It appears the MPAA is looking for special treatment when it comes to breaking the law. They want their hired rats to be able to lie about their identities when trying to bust internet pirates. We get the story today from
The MPAA wants to be exempted from a proposed California law that would bar anyone from making false statements in order to get personal information about Internet users. Saturday’s Los Angeles Times reported that the MPAA, joined by the recording industry’s RIAA, said that it is sometimes necessary for its investigators to use subterfuge in order to gain information about online pirates — for example, by pretending to be potential accomplices. Without such an exemption, the MPAA argued, the law would “prevent MPAA’s anti-piracy department and contract investigators, who gather evidence to bring legal actions against criminals who counterfeit and steal motion pictures and other works, from employing certain long-employed techniques to obtain information.”
This is hilarious. If someone in Utah downloads mormon avenger 8 – they call them a criminal and want them in jail. But when they break the law, they feel they are fighting the forces of evil and the ends justify the means. The MPAA wants to be above the law like 007, which is bullshit – because it is a business. Business is already about as unethical as you can get, the last thing we want them to have is a green light to lie about identity.
Once again, rather than inventing new avenues for people to get media the way they want it (downloading) they simply recoil in anger and start looking for new and better ways to give the common folk criminal records. It is the common folk that bought the bricks of their castles, you think they would want to welcome dialog rather that cook up new methods of entrapment for people that in the end; are fans of their work.
Here is some homework for you International friends. If you date a daughter of someone in the MPAA, lie about your name – and get her pregnant. We will win this war, one bastard baby at a time!
I must add that Doug’s piece of text was very well written as well! I hope the damn stupid MPAA aren’t allowed to go through with this!!! :-/
That was a great post Ash1138!! I totally agree with you and Doug Navy! Well written Ash1138!!!
Once again we all get to see how rediculous these MPAA guys are, what you are asking to do is entrapment. There is no way in hell they would be allowed to do this, and they are retarded for even asking.
Nord
“The more you tighten your grip Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.” Apparently the MPAA doesn’t watch movies. They just like to sue people who do.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the movie industry used to have a simple revenue stream. They’d make a movie. It would play in theaters for a time, and they would generate revenue based on how popular was (ie how many tickets were sold). And the world was good.
Then later cable TV service brought forth new revenue generators such as premium channels (HBO) and pay-per-view. Now films could potentially bring in even more money. But it was not long until the advent of VCR where the movie industry would begin to see how they could really profit off of intellectual property they had already sold. Video Cassettes allowed the movie industry to re-sell you something for a handsome price (initial costs were around $100.00) you had already bought.
But people realized they were being ripped off and being taken advantage of so they rebelled. Most people used the new technology to record movies, and movie piracy was born!
However, the Empire struck back with the advent of the DVD; a new medium with superior picture quality and irresistable special features. Even though you paid to see a film in theaters, paid your cable bill to have access to movies on TV, and then paid to own copies of films you really liked on video cassette, now you were compelled to pay yet again for the same intellectual property. As the success of DVD went through the roof, the film industry learned that people who owned movies on video could be coerced to buy the film again on DVD if the disc had special features. Since most early DVD’s had little to no special features, they soon realized this tactic would effect work on early adopters as well, and DVD double-dipping was born!
The massive success of DVD proves beyond doubt that people are more than willing to pay for movies. The widespread amount of piracy shows that people are willing to break the law and steal rather than get screwed by a greedy industry that has been screwing them for far too long.
Paying multiple times for the same movie is stupid. The movie industry never needed that before, and they thrived! The movie industry makes more money than ever and yet they continue to nickle and dime as much out of us as possible. On top of that they fail to deliver product we’re willing to pay for in regions we need it delivered. Whether a film is simply not available in my country or the film isn’t in the format I want (ie digital download), the point is if the movie industry isn’t supplying it and at a reasonable price, someone else is.
Yay!
Another pro-piracy post to go with today’s anti-artist post.
Way to support the movie industry guys!
Mormon Avenger 8 is my favorite! Way better than MA 7.
“Business is already about as unethical as you can get”
Never a truer word spoken. The main problem with the MPAA seems to be that they are actually deluded enough to think that they can stop piracy completely, eventually, and they’ll do whatever ludicrous things they can to achieve it.
Hahaha that last para’s genius – liquid Nagy!