Just when you thought it couldn't get worse!

[Duo Maxwell]

http://news.com.com/Prison%20terms%20on%20tap%20for%20prerelease%20pirates/2100-1028_3-5677232.html?tag=techdirt

and http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&ncid=528&e=5&u=/ap/20050419/ap_on_go_co/sanitizing_hollywood

P.S. I'm back beetches

[Annorax]

Video theft hurts taxpayers, it hurts consumers, it hurts the creative process and it hurts the hundreds of thousands of people who work hard each day to make the magic of the movies,

BULL SHIT.

Video theft doesn't hurt the taxpayers... that is, unless you count the massive tax cuts the studios are getting no matter what they do.

Video theft doesn't hurt consumers... pirates aren't stealing the copies of movies they've purchased.

Video theft doesn't hurt the creative process... just how the hell can this one be justified at all, even using the pidgin lawyerese the MPAA likes to use all the time?

Video theft doesn't hurt hundreds of thousands of people... it doesn't even hurt the bottom line of the studios because the majority of the people who download movies and music WOULD NOT BUY IT ANYWAY, SO THERE ARE  NO LOST SALES TO BITCH AND SUE OVER.

[size=72]FUCK YOU, DAN COCKMAN. FUCK YOU, JACK VALENTI. FUCK YOU, MPAA.[/size] Need I go on?

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[skyman8081]

If a person who downloads something doesn't want to pay for something, why should the makers of it be obliged to allow them to see/hear it anyway, without paying?  Especially if somebody who does like it is willing to pay.

Yeah, I can see who gets the ass end of that deal. Pirating a movie is like jumping another mans ass without so much as the courtesy of a reach-around.

[choasforages]

ummmmm, if i don't like it i don't buy it. if i like it, typicaly im a fan of it, and purchase merchandise that i can't really fucking pirate.

im not a fan of lawyers, unless your the kind that steps up and trys to defend my currently crappy driving record, in that case, feel free to be my bestest friend

[Annorax]

If a person who downloads something doesn't want to pay for something, why should the makers of it be obliged to allow them to see/hear it anyway, without paying?  Especially if somebody who does like it is willing to pay.

Yeah, I can see who gets the ass end of that deal. Pirating a movie is like jumping another mans ass without so much as the courtesy of a reach-around.

Perhaps people want to find out what it's like before buying it. When was the last time you bought a movie/song/program blind?

[skyman8081]

so then, they would end up buying it.

[Orethrius]

so then, they would end up buying it.

Oh yes, I've never had cause to NOT buy something after using the trial version.  Get real.  :p