MPAA Wants to Contol YOU

Have you heard about what MPAA wants to try next?

Better than reading about it, is watching this short videoclip:



Will they ever learn?
Can't we just send the Joker have a talk with them?
Why are they always "so serious"?

How to Reduce Movie Piracy

Go figure... after all, it's easy to solve the movie download problem quickly and easily. All MPAA has to do is: DO THEIR MATH RIGHT!

Before: 44% due to College Students

In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry's domestic losses came from illegal downloading of movies by college students, who often have access to high-bandwidth networks on campus.

Now: 15%

But now the MPAA, which represents the U.S. motion picture industry, has told education groups a "human error" in that survey caused it to get the number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss.

Reality: 3%

(...) says it doesn't account for the fact that more than 80 percent of college students live off campus and aren't necessarily using college networks. He says 3 percent is a more reasonable estimate (...)

From 44% to 3% in 3 easy steps! Wow!
And to think of all the measures they tried to enforce on University Campus, based on that report...
Now, care to check all other piracy reports to see their mistakes?

[AP via Boingboing]

A Judge with good judgment at last: music download not infringing copyright if not for profit

According to spanish judge Paz Aldecoa in Santander (Spain) downloading music without the intent to profit from it, is not a crime.

Although the accusers wanted a 48 year old man - who downloaded songs from the internet for himself and to share with his friend - to be fined and pay for damages, the judge ruled that a crime against intellectual property must involve profit, which was not the case.

Finally, someone with good sense!

This may be a nice precedent for other similar cases.

Source [Diario Digital] (in Portuguese)

Canada taxes music downloads

As if calling you a thief when copying your own CDs wasn't enough, someone came up with one more clever strategem:
If you can't stop music piracy, make those who abide the law to pay for it!

Canadas's Copyright Board wants you - who download legally purchased music - to pay an extra tax to cover for all the lost revenue. Hey, why not just send every citizen a bill every year, regardless?
(But I better shut up, we never know when one of them may really start thinking that would be a good idea)

This one more sign that thing must really change. I think this is the only industry where they treat their customers as thief and charge them left and right!

Would you eat at a restaurant where they would charge you first, and tell you can only eat where, when and how they tell you to? I surely wouldn't; just as sure I as will never buy any CD/DVD/Bluray from Sony until they stop calling me a thief!
But guess what, as I won't be giving them my money, I'll automatically be tagged as a pirate - after all, whenever they make any less money (which they really don't) they blame piracy; and don't even consider people are not buying it because they are not willing to put up with their idiotic schemes and spending their money elsewhere.

I wonder where all those millions spent on stupid DRM are really going...
(though I guess they don't think a lot about it, since the ones who pay for that are... all of us)

I really hope this is their last gasp for air, and that the whole Industry will crash and give birth to a whole new and modern concept: the concept to deliver what people want, without restrictions, at an affordable price.