Boycott hollywood

[testaccount]

I put this on my blog, thought I could post it here too.

 

So the MPAA is suing several popular Bittorrent sites.

 

File sharing is the future! All hell can't stop us now!

 

I personally can't afford to see movies at $12 a show. With a date, $24 gone. I will get around paying that much for a movie no matter what they do, whether I see it at the cheap theatre, rent it, watch it on TV, borrow it from a friend, or through file sharing. I also can't rent, I don't have a VCR or DVD player at university, but when I go home I always rent with friends, I don't need to fileshare. I have an entertainment budget, I was willing to spend money on movies, but only up to a point. I'd pick the best ones that I thought might deserve the $12 (or $5 to rent) and when I ran out of money I'd find other ways to see them. They're not going to make any more money off me if they cut off my access to filesharing. And now they'll make no money off me, and I'll work to destroy them with all the free time I have.

 

What does it matter if BT sites make it easier for us to share movies and what not. I could record a movie from TV with a VCR. I can record new music from the radio onto mp3. I could lend someone I hardly know a copy of my favourite movie, in exchange for a movie they have. People share things all the time. We don't all have to buy our own cars, we ride the bus. We pay for eachothers healthcare and education, we share basketballs, parks and swimming pools. The internet just makes sharing easier.

 

As for the MPAA this is their own fault, I could be watching movies right now, but my some of my filesharing sites are offline from the court order. Instead I'm writing this to encourage boycotting of their backing companies: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.; Paramount Pictures; Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Universal City Studios, LLP; and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

 

Do not pay for hollywood movies! Watch them on TV, sneak into the theatre, download them, read the book, watch a play, watch independent films, get outside, fly a kite do anything except pay for a hollywood movie.

 

What good will suing poor people do? The site getting sued aren't selling the movies for money, they're just search engines for filesharers. There's not much profit for theses sites except maybe the advertising traffic. And suing people who share files is silly, they're usually young people with no money on ignorant family computers.

 

Here's some shit from their site:

"Downloading a movie without paying for it is no different than walking into a store and stealing a DVD off the shelf."

-Wrong! there is a huge difference, you are filesharing with people who did buy the DVD. It's like walking to your buddy's house and borrowing it.

 

They have a ton of "facts" about how movies aren't profitable on their site but nothing to back it up. They just say 1 in 10 recoup the funds and then later on 6 in 10 do. They also say movies are fueling the economy, that "For the fourth straight year, domestic cumulative box office from all studios continues to hold near $9 billion." $23.24 billion in 2005 for worldwide box office sales. Pretty damned good for an industry making unprofitable products.

 

Here's a great statistic that we all care about: "In 2005, PG and PG-13 films accounted for 85% of 2005’s top 20 films."

 

"The average motion picture cost the MPAA member companies $98 million to make and market in 2004. Six out of ten movies never recoup their original investment. Fewer movies will be made and fewer creative risks will be taken if piracy is continues to rob those who invest in movies."

I say, good riddance. It's survival of the fittest. We don't want to see bad movies anyway. And they should stop advertising so much for the damned movies, I'll bet a huge factor is over spending in marketing ("$36.2 million in marketing costs").

 

"In 2005, the total of new films released increased by 5.6% from 2004, with 549 new films versus 520 in 2004." So 549 films at 90 million per film. $49 billion dollars per year!? And they only get $23.24 billion from the box office... how the hell do they pay for these lawyers to sue filesharing sites? They're in the hole $26 billion dollars. I don't think they can sell $26 billion dollars worth of happy meal toys, even if MacDonalds has served over 99 billion meals.

 

"It's every one of the 750,000 people who get up every day in the U.S. and go to work to bring you the magic of the movies. It's people like the stuntmen and women, the grips, the makeup artists and even the caterers who feed the crew." Good, I sympathize with them but they don't make much, and they get paid no matter what. It's not like they earn a share of the profits, they make minimum wage often. If we take that $60 million cost per movie (not including marketing), they may get paid $80 per movie on average. But the MPAA also says the box office totals come to $23.24 billion in 2005 a year if they shared all that revenue they should get $31,000 annually. And how much money do actors and producers make?! I'm not sure if that 750,000 includes the non-unionized teenaged jobs at all the local theatres or not. But you get the point, film industry workers of the world unite!

