[Zarax]

Ok, it seems that MPAA adopted the same unefficent behaviour as RIAA...
Here's what was posted inside a very legal and official tech support newsgroup (a cookie to who finds it)...

See:
http://www.respectcopyrights.org/

I suggest you remove the illegal copies of the movies you have already
downloaded as soon as possible - you have been reported. It is illegal to
download movies and there are heavy penalties imposed on those who
participate in such illegal activities. You are not invisible on the
internet, and authorities can, and will as they have already done, track you
down.

Frankly, i'm a bit sick of that, especially since it followed a totally unrelated post of someone asking help...
Will they ever learn?

[Flipside]

Back Ocean! Back I say! You must obey me for I am the MPAA!

[Zarax]

Personally i'm not going to clash with MPAA, i don't live in US but they can still create me some problems there...
I'm simply talking about the fact that RIAA failed badly with a similar strategy, and i don't think MPAA will do any better this way... Especially using fake organizations as grunts...

[Flipside]

It was like in Glasgow Central Station, and that rather dodgy 'modified' detector van, which allegedly detected anyone downloading illegal movies

[Zarax]

LOL!
It would be sounding all time here in Italy...
We got almost as much piracy as eastern europe...

[Tiara]

You know, the funny thing is that these organizations can't even penetrate a few proxies. I've got a single proxy set up. And last year I got a similar message through Kazaa (when i still used it) when I was downloading a few old Trek episodes. In that message they posted my old proxy IP;

"viruswall3.starhub.net.sg"

According to them, I live in Singapore.

These people are just a bunch of dumbf*cks

[Flipside]

I presume they check what people are downloading by offering the video up for download themselves and seeing who 'bites'?

[Blue Lion]

How dare they be upset at you guys stealing movies! It's mob mentality people!

[Tiara]

We ain't stealin' no movies, we just ain't payin' for 'm!

[vyper]

They're pissing about and it's annoying. They expect respect for using scary wording.

They'll more likely to get a veneral disease and since I doubt MPAA or RIAA staff ever get laid....

[Zarax]

The only thing i regret is that i cannot reply there unless i want to get some people really pissed at me...

[karajorma]

I've been saying for years that the MPAA needed to learn from the disaster that the RIAA had trying to enforce copywrite and stop the same problems occuring to them.

Now they are rapidly running out of time. The technically literate amongst us already know how to download movies. With a couple of years everyone will know how and then they'll be in exactly the same position as the RIAA are now.

You really have to wonder why they believe that they can copy exactly what RIAA did but yet somehow get different results.

[Zarax]

Well, they're going to race to HD in order to make downloads more difficult now...

[ionia23]

Interesting.  I love the mentality that states those who work in the arts do not deserve to be paid for their work.

[aldo_14]

It's the publishers I grudge paying.  Y'know, like the ones that plough millions of pounds into financing ****e all image no talent pop groups.

Of course, P2P actually makes me buy more music, so the 'less money' arguement is clearly bollocks in my case.

[Lightspeed]

@ionia: Considering they get 0.001% of the money spent on the product that's not a valid argument.

[ionia23]

Right.  because artists are already being ripped off by their own promoters, a little more won't hurt.  Ya.  I'm familiar with this territory.

[vyper]

It's cheaper.

Now that's some interesting territory.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Originally posted by karajorma
Now they are rapidly running out of time. The technically literate amongst us already know how to download movies. With a couple of years everyone will know how and then they'll be in exactly the same position as the RIAA are now.

Really, I think almost everyone I know downloads movies and games. It's so easy already, even my brother who doesn't now a thing of computers ("Drivers? Are we talking about cars now?") downloads stuff each and every day. And all of his friends do the same.

I no longer dl games, mostly because through modding I've come to realise how hard work it is and those who did all that work deserve to be paid. If I can't afford some new fancy game, I wait. I'm in no hurry. Besides, it's completely different thing to see the cool game box on the your shelf bought with well earned money, than to just dl and delete it once you get bored.

[karajorma]

What I meant is that while any idiot can use Kazaa to download mp3s most find the long download times on that network prohibative when it comes to downloading movies (where the more technical solutions like E-donkey, BitTorrent or of course the completely overlooked Usenet are far better).

Downloading movies isn't as widespread yet cause the download times are too long for most people to be bothered with.