Thread: MPAA's Scare Tactics

Your ideas are right on Drake51. This is but another smear campaign designed to simply cow the people who may not stay current or are thinking about trying p2p. I would guess that it is a little too late to put the cork back in the bottle at this point. As you point out, this year was a banner year for the movie industry and video sales topped the charts. I haven't seen any data that suggests that p2p hurts the sale of the movies and all data points to quite the contrary. But they are doing considerably quicker what the RIAA took over 5 years to do, start suing people, so it will be interesting to see whats next. I look forward to seeing what the next shot fired from the P2P community is. High encryption, anonymous networks I hope! =D> Nice job once again!

Drake51- very well said i agree, (i wish i had a private jet and drive a very expensive car like the movie stars

We all knew how fucking greedy the fucking MPAA are, (AA stands for assosiation of assholes) and the shitty hollywood celebrities. It's true so many of them get fuckin millions to star in movies, it's sick. They basicly donate 0.001% of their multimillion salary and idiot people consider them gods of this shit or fashion or whatever. Just fuck them man, download as much as you can, upload as much as you can, that's what we gotta do now. There will be mirror sites popping up soon and you can always google for some torrents. I know it's inconviniet but who says anything in life is easy, well except maybe being a rich, greedy celebrity. Fucking shitty flicks are more than $10 here in Canada, and so many of them suck. I don't buy any American music, cauze for one, I am not a 13 year girl going through puberty and listening to pop shit and 2, most of the fucking rap crap is fake so I don't listen to that shit either. But I have friends who buy a cd, 25 to 30 bucks a pop and for what? For a fucking two or three tracks that are on the fucking radio anyway, being overplayed over and over again. Can't wait for satellite radio here in Canada and fuck MPAA, fuck them. Get the p2p security you need, and dowload and upload as much as you can.

This is a classic "Dog in a Manger" approach by MPAA. They are making lots of profits and yet they want to stop others from enjoying their creation even when it costs MPAA nothing.

The allusion is to one of Aesop’s fables, written about 600BC, in which a dog was taking a nap in a manger. When an ox came and tried to eat the hay in the manger, the dog barked furiously, snapped at him and wouldn’t let him get at his food, food that, of course, was useless to the dog. At last the ox gave up and went away muttering, “Ah, people often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves�.

As for whether is it the actors or the ordinary worker in a film studio that loses, the economic perspective is found here
http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/mpaa.htm

How many of you get your information directly from the RIAA or MPAA? Not too many. Most of us here know about what is going on with the RIAA and MPAA through p2p news sites. It is the p2p news sites which are promoting this climate of fear because they would rather report a story on how the RIAA sued someone or how the MPAA shut down a site than to have no story at all.

Well not that we need every single p2p detail that happens on the web, but MPAA aint that small of news. The law suits do happen and imagine how you'd feel if you got the letter tomorrow saying that you are being sued for a few g's for downloading this and that. Two days ago, when the whole lokitorrent thing went down, I put on my peer guardian before I went to the site and next thing you know, Warenet or something like that gets 15 unsuccesful hits on me in a matter of minutes. I go on google see what the hell is warenet and I see shit that MPAA is using it to do some sort of tracking. We all know that p2p has it's legit and illegit purposes and I am sure that most of p2p peers are pissed off about high prices of entertainment these days, so that's why we download sometimes, see it/play it and probably go off and buy it. The fucking lobby groups MPAA and RIAA keeps on bitching about lost $ and the united states of corporations stands behind them. Now I see p2p more than just sharing files and so forth. It's some sort of a battle, yet as a p2p user, I don't feel wrong about my illegit downloads. I have my reasons and seeing MPAA's diss on lokitorrent site yesterday pissed me off more than anything. That's why we need to keep fucking them up. MPAA is nothing but a loaded, fucknig loaded lobby group who does not care about its consumers, nor artists, it's all about making sure that we as consumers keep on buying $25 dollar cd's for those 2 songs that we like. And who da fuck needs to care about movie starts, most make more in a year than most of us will in a lifetime.

stz_03...yup man, i couldnt agree with ya more. To hell with AA's and their greedful way of living. I certainly feel like the little man in this, like the underdog. That's why i agree also with uploading and download all u can.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!

The scare tactics only hit a minority of p2p users with the actual lawsuits. What worries me about reporting on every new lawsuit is that it puts fear into the hearts of the majority of p2p users and then when that happens the **AA will succeed. Perhaps we have to remain willfully ignorant of what is going on, so that we all continue to use filesharing and allow people to browse our shared files and allow uploads without being leeches. By putting ourselves at risk through willful ignorance we are sacrificing ourselves towards the cause of p2p filesharing. The more people sacrificing themselves the better off we will be. No matter how much they litigate against it, filesharing will eventually have to succeed if everyone keeps doing it.

I used to use Amazon to check out bands I had heard about fom friends etc, but they give you such a small part of each song. So I turned to Kazaa and suchlike to try before I buy.

However with the increasing use of fascist tactics I've now given up buying cd's from the stores and buy from eBay instead. Sod them, sod em all. They wanna suck every penny from us. Now we can't even make our own compilations up without having to find ways around copy protection on cd's. It's out of hand and they'll get what they deserve. Their own greed created the situation where people download free music, movies, etc. Why can't they just be more honest and reduce the prices, reduce the control.

Maybe this will bring about a revolution in the music industry so that it becomes un-industrial, i.e. not just mass producing music to make money for money's sake.

Bands can easily sell their own cd's and mp3's without being enslaved by dictatorial record companies who rip them off too.

Metallica did themselves a great dis-service by siding with the money mongers. Bands of their status could easily go it alone and provide their fans with music without any record companies involvement. It's just lazy not to do so and bad business sense too as they'd make far more money for themselves too by selling thier music direct at a much cheaper rate.