 

http://mpaa.org/press_releases/2006_02_23.pdf

 

www.mpaa.org

 

We'll see how long I can stick to this, I really liked some movies out there. There are always independent movies and cheap theatres though. I went for about 5 years buying clothing with no logo's and only "made in Canada, US or europe" labels, hell, my shoes are made of wood. I still only shop at 2nd hand stores or Costco, so I still stick to this, but my mom keeps buying me clothing from the GAP and other members of the evil empire.

 

Check this out, fun song about filesharing:

[Megalith]

Totally agree, I have not rented a movie since this announcement and am dowloading more material than ever.

 

The real people being ripped off here are indeed as the MPAA says the behind the scenes workers after all they are getting paid peanuts by their bosses. Sharing is not evil i mean these fatcats at the MPAA are the ones taking the profits.

 

Actors/Actresses are paid too much as are many sports players. slightly off subject true, but if these so called stars were paid less then more people would be able to afford to see them. I do not see any justification in these people getting saleries in 6 months that 90% of the population dont make in an entire lifetime.

 

What gets me is the attitude these people have. All this piracy is killing blah blah blah they need to be taught a lesson and boycotting them is one way they will learn. Hit them where it matters and with these capitalists that is in their pockets. I suggest that anyone who believes them to be wrong takes the following action:-

 

Dont buy or rent their products.

Put messages on any noticeboard they come across like this one.

Support people who believe the same as you do.

Seed as many files as you can.

 

I see no justification in what they are doing and will fight them all the way, hell i would die fighting this one.

 

The internet or WorldWideWeb is not an American organisation that can be forced to shut up because some movie maker is crying over lost profits. The internet was created to enable people all over the world to share their views to all. As such it is beyond government sanctioning and should never be bought out by capitalists.

 

Freedom is a precious thing and any attempt to curtail freedom is simply wrong and completely unjustified even more so when it is representatives of the "land of the free" who are leading the way in destroying this freedom.

 

The WWW is beyond government control and quite right too.

 

As testaccount says everybody shares things. Sharing is not evil and it is something that in fact should be encouraged.

 

I can record a program from my TV perfectly legally for a friend to watch there is nothing wrong with this and certainly there is nothing wrong with downloading a program to watch by myself.

 

If there are any villains in this it is the guys we see down the pub selling low quality films for personal profit but then this really is not that much differant from the MPAA selling movies for profit when it comes to it.

 

If the MPAA want people to respect them then they should concentrate their resources on stopping these people from capitalising. They foolishly believe that stopping bit torrent sites will prevent these people from existing but unfortunately these people are still operating and still profiting from their actions.

 

Sharing is not piracy. Sharing is about freedom and commoradre. The rights of freedom that the net provides should never be destroyed or controlled. Anyhow any attempts made to do this will just mean that sharers will go elsewhere to get what they want. Long live freedom.

[Soulreaper]

Very good - my point exactly but you should have added:

The highest cost for a movie = tom cruise or arnold or whoever earning 50% of the entire cost in wages or similar which in fact is nothing different from the "big company crooks" taking home 200 million dollars in pensions while they on the other hand will have to kick 2000-3000 people in order to afford to pay that one boss.

 

And remember... all the "these are the reasons for blabla" is just propaganda - just like the Iraqi war or anything else >> propaganda produced so that people are molded to think what 'they' want people to think - most likeley made by the same marketing guys who made the commercials.

 

But I agree - for some special reasons - this have all had to be moderated, but nonetheless it's the truth and it's time for some revolution

[Soulreaper]

Oh yeah I forgot:

 

Another interesting thing concerning this community is that shows such as Quantum Leap and Space 1999 etc. not to mention any Trek and others, has already been on TV (at least at my location) easily 4-5 times if not more over the years. As for the real old shows like Space 1999 etc. had it not been for this community, I strongly doubt that they had ever gotten any attention at all since they really were buried and forgotten many many years ago - hell even abandoned by 'the owners'.

 

Other shows such as Lost, Stargate etc. are also airing on TV if not now, they have been - Lost btw is in on its second rerun atm. I don't see a problem with finding them on the Net anywhere when they're already on TV anyhow.

 

=)

[Soulreaper]

http://www.mpaa.justgotowned.com/

 

Funny things aside, a lot of this topic is already covered in HERE