p2p DOWNLOADERS now being sued

[aedipuss]

Producers of Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker" have made good on a promise to file copyright lawsuits against people who have illegally downloaded the movie via file-sharing networks.

Voltage Pictures, an independent production company, filed a copyright complaint on Monday against 5,000 John Does in federal court in Washington, D.C. According to court records, next on the company's to-do list is to learn the names of each of the John and Jane Does from their Internet service providers.


and that's just the ones at the top of their list.....

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20006314-261.html

[MJA]

time to update peerblock

[Noahtuck]

"The Hurt Locker" won six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, but only grossed $16 million in the United States.

So now just because a bunch of trained chimps give some movie a bunch of"oscars" that means it is good enough to draw in enough people to the theater to make say, $200 million ?


Like because it did so well at the "oscars" it should have made millions more and because it did not it must be because of illegal downloaders....

When i first read your post i could not even remember what this movie was about, the title sounded familiar but i could not even place it until i looked at the article and saw the screen shot.

I have never seen it, and may never see it because i am sure i will forget all about it again within a few hours, and i love war movies!!

Most of my life the majority of movies that were supposed to be great, sucked, and the one's that supposedly sucked, rocked!!
LOL!!

The movie folks have long quietly mocked the music industry's attempt to protect their copyrights by suing fans. To them, the strategy--abandoned by the recording sector over a year ago--was a fantastic public relations flub that the film industry largely avoided.

Huh.... that's funny....
There was a guy who lived in Kentwood, Michigan, about 10 minutes from me, who was in the news because he got busted for sharing a bunch of movies on torrents or P2P and was being sued for literally millions of $$$!!
LOL!!!
So i guess that statement is full of $h!t!!

time to update peerblock

LOL!!
That's why you don't use P2P or torrent dump sites

[redwudz]

I think this quote from Wikipedia sums it up about the Oscars:

The Oscars, the popular name for the Academy Awards, is voted upon by the over 6000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

They vote for Oscars for each other and it has nothing to do about a movie being any good.

[Supreme2k]

People still use P2P?

Not that i condone it, but for a measly $1 per movie (or free if it's at the library), a person can safely pirate a movie without the risk of this crap. If they're going to rip off anyway, they might as well do it without having the whole movie industry and courts involved.

Or they could rent it, watch it once, pine over the lost time, and return it. No use in going bankrupt or to jail over a crappy movie (or even a good one).

[hech54]

Wouldn't this mean that someone involved with The Hurt Locker had to physically create a torrent to share and track somehow?

[aedipuss]

they currently have 50,000 requests in to isp companies for the names and addresses of p2p downloaders in the u.s. for a small start with many more to come. so yes there must be a large base of users.

looks to me like they had computers actively in the swarm sharing the movies in question and logging the ip of every request to download a part.

People still use P2P?

i can't believe anyone ever did, it was unsafe from inception.

[Noahtuck]

I think this quote from Wikipedia sums it up about the Oscars:

The Oscars, the popular name for the Academy Awards, is voted upon by the over 6000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

They vote for Oscars for each other and it has nothing to do about a movie being any good.

I thought that was what i said/wrote....
Trained chimps!!

LOL!!

[Forum Troll]

This was a big part of why I don't use BT any more. I went to Giganews and never looked back.

[Pinstripes23]

"The Hurt Locker" won six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, but only grossed $16 million in the United States.

...I have never seen it, and may never see it because i am sure i will forget all about it again within a few hours, and i love war movies!!

How do you know you won't like it? I've watched and it's a damn good movie...very intense and suspenseful. I'd say it's worthy of its oscar accolades.

The problem why it only grossed 16 million was because of the distribution in the theaters or marketing. There was barely any advertising for the film. This movie played nowhere near any movie theater where I live....and IMDB says it peaked at some 500 theater locations? A lot of movies get at least over 2000 plus theaters when first released. And I first heard about this movie last year and would've definitely gone to the theater to watch it as I enjoy the director's work.

And by the time it gained steam for the oscars it was already released on DVD. So if anyone should be sued it should be their marketing/distribution department as they were pathetic in advertising it.

