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NEWS: Torrent Site Crushed by MPAA

The thing about this is no one can really stop this. Never. Sure you can sue and sue till the cows come home but then some one will make a new program or tech and then the downloading will continue.

I worry because I downloaded BitTorrent but I never used it. It's already off of my computer. I thought I was going to download stuff but I ended up not doing it because I thought it was wrong.

So yes, you are hurting people, a lot of people when you don't pay your movie ticket or don't buy those DVDs.

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The real implication of downloading movies (which I'm sure scares the pants off alot of movie execs) is that now people can determine the quality of a film before they go and see it.

It's more the question of "Gee, I already saw it, why should I pay $10 and spend the time to drive to the theater". Again, incomperable.

love this argument. It implies that I have to pay Hollywood for ever piece of crap they produce. If I don't, someone will get hurt, only not the executives, the big name actors, directors, etc.

Guess what? I go to very few movies 'cause most of them don't interest me.

Now here's an interesting thing. If I borrow a DVD from a friend (who legally paid for it), by the argument above, I'm hurting these poor, innocent people because I didn't pay Hollywood to view it.

If my local library has a massive DVD collection that I can check out like a book, again, the above argument states I'm taking food out of the mouths of children.

You then had two choices. The first was to throw out the DVD because you'd never watch it again. The second was to keep it, but if you wanted to watch it again, you'd have to pay a few dollars to have it reactivated for 24-hours.

MPAA completely endorsed this and promoted it heavily. Fortunately it failed.

If you create a great show, people will watch. The new Battlestar Galactica was shown in the UK before is started airing in the US. It was a big hit in the UK. It was also a big hit on places like Loki or SuprNova, so much so that Universal began crapping in their pants and Ron Moore issued a letter begging Americans to stop downloading it.

And here I thought all those downloads would kill the series. However, the series is so well written, acted, produced, etc, that people come and watch on Friday night (the death night of ratings) even though they can download it right now.

That person said that he used BT to download some TV shows that he would then copy to his PocketPC and watch at work. He paid for cable, and thus could record it on his TiVo or VCR or whatever to watch later, so how would BT be any different?

But the thing is, crap, or block buster, lots of people were involved in it's creation at much cost to the producer and studio. They are hoping and needing to at least break even on it's returns. Again it's not the one, or two people who might borrow a disk from a friend, or family member , that's covered in the price of that disk, or rental fee. It's the availability of it for free to anyone and everyone by a click of a mouse, and that can be the equivalant of a few sold out theatres receipts not gained and the loss of that break even threshold.

You're introducing factors that aren't there. You can't steal what you didn't take, so ifthey don't interest you, you're not watching them are you?

If you're borrowing from a friend, the license to view is contained in the physical medium of the DVD. He's transferring it to you.

If you watched it on TV, the station pid to air it, and libraries are fully authorized by all copyright agencies to do what they've been doing for hundreds of years.

The point they're making is that MORE people would watch had they not had early access. That extra 50,000 people can translate into hundreds of thousands if not millions in lost revenue.