MPAA Must Pwn Itself

[Eyoshi]

The following article has been brought attention to me from somewhere: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...accused-piracy

Apparently film maker Kirby Dick has claims that a lawyer for the MPAA admitted to making a copy of a submitted movie by him entitled, "This Film is Not Yet Rated".

This goes against the MPAA's line of "Piracy is a serious federal offence. There are several forms of piracy including internet piracy, DVD copying, illegal sales and theatrical camcording. All forms of piracy are illegal and carry serious legal consequences."

The funny thing is that for some reason I can't go onto their website. :/

[dontcareaboutmyid]

RE: MPAA Must Pwn Itself

RIAA and MPAA, should start learning that their t actics of retarded mass sueing are not going to divert the use of P2P.

If they were smart, they'd jump on the bandwagon, create their own P2P system, make advertisment revenue for covering band gigs, events ect ect., charge a small member ship fee on a month by month basis, and not make it suck.

[Tasselfoot]

RE: MPAA Must Pwn Itself

Except they can't do that because the pay music sites like Napster or Rhapsody have licensing agreements with the owners of music libraries, like UMG et al. And, from what I understand.... those rights are a) not cheap b) not easy to aquire from the music companies c) you have those fun things called "barriers to entry" to contend with, such as Napster / Rhapsody already being in the market and having huge userbases already (not to mention the licenses)...

Just because they are sectors of the government does not mean they can do whatever they want. It would be EXTREMELY difficult for one of them to start a pay-music site that people would use because of the above reasons... but, I think the main reason is the fact that the majority userbase CAN NOT FUCKING STAND THE RIAA OR MPAA. It would quickly spread that they were running said site/service, and any users who were trying it out would quickly vanish. It would be like the IRS opening a Tax Preperation business to compete with H&R Block.