[sambat]

Before the Internet and even before Bulletin Boards, bundles of 5.5 inch floppy disks containing umpteen video games were mailed around the world from friend to friend.
The friends of the friends made copies and continued the chain.
That's how C64, Ti-99, Atari users distributed software and that's how it will be done again for video (if no new undetectable method surfaces).
Hollywood will continue to weep bitter tears to no avail.

[jagabo]

Before the Internet and even before Bulletin Boards, bundles of 5.5 inch floppy disks containing umpteen video games were mailed around the world from friend to friend.
The friends of the friends made copies and continued the chain.

Yes, that's why the post office should open every packet and examine the contents. If they find any copyrighted material they should assume the sender and recipient are not authorized to distribute it and destroy it. Then they should notify the rights holders so legal action can be taken.

Since you don't even need use the postal system, every person should be searched every time they are in public. Then the owners of the streets and sidewalks should be sued for facilitating copyright infringement.

And don't forget, everything anyone creates is now copyrighted by default. So no art or information created after 1923 can be transmitted anywhere, anytime.

Don't even think about encryption to hide your nefarious activities. You're obviously a terrorist if you do that and an even worse fate awaits you.

[sambat]

...and musn't forget your breathing licence.

[Noahtuck]

How do you know you won't like it? I've watched and it's a damn good movie...very intense and suspenseful. I'd say it's worthy of its oscar accolades.

I watched it the other day, it was okay, but it was not that great.....
I can't see myself ever watching it again.

I guess you missed this post,

"The Hurt Locker" won six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, but only grossed $16 million in the United States.

So now just because a bunch of trained chimps give some movie a bunch of"oscars" that means it is good enough to draw in enough people to the theater to make say, $200 million ?

& this post,

They vote for Oscars for each other and it has nothing to do about a movie being any good.

LOL!!

[Bonie81]

"Producers of Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker" have made good on a promise to file copyright lawsuits against people who have illegally downloaded the movie via file-sharing networks."

Yet, another Joke!


Folks, Have you heard of ...
Steven Spielberg for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull which has grossed $317 million domestically, and over $786 million worldwide.
-or-
James Cameron for Avatar which became the first movie to ever earn more than $2 billion worldwide.

Are following same foot-steps as "The Hurt Locker" producers?
May be not, coz they know their films definitely gonna make an excellent show while in theater.

By the way, last question...
Are "The Hurt" people successful to "Lock" the John and Jane Does, yet???


I really laugh at our sole dependency on Media News and considering Media News as a fact, or bare naked truth.

Any way thanks for sharing nice jokes or humors on Video Help with interesting discussions.

[Bonie81]

As this post has nothing to do with Audio or Video,
I request to the moderators to move this post in Latest Video News section.

[Noahtuck]

As this post has nothing to do with Audio or Video,
I request to the moderators to move this post in Latest Video News section.

Mmmmmk.....

After reading your first post in this thread, i was kind of confused....
I was wondering if you or myself was more stoned.......

After reading your second post, now i am sure, you are way more stoned than i am!!!
LMAO!!!!

This is posted in the Newbie / General discussions forum......
LOL!!!

[Bonie81]

@Noahtuck

The thread is about The Hurt Locker, i guess, sure it is not about anyone else.
who cares... who is confused or who is stoned.

[Noahtuck]

@Noahtuck

The thread is about The Hurt Locker, i guess, sure it is not about anyone else.
who cares... who is confused or who is stoned.

I know exactly what this thread is about....


Well, i am guessing you.....

I don't know who is more confused.....
the Confused or the Confuser!!!

It's kind of like, if anyone can figure out what this guy is talking about in this post, they need to be king of the short bus!!
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/322039-Good-or-Bad-at-Verbatim-97016?p=1994092&view...=1#post1994092



LOL!!!

[Pinstripes23]

How do you know you won't like it? I've watched and it's a damn good movie...very intense and suspenseful. I'd say it's worthy of its oscar accolades.

I watched it the other day, it was okay, but it was not that great.....
I can't see myself ever watching it again.

I guess you missed this post,

I didn't miss those posts. But when you said you didn't see it that's when I responded on how you know you won't like it having never watched it? You respond some 10 days later AFTER watching the movie and re-quoting people.

If you didn't like it after watching it well then ok. People have different tastes on movies. But I've learned a long time ago not to pre-judge a movie before ever seeing it....and have watched a lot of hidden gems in the process.