| Copyright Bullies Its almost like they are blaming others for their failing revenue streams instead of themselves. I don't condone piracy but acting like bullies wont fix the problem. |
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| Im no pirate but the more I hear about these tactics the less movies and music CD's i buy. In fact its now down to ZERO. Look their revenue isnt seeing decreases due to piracy its because of things like the recession and gaming is now bigger than ever and taking more of our time than before. There are many other reasons buts its important to say again. Piracy is not the smoking gun behind their sinking profits. |
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| I have been boycotting on a personal scale for over a year now.i do not buy any new corporate greedbag products and if I do want a movie/Cd i will find it used somewhere.
I am also down to buying NONE form any RIAA,MPAAA,etc artist/company |
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You say that and yet the movie industry had a record setting year in 2009. |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR | reply to taurusgl
said by taurusgl:I don't condone piracy but acting like bullies wont fix the problem. Maybe. "Acting like bullies" saved the cable industry. Back around the early 1980's, stealing cable service was commonplace. Then the MSO's got very agressive in going after cable pirates, and it largely stopped. Technological advances, like switching to encrypted systems also helped - no longer could someone just climb up the utility pole and remove some trap filters. I suspect over time, techology advances will help here, too, at least for video. Audio piracy is so easy it may be a lost cause. The record industry is already saying that the cuurent all-time platinum sales records may never be broken. |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | said by PDXPLT:The record industry is already saying that the cuurent all-time platinum sales records may never be broken. It sure won't with the crap the major record companies are putting out these days. They don't have to worry about me infringing such crap, I don't even want it for free. |
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said by Skippy25:You say that and yet the movie industry had a record setting year in 2009. So then what's their problem? I suppose they'll have to point at "lower than anticipated record profits" as the reason they're going after individual P2P users? |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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From which I infer that the industry has some kind of, probably flawed, metric which tells them that they would have done even better without the P2P piracy.
Of course, they want a low-cost, low-barrier (WRT legal requirements) entry into the "lawsuite" arena, so they can make a quick additional buck, without a lot of the cost overhead, from legally extorting settlements from P2P users.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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OMG! A record setting year?! My goodness, pirating is just destroying their profits. |
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Maybe thats true but I doubt it. The word is that many movie studios are scaling back on production of new movies and some are on the brink on bankruptcy just dieing for someone to either merge or takeover them.
Another problem with the Movie and music industries is that theres too much bloat. Too many hands grabbing cash and too many are just unnecessary these days. These industries havent learned to scale back like the rest of the world did years ago. They didnt learn how to operate more efficiently. They did nothing but business as usual. Oh Yeah and they obviously dropped the ball on leveraging new technologies to help them make this all happen. Not our problem. I say let them fight on with this Bull. Its not going to get them very far. Piracy is not their problem. The ones who realize that will survive. The ones that dont will die fighting a lie. |
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