Comments on: Bloomberg Hammers Down On Pirates

By: Tratoria56

Tratoria56 — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:50:12 +0000

I look at the cam movies as an extended preview of the movie, if the movie is worth seeing like The Shooter, then I’m off to see it on the big screen as well. If the cam movie is rubbish like Babel, then I’m glad I didn’t waste my money, time, petrol etc. and the huge entrance price on seeing a load of crap.
If stars like Brad and Angelina only make $18M instead of $21M every six months, I guess I can live with it.

By: Nord

Nord — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:02:49 +0000

The industry is so rediculous it hurts my brain to have to explain it to them.

This “cam” piracy is not where they are losing the money. If you are the type to accept the absolute shitty quality you get with a cam version, then you are not the type of person who spends money in theaters PERIOD! this is not money lost, this is money the industry would have never seen in the first place.

If a box of snikers is shipped to 7-11 and lets say it falls off the truck and is run over 10 times before the delivery guy can retrive it, so its ruined and he throws it in the garbage. Then some dude pulls it out of the garbage, all raty and shit, and sells it for 0.50 cents on the street corner. Snickers is not losing money, buying a shitty snickers from some sketchy dude on the street corner is not taking money away from the 7-11 or Snickers, who ever bought that shity snickers would never have spent the extra 0.50 cents in the 7-11 in the first place.

The real piracy occurs when a factory employee from the DVD manufactures steals a DVD and uploads it on the net 3 weeks before its release date. thats where the money is lost. Stop bullshitting us with this cam shit.

Nord

By: Rafael

Rafael — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:58:57 +0000

Maybe the studio heads will see that there is demand for watching movies at home the instant they come out in the theaters. The instant this idea gets implemented then maybe piracy would go down. Better to make some money than no money.

Oops did I open a can of worms?

By: Terry Letourneau

Terry Letourneau — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:52:26 +0000

Hey Doug, you’re right about theater employees. It’s pretty easy for a projectionist to set up a camera next to the projector and aim it out the little window above the audience and maybe hook up the audio directly into the camera.

By: Where a i ?

Where a i ? — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:38:47 +0000

Go a head and make it 6 years bitches. You’ll never stop us

By: Kristina

Kristina — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:37:04 +0000

I’m sorry, but 6 months is too harsh, especially considering the ridiculously light sentences that people get for worse crimes. I know piracy is illegal, but this is ridiculous.