making money off of the work of others. And when pirating companies do pirating, it's called THEFT.
Or if I start making Adidos or Niike or Reeback running shoes.
Just like if I made a Deve's ESL Cafe or a Dove's ESL Cafe or a Duve's ESL Cafe it's theft of someone else's idea.
Yes, it's nice to have 8 yuan DVD's, but it won't be so nice in 20 years when all those awesome movies disappear because only low-budget c.rap is being produced. |
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Mydnight
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GWOW.
The MPAA made billions of dollars last year in profits from advertisments alone. Nobody really considers box office that serious; although, Harry Potter 7/2 made more than a billion or something, right? Perhaps it is theft to download movies (I don't buy the 8 yuan DVDs), but I also think it's theft to have to pay more than 10 bucks to sit in a cinema back home.
The RIAA ain't hurting either. |
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Opiate
Joined: 10 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Mydnight wrote: |
GWOW.
The MPAA made billions of dollars last year in profits from advertisments alone. Nobody really considers box office that serious; although, Harry Potter 7/2 made more than a billion or something, right? Perhaps it is theft to download movies (I don't buy the 8 yuan DVDs), but I also think it's theft to have to pay more than 10 bucks to sit in a cinema back home.
The RIAA ain't hurting either. |
Profits for the RIAA/MPAA have been climbing and so has piracy. Clearly piracy killed the music and movie industries in the U.S.......oh wait....what?
PS - It's not theft to download a movie/CD. If you actually steal a movie/CD your penalty is next to nothing. If you download it, you can face retarded fines. 80K per song with zero proof the song was shared in it's entirety with a single person? You bet!! They (RIAA) try and extort......err..I mean sue dead people and 6 year old kids. Sounds reasonable to me!!!!!!
Another side note..going after the real pirates, the ones who actually stamp and distribute albums and movies is fine by me since they are turning a profit off the backs of others. Closing them down has had a proven ability to increase the sales of legitimate media. Mass lawsuits can not be shown to have any impact at all. Not even a tiny one. It's simply a money grab which is backed by the judicial system.
To the topic...SOPA has been kicked around for a fair bit of time before it's current incarnation. It will not pass. I don't think it's even meant to pass. It will however rear it's ugly head again under a new name and it will pass eventually...because it's not as bad as SOPA. Promise. |
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ryan1981
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Wikipedia just joined the growing number of websites to go offline in protest of SOPA. Now if Google would just get on board maybe we (the people) might have a chance.
This is really an extremely dangerous piece of legislation. If you're a US citizen I suggest you write to your senator stating your objection to this bill. http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm |
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The Great Wall of Whiner
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| Mydnight wrote: |
GWOW.
The MPAA made billions of dollars last year in profits from advertisments alone. |
Is that a problem? Are they not allowed to make billions of dollars?
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| but I also think it's theft to have to pay more than 10 bucks to sit in a cinema back home. |
No one is forcing you to pay 10 bucks to sit in a cinema back home. If you can't wait a few years until it's on TV, that's not J.K. Rowling's problem. |
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