What stops most people downloading is the fear that the authorities might be watching. Dargens allows downloading without giving out ip address.

People should pay for movies but the studios could help as well by making it to purchase and watch movies online.

Daniel

So, are they producing less music nowadays???
answer: Not really. So where is the problem. I know bands that got rich after some kids downloaded their music and created a real hype.

And compared to the movie-industries, are there less movies? Is de budget shrinking? Is the industry financially in trouble?
Answer: Eu..no, not really. They give kids with no directing skills 100 million dollar films to direct and bring out more blockbusters than we can dream of.

I agree it’s wrong for somebody to camcorder a movie at the local theatre, but let’s be honest. Compared to the multimilliondollar return at the box-office and dvd-sales, this can hardly be considered as a real problem. Who want to see a camcorder version anyway, where sound and image are total crap.

If they kept a democratic pricetag and synchronised the releasedates, pirating would fade away. We should sew MPAA for leaking B-movies out on the internet to be able to attack Little Johnny for $150′000. I don’t have proof, but I guess I don’t need any.

I saw the trailer for the movie “This Film is not Yet Rated”.
In the trailer it shows the outside of the MPAA Los Angeles office.
I was shocked cause I know that building! The building is in the San Fernando Valley just west of the 405 fwy on Ventura Bvld. I allways wondered who was in that building because on the exterior gated walls there were mini tile-art pieces depicting famous movie scenes.
It all came together when I saw the trailer.

I’ve looked for the dvd in stores its tough to find. I might have to resort to Amazon. ;-p.

Here’s the kicker, I drove by that building about 2 weeks ago and all the tile-art was stripped off the gated walls and the building was up for lease.

The movie “This Film Is Not Yet Rated” drove the bastards out !!!!!!!! There gone seeking a new secret location. What a bunch of nazi scumbags.
Thanks Donald for reminding me of that, I totally forgot.

True story!!!

Also, to my knowledge the MPAA is a private organization. They are not run by the government. They aren’t ‘charging’ anyone with anything. They can lobby (as they are in this case) that a government do something in their favor, but it is not the MPAA who is charging anyone. They can, like any private entity, press charges.

I’m with TheMovieVampire, the quote listed doesn’t actually say they think they don’t NEED proof, but I’m assuming that either there have been clarifying remarks or there is more to the quote somewhere.

I do agree with you that the consumer shouldn’t be prosecuted–and by consumer, I mean the person at the very end of the chain, the one downloading the pirated file; you’re right that by doing so, Big Entertainment (if I might steal a page from the anti-tobacco crowd’s book) is slowly alienating a large portion of their potential fan base. Instead, I think it would behoove B.E. to pour more resources into developing online movie rental platforms, such as those available from Netflix, to make renting a digital file more quickly and more easily.

It’s not that hard: follow the existing model of a certain time period in which content expires after the initial playback instance, then dedicate enough bandwidth to the platform to make sure the movie downloads FAST. I guarantee that the casual “pirated product” consumer will pay a couple of bucks to get a fast, easy download that includes the extras in DVD or Blu-Rya format rather than a low-quality .AVI file. Then you add the option to buy the product, less the rental price, if you enjoyed it, and you’ve just increased your online sales by a good percentage, I’ll bet.

With the advent of the digital age, of course it’s becoming more difficult to find proof of piracy! Big Entertainment should really learn to ride the wave; instead, they just keep trying to sue all the fish in the ocean.