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Posted 16 November 2004 - 06:38 PM

Movie studios start suing Web file swappers

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LOS ANGELES, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Hollywood film studios filed suit against online video file swappers in federal courts across the United States on Tuesday, making good on a promise to punish computer users they claim are violating copyright laws.

The move against people who copy and trade illegal copies of movies and TV shows is part of broad effort by the industry's chief lobbying group to stem copyright piracy it says costs studios billions of dollars annually.

A Motion Picture Association of America spokesman said suits were filed across a broad spectrum of the United States, but declined to say how many.

Earlier this month, when the MPAA announced it would begin filing individual "John Doe" lawsuits, the number of expected suits was widely reported to be in the hundreds.


The film industry is using the "John Doe" method, identifying swappers by numerical Internet addresses, because an earlier court ruling said Internet service providers did not have to provide names of their customers.


The MPAA said illegal file swapping could cost a person found guilty up to $30,000 in fines for each film.


The music industry has sued more than 5,000 people in their efforts to stem illegal downloading, copying and sharing of digital music files online via peer-to-peer, or P2P, networks.


The movie industry has been slower to use the courts than the music industry. Films and TV shows require huge digital files that take a long time to download, and few consumer homes have the necessary high-speed hardware.


However, as more broadband cable and telephone lines are installed to households, the threat increases. Already, the MPAA claims that illegal copying of videotapes and DVDs for sale in black markets worldwide costs it more than $3.5 billion annually.





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Posted 16 November 2004 - 07:32 PM

If someone takes the necessary number of days online to download "American Pie 2" They deserve jail time.

But, really, these guys are just being total pricks. If this stuff hurt them so much they'd be out of business already. I can't believe their audacity in demanding such insane ammounts of money for watching their movies. Last I checked a theatre ticked didn't cost 30000 dollars. Bastards.

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Posted 16 November 2004 - 08:01 PM

well see if they didn't make such things so damn expensive then people wouldn't be taking it from the internet to watch for free!!!! so like duh lower your damn prices! you damn conartists, and they call us the cons for stealing their shit, I say they are just money hungry pigs, and personally if it was stolen then it wasn't protected well enough anyways and they just should use their money for other things besides buying themselves a new car or home..but do not think I steal stuff online I have no damn sound~L~ so its pointless, but I do not think those that do it are wrong ~shrugs~ anyways peace

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Posted 16 November 2004 - 08:14 PM

It's not as if movies or music are material things. If I steal a box of spaghetti and eat it than that spaghetti can no longer be sold and must be replaced.

If I download apocalypse now though than it dosn't hurt anyone because it's not really in any material form. It dosn't cost the movie industry a dime when someone downloads something. Like Imoen said they're just being greedy. And really, suing a bunch of college kids for watching movies is the height of capitalist insensitivity to the working class.

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Posted 16 November 2004 - 10:21 PM

You can't pay people $8.50 an hour to work retail and then expect them to spend $12 to see your lousy movies. That's the bottom line.

The corporations are running scared.

I wonder what'll happen when the execs realize all these lawsuits aren't earning them any money, since most kids don't have the $30k and will just file for bankruptcy instead?

Execs: Shit! All that money we spent on lawyers! Ok, movie tix now cost $15! That'll fix it!

Dummies.

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Posted 17 November 2004 - 09:50 PM

I'm a nip this over to the movie forums, seeing as how it's dealing directly with movies.
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Posted 17 November 2004 - 11:37 PM

Yeah, you can't put a price on 1s and 0s. Greedy bastards.

You've already made my points again. The reason they are losing money is by spending the effort to file thousands of individual law suits against people who download movies and music.

Oh, in a high bandwidth area, it only takes a few minutes to get a film in mpg form. Of course, they are so huge that most people don't leave them lying around on their hard drives when they are done watching them.

In short: MPAA/RIAA = greedy corporate assholes.
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