The war against movie piracy is getting downright explosive. The producers of the Oscar-winning "The Hurt Locker" are preparing a massive lawsuit against thousands of individuals who pirated the film online. The case could be filed as soon as Wednesday.
Voltage Pictures, the banner behind the best picture winner, has signed up with the U.S. Copyright Group, the Washington D.C.-based venture that, as first reported in March, has begun a litigation campaign targeting tens of thousands of BitTorrent users.
According to Thomas Dunlap, a lawyer at the firm, the multi-million dollar copyright infringement lawsuit should be filed this week. He declines to say exactly how many individuals will be targeted, but expect the number to be in the tens of thousands, if not more. "Locker" first leaked onto the web more than five months before its U.S. release and was a hot item in P2P circles after it won six Oscars in March. Despite the accolades, the film grossed only about $16 million in the U.S. -end snip
in mexico piracy isnt ilegal. there are vendors on the street selling bootlegs in front of walmart or just about anywhere for like 2 bucks in pesos.
the studios should get on their asses more for letting citizens of another country sell that stuff. sure its in another country and the laws are different. but if they want to keep it that way then the studios shouldnt be sending the mexican versions to retailers to sell if its ok to buy them and copy them and not get in trouble.
another thing that would help a little with piracy is if movies came out on the same date at the theater all over the world including dvd releases. there would be less piracy if they did it that way.
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All this being said, its sad the producers aren't a little bit more creative. There are tonnes of people making a lot of money from internet distribution, and many TV shows are available, legally, to be streamed from sites. Advertising shemes that are still tolerable for the viewer are available today that would have allowed the Hurt Locker studio to turn those downloaded copies into profit with almost no change to accessibility from the user.
For instance, Global TV puts all new eppisodes of The Office on its site to stream with small comercials 3 times in the show and banner ads. I havn't pirated The Office since.
kinda like the southparkstudios.com site as well you can watch all the episodes but if you try to download one it downloads one of the comercials in between.
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I'm sure there are some angry investors who are trying to be appeased with finger pointing and promises of a legal pay-day.
But totally, I hadn't heard anything about it until the Oscars. Didn't see it though, I never really understood what was supposed to be great about it...
going this route even reduces the number of people who keep the file on their PC, thus reducing the number of people who could be sharing it p2p.
Radiohead's "in rainbows" ablum is probably one of the best examples of this whole thing, but it is true that there are very few people producing media with the standing of thom york
what would reduce a % of piracy as well is if studios would release there films at the theater the same date all over the world. like i listed above.
sometimes they come out at the theater 1st in europe or japan and from there those guys put the videos on torrent site for the rest of the world to get a look at the movie before it comes out in their country. thats costing the theaters money as well.
Absolutely. Making the stuff more available is a great way to kill piracy. I used to pirate anime, but since a lot of series are available in Hulu (FMA:Brotherhood woo!) I don't bother anymore. Hopefully that sort of thing will become more common.
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So piracy is justified. I can't see it for free legally and if I try to watch it free illegally they will use a threat of force to stop me. Clearly the best course of action is to stand up the attack on my sense of entitlement.
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