ACTA Is Coming, Bend Over,Grit Your Teeth, Sorry – NO Lube
Whats the best way to get everyone to vote for one your pet laws..?
well, it kind of depends on the law you want passed by a few good lines that rarely fail:
Blah blah blah… global warming… blah blah
Blah blah blah… think of the children… blah blah
Blah blah blah… or the terrorists win … blah blah
Blah [...]
BS Vs. BS – Fair Use Contributes 2.2 Trillion!
Big content (which comprises the companies that pay the RIAA/MPAA/BSA etc) loves to throw bogus numbers around: XX billion lost to piracy of movies, XX billion lost to piracy of music, XX billion lost to piracy of software etc.
While these numbers are quickly (almost immediately) debunked on sites like Ars, TechDirt , Wired etc they [...]
Viacom’s Lawyer: Customers “Need To Be Treated With Respect” (With Video!)
Well, we certainly do agree with Viacom on the subject, Customers do indeed need to to be treated with respect, unfortunately we don’t agree with most of the other garbage that followed from his mouth.
After his initial ‘good cop’ routine, comes the ‘not-so-bad’ cop routine, problem is, he was playing both parts himself and even [...]
The Real Pirates Are The Anti-Pirate Organizations!
Thanks to TF and WikiLeaks we see the real rogues, and pirates of the world: the so called ‘anti-pirate’ organizations show down from their moral high grounds.
Copyright infringement occurs when a person downloads a file that has not been authorized for download by the person who owns the copyrights to the files – for example [...]
HBO to Make RIAA Self Destruct Film!
Adaptation of the book “Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age” by music journalist Steve Knopper will chronicle the rise and fall of the US music industry.
Many are well aware of the music industry’s long history of ignoring music fans and now it seems that HBO Films has [...]
MPAA Shuts Down Community WiFi Because of 1 (ONE!) Illegal Download!
Not only do they disconnect hundreds of people because one person downloaded a movie but the MPAA had its self in full spin mode taking the opportunity to talk about it’s troubles and how they have to put up with such atrocities every day…. poor poor Hollywood – at least it would be if they [...]
Zombieland Writer – Where’s My Standard Hollywood Excuse?
Zombieland co-writer Rhett Reese was shocked when he discovered more than a million people had downloaded his movie illegally on BitTorrent. The Hollywood writer has now penned yet another horror scenario, claiming that this achievement could very well prevent a sequel to the successful movie from being made.
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Zombieland co-writer Rhett Reese has been following our [...]
We Know Hollywood Is This Dumb. Et Tu, Netflix?
Back in August, we wrote about the Hollywood movie studios conspiring to keep new release DVDs away from services like Netflix and Redbox for as many as 30 days after their release. The idea behind this from Hollywood’s perspective is simple: If people can’t rent movies right away, they’ll buy more. Sorry, did I say [...]
Hollywood: Filtering and 3 Strikes Needs Encouragement
The Motion Picture Association of America wants Congress to “encourage” internet providers to filter out pirated movies, and to punish customers who repeatedly engage in piracy with a “graduated response” that might include disconnection from the net.
The nation’s motion picture lobbying group floated the ideas in a 35-page lobbying letter to the Federal Communications Commission [...]
Hollywood Begging for Total Power.. again.
Hollywood’s new campaign for government permission to police the Internet for copyright theft began this month with a segment on, of all places, CBS’s Sixty Minutes. Viewers expecting another of the shows’ self-described “hard-hitting investigative reports” watched a feature called The Movie Pirates, in which a shocked Leslie Stahl disclosed what was apparently a revelation [...]
