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join:2000-12-03
San Jose, CA
| You're kidding? LOL! The popcorn reason reminds me of high school debate where no matter what plan the proposing team proposes, the neg team will always argue that it will lead to famine, strife, and nuclear war. One instance we proposed a plan to help the poor in our nation, and the other team managed to paste enough loose evidence together stating that our plan will cause a nuclear war! Hehe, yes... so very funny yet so very sad.
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"The real 'smart' people are successful because they make sure everyone else remains stupid and ignorant."
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bmn
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Premium,ExMod 2003-06
join:2001-03-15
hiatus
| Bull$hit ! "In the absence of movie piracy, video retailers would sell and rent more titles. Movie theatres would sell more tickets and popcorn. Corn growers would earn greater profits and buy more farm equipment." Yeah, go ahead, tell me that now after I just went to Sav-A-Center and bought a six pack of instant popcorn so that I can sit at home and enjoy the 6 seasons of MacGyver I have on DVD...
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Prove it...
Save the Internet Time (NTP) service, use the pool. | |
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Gardener
Premium
join:2006-10-19
Burnaby, BC
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| Not even in the picture. Let's suppose those nasty pirated movies are successfully filtered from the Internet. Would I go to the movie theater more? At $40+ for the four of us. for half an hour of advertising ahead of the feature, fuzzy picture, poor sound, and no ability to rewind, replay, or pause? Never mind overpriced popcorn and a complete lack of alcohol at the concessions stand.
Sorry, won't happen. We've been planning our fall entertainment, which will include live theater, the symphony, and several rock concerts. Hollywood's remade-again products simply don't enter into the picture.
However, if there is a sequel of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, my son and I would pay to see it on a theater screen. | |
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jgkolt
Premium
join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH
clubs: | bad bad bad the more filtering the more security will be beefed up to get past it regardless of it is illegal. The more laws you put on the internet the more it go down in quality. Keeps your laws off of my internet.
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Sterling
IP Support Tier III
Premium
join:2003-05-30
Pittsburgh, PA
| understanding I understand there problem but it's a plan thought up by emotional executives who don't know what they are talking about, because the scene as they call it will only adapt and change to encrypting there data transmitting to a point where no one will have any ideas what is going on, such as making it that much tougher trying to track traffic that is being encrypted to cover up terrorist activity for example.
Just another poorly thought out, knee jerk reaction.
We have guns, drugs control, and neither have worked very well in keeping things out of the hands of people who really want it. They need to stop whining and spend the money needed to deliver the content to people at a reasonable cost. Verizon is spending billions to play catch up to cable providers | |
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MrMega
join:2002-03-09
Parkersburg, WV
 ·Suddenlink
| Uhh, yeah, right... wanna buy a bridge? "In the absence of movie piracy, video retailers would sell and rent more titles. Movie theatres would sell more tickets and popcorn. Corn growers would earn greater profits and buy more farm equipment." and corn prices would go up and jab us some more or cause a shortage so E8 gas wouldn't show up as fast... Seems like they are trying to RUIN THE WORLD AHHH! | |
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detth
Onemhz On Aim
join:2000-10-06
Astoria, NY |  how about this
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RedRSX
join:2007-06-15
Erlanger, KY
clubs:
| Farmers Go Broke Due To P2P File Sharing How sad... This country is bought/sold and owned by big corporations who continue to grow more powerful in Washington via their lobbyist’s. God knows those poor corn farmers are going broke because of P2P file sharing. There was a great story from the Washington Post yesterday (carried also on MSNBC) about how “Dead Farmers get $1.1 billion in subsidies from USDA” – BUT, it appears the story has now been removed from MSNBC (and a few other sites that carried the story on the net):
»www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19912382
But it can still be found here:
»www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-new···93/posts | |
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Diaboyos
join:2007-08-21
Shreveport, LA
clubs: | Totally Ludicrous I don't eat popcorn anyway.
And how can they honestly claim it doesn't intrude on their customers privacy? They have to intrude first in order to know that a copyrighted file is being shared. | |
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join:2006-08-26
Pittsburgh, PA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Re: Totally Ludicrous NBC should shut up and be thankful someone wants to pirate their crap. If it weren't for their ability to force bundling on consumers they wouldn't be able to sell a minutes worth of programming to anyone and they'd be out of business already.
If I ever get the chance to pick my channels and pay for them individually NBC ain't getting a penny of my money. | |
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