No shock. The piracy fight has never been a fight over actual piracy. It's about establishing monopoly over media distribution. It's not as if they've hidden that fact.
uh no
it's about preventing the FREE distribution of media
free downloads don't pay residuals.
I know this is really hard for you guys to comprehend, but free is not a good business model once your production costs hits > 100MM
We dont need a middleman stuck in archaic methods of distribution. They didnt get with the times and then tried to punish the consumer for their mistakes.
When was the last time you watched a movie with no big names that wasn't promoted heavily on TV
You know, all those bullshit movies you see on Fox @ 3pm on a Saturday afternoon.
Never? Yeah, those are the kinds of movies that are made w/o big Hollywood studios. Guess what, NOBODY WANTS TO WATCH THAT SHIT.
People want to watch shit made with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt w/100MM budgets, and the studios deliver. The studios have a right, hell an OBLIGATION to protect their investment.
BTW, a certain title was made specifically for internet distribution, powered only by ad supported revenue. As of this writing, it's made about 200k after a year.
How much production do you think that can afford? How much advertising do you think that can afford?
Oh yeah, these middlemen that you hate so much create tens of thousands of jobs worldwide. Pirates most certainly don't fund our paychecks.
she should've settled
I'm not agreeing with individual damages (yes 60k is too much, $1 is too little), but something needs to be done to protect IP. What that is, I have no idea.
So, how about instead of making me (who buys stuff legally) jump through all these damn hoops to use the content I purchased legally? The best method I have found is Steam (for games). For movies/music/tv I have yet to find anything that satisfies me completely, but Netflix is about as close as they have gotten with online streaming.
The US government couldn't estimate their way out of a box.
The original cost of Medicare was $3 billion.
The government estimated that the cost in 1990 would be $12 billion.
In 1990 Medicare cost $107 billion or 792% more than the estimation.
Why would anyone listen to these government ass clowns?
healthcare is an ever increasingly expensive institution. People live longer, we develop new treatments every year, some are simply expensive.
HOLY SHIT! IT GOT MORE EXPENSIVE!!!!
The few ruin it for the many, and I would agree that Netflix is currently the best way to consume media online.
As soon as the big studios look after my rights, I'll look after theirs. Pummeling your way through the court room with lawyers, and bribing corrupt politicians isn't the way you look after my rights....
Just because you can't get something the way you want it doesn't give you the right to take it for free
Yea, to me it does. When they threaten with lawyers over something that's clearly within fair use terms, just to bully people without money into submission that gives me the right to fight with the resources available to me. When they bribe law makers into extending copyrights, yet again; that gives me the right to fight back with the resources available to me. I couldn't give a shit less about their "rights". I support artists, and people that takes my rights into account. The big studios can get fucked.