Variety is reporting that the producers of the Academy Award-winning The Hurt Locker have filed a copyright infringement suit against potentially 5,000 people who may […] Read the full post.
May 28
2010
04:31 PM ET
'Hurt Locker' producers file piracy lawsuit
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Spookz and Silence Dogood-your arguments make you sound dumb. Why are you entitled to steal content. If it’s not theft, why don’t you walk into Walmart, walk out with a DVD, copy it, then return it? When you go to a movie, why do you even bother buying a ticket if you are just entitled to the content? I guarantee you would never walk out of Walmart with a DVD or try to sneak into a theater, because of the potential repercussions. The ability to anonymously download movies on the Internet makes cowards like you feel brave. I am glad at least some movie makers are trying to keep people like you in check.
I would gladly walk into Walmart and copy their DVDs, except they doctored the laws so you aren’t ALLOWED to return CDs and DVDs! You can return anything else, though.
Enough with the retarded “piracy is stealing” argument. Every time I see some brain-dead 14-year-old dangle it around I want to hit them over the head.
Since when is it fair to force people to buy something they don’t want? I might download this movie, watch it and decide it’s garbage (as was the case with The butthurt locker). Or, I might watch it, appreciate it and go watch it at the cinema with my friends or buy it on Bluray.
Should I really dish out $20 in advance, and fingers crossed it’ll be worth it? That’s just stupid.
I’ll only give them money if they actually made something good. Not because they made *something*.
I believe the suit is for downloads, not shares. Think about that. Nowhere does it say completed downloads. So its entirely likely that many started the DL but didn’t complete it. 1bit of Hurtlocker = GUILTY! = $1500. I think what they should do is just sue everyone everywhere for pirating this movie. Some will settle in fear. Lets pretend thats 1 in 10. Since this type of extortion is only legal in the US, that 307mil (us pop) x $1500 x %10 = $46 billion making hurtlocker the highest grossing movie of all time. Sure half of that will have to go to the law firm, but $26bil on a movie that cost $15 mil to produce is a good investment. Perfect business model.
Guilty until proven guilty, but why even have to prove anything when they’ll just pay in fear? Its the new American profit model!
Im sorry but honestly, before they can do this they should need to subpoena your pc and verify that indeed you did DL the movie. Not just part of it, the full thing. Then like most civil suits not backed by corporate greed they should be able to sue for 3x the cost of goods, which would be the purchase price of the dvd. So i see this online for $30 MSRP, you should then be liable for $90 plus legal fees. Sadly this film has been reported by other sources as having been up for DL 6 full months prior to its debut at the festivals. Which means someone at, or possibly, voltage themselves seeded the original copies. Wow, organized corporate crime really does pay.
I guess since I wasted $15 on this piece of garbage in the cinema on the recommendation of many a fool. However, I paid cash and didn’t save my receipt. Therefore I probably guilty of pirating the move and deserve a lawsuit from voltage too, or at least a hot poker in the ass.
Ok I got a couple things to say. One thing is for sure, thanks to p2p sharing ( not stealing )it is making soldier life a little easier while deployed. You know it really sucks when you miss your fvorite tv show or that movie while you are deployed. FOr two lets say I buy a dvd and lets say share the dvd to my love one. Then my love one share that dvd with their love one or friend . Now is that stealing or free publicty? What is really piracy? Piracy is make a dublicted of a brand and selling it for profit. Pricay is a guy in a movie theater with a camera . It is not the guy at home or the soldier that is deployed trying to catch up on his favorite tv show or trying not to miss the next transformer movie. So I say what the movie and music industry need to do is cut out the middle man that disturbute the movie for they cna make up for loss profit .Plus how are you going to sue your fans ?
I thought the courts ruled that it’s not technically illegal to download copyrighted material – it’s only illegal to be the one sharing it. So, shouldn’t they be going after the people who UPLOADED it, not those who downloaded?