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- ferg2k8, on 08/12/2008, -15/+1363i love it, dugg for accuracy
- thinboyslim, on 08/12/2008, -11/+734i like that one - "You wouldn't steal a handbag, you wouldn't steal a car"
don't tell me what i wouldn't ***** do mate. i'm drunk in the afternoon watching sisterhood of the traveling pants of course i'd steal a ***** handbag! - kastlip88, on 08/12/2008, -14/+645***** THE MPAA
- khedoros, on 07/31/2009, -5/+584I like vlc. Skip right past anything you don't want to see, and get directly to the DVD's main menu.
- davidbeile, on 08/12/2008, -11/+508http://thepiratebay.org/
- esfisher, on 08/12/2008, -4/+474No, but I'd burn a copy if I had the technology.
- whiteknives, on 08/12/2008, -3/+309Don't copy that floppy!
- inactive, on 08/12/2008, -9/+268Perfect! Someone with more money than I will ever have should pay to plaster this ***** across the country.
- whiteknives, on 08/12/2008, -4/+256http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbX1aMajow
- infinityofnever, on 08/12/2008, -24/+266I never bought legit copies of anything, so I'm not complaining.
- Murrabbit, on 08/12/2008, -4/+237Dugg for pure truth.
- inactive, on 08/12/2008, -4/+167Yes, but have you seen an anti-piracy ad?
- IamNOTmrT, on 08/12/2008, -12/+167mandatory digg!
If you're one of the 100 or so people with an internet connection who hasn't already seen the IT Crowd parody, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbX1aMajow - aethere, on 08/12/2008, -7/+122***** the MPAA
***** the RIAA
***** the suits behind the BSA
and ***** em all for the DMCA - Bobur, on 08/12/2008, -4/+116The last DVD i rented (Charlie Wilsons War) had an unskippable 1 minute edu-video about AIDS in Africa. We all sat around, bored off our heads, waiting for it to finish and then when it did we were subjected to ads for upcoming movies... We had actually finished our pizza before the movie started.
That's why i pirate these god forsaken movies. I pay for the movie, not for the ads or an AIDS educational video... - casey148, on 08/12/2008, -4/+112http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Best ever! - juckman, on 08/12/2008, -2/+109I don't pirate illegally any more...
I don't pirate illegally any less, either. - SAOSiN, on 08/12/2008, -18/+122You wouldn't steal a car would you?
- ZombieSociety, on 08/12/2008, -5/+100But I damn sure would if you could download them.
- ZombieSociety, on 08/12/2008, -2/+92And ***** the YMCA!
- bananasluggy, on 08/12/2008, -1/+87I'm waiting for them to put intros onto all songs stating the rights you do and don't have to that song before you can play it... I bet they'll make it so you can't even fast forwards through that crap.
As for pirated DVDs, they need to accept that the cat is out of the bag, so to speak. Make the DVDs cheaper, better, and with more cool inserts that people might actually want to have. If the information is being downloaded, include stuff with the DVDs that's cool enough to buy. Make the movie or show the "bonus" and the DVD case with inserts be the real purchase.
I'd shell out extra money for a really awesome-looking set of DVDs of my favorite series and movies. How about ones that looked like real books, so that my actual books wouldn't look down on me? I'm tired of cheap looking little plastic boxes... I want something that says, "Keep me around for a while, I'm WORTH paying $30 for!" Rather than, "You'll pay $30 for two episodes because we know you're our bitch and can demand whatever we like, as we've gotten you hooked on the crack that is this show and know you'll do anything to get it!"
Then again, everything will be downloadable in time, as there's no real point in making disks if you can simply collect money to send a file that, for no reason at all, also carries all sorts of rider programs to cripple or tattle on any computer that tries to duplicate it, thereby giving programmers a new target of "happy fun time" for all of 30 minutes.
Now, I'm going back to my regularly scheduled commercial-free programming... :D - Hangly, on 08/12/2008, -6/+84If you pay for movies you're also supporting the MPAA's lawyers.
And that makes you a terrorist.
Don't be a terrorist. Download. - ayeroxor, on 08/12/2008, -6/+79One of the all-time top Digg posts. Congratulations. Your ham is in the mail.
- sap959, on 08/12/2008, -4/+70you wouldnt kill a policeman...then steal his hat...then go to the toilet in the hat...then give it to his wife!
- enzobot24, on 08/12/2008, -5/+69I just don't understand why you wouldn't pay for movies you liked.
Buying a good movie promotes the studios to make better movies. So, people like you are indirectly allowing movies like Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie to continue being made.
For shame... - Myonosken, on 08/12/2008, -1/+63You wouldn't steal a policeman's hat, and then ***** in the hat, and then give the hat to his wife as a present...
- morpheus69, on 08/12/2008, -14/+74Once and for all, downloading is not "stealing." Not even the legal system considers it so. If I steal your car, you suffer a real loss--your car. If it's not insured you have to go get another one or ride the bus until you can afford another car. I've taken something away from you and you no longer have it anymore. If I make an illegal copy of a movie or song, I haven't stolen anything, I have created an illegal copy! I haven't deprived anyone of their property. The MPAA and RIAA may claim that they have been deprived "potential revenue," but even if you ignore the fact that study after study has shown the vast majority of illegal downloaders wouldn't have paid for the content in the first place, it's still not stealing, dammit! These are totally different crimes. I would argue that the former is much more serious, but lately (unfortunately) punishments for the latter are getting way out of control.
- zzz@tkz, on 08/12/2008, -1/+60Or like one comedian said
"No, I wouldn't steal a car...that'd be terrible. But if my mate was like 'Hey, man, I can give you an exact copy of my car for free,' I wouldn't say 'no'!"
If someone knows who said that, it'd be awesome. - thavi, on 08/12/2008, -10/+65you wouldn't steal a purse
you wouldn't steal a car...
... - Xizer, on 08/12/2008, -8/+56I bought a DVD once.
Never again. - ReaverKS, on 08/12/2008, -8/+49The other day I was walking in the park when I noticed a young lady with her baby. Well let me tell you what I did next, I stole that damned thing right from her arms. But I gave it back, because I'm robin hood. Let me tell you what I did next, I saw a car, and I broke into that ***** son. But when I broke into it I noticed there was a DVD player and it was playing a DVD, and it told me about all the wrong things I had done...and I haven't broke into any cars since. But I still steal babies.
- stevealford, on 08/12/2008, -16/+57When I got my Playstation2 back in 2001, I bought five DVDs to go with it. That's the last time I paid money for movies and my collection is well over a thousand discs now. All hail bittorrent protocol.
Yes, I realize that buying cd-r and dvd+/-r discs and paying for my internet connection could technically be construed as "paying money for movies." You could also consider accidentally cutting your finger off with a meat-slicer to be a "weight loss program." - Anjow, on 08/12/2008, -9/+49If you download films you get AIDS - that's scientific fact. There's no real 'evidence' for it, but it is scientific fact.
- Jonsend, on 08/12/2008, -0/+39...then steal it again!
- Icecream, on 08/12/2008, -4/+42HAVE YOU GOT WHAT YOU PAID FOR
- ayeroxor, on 08/12/2008, -1/+37i love it, dugg for comma splice
- btschul, on 08/12/2008, -0/+34Is it that one with the epileptic mtv flashing and cutting and shaky camera where they are like :"you wouldnt steal a car.....you wouldn't steal a purse....."
- mufffin, on 08/12/2008, -1/+34I do, everytime my niece puts on her annoying disney DVD, I have to listen to 30 seconds of this *****
- sap959, on 08/12/2008, -1/+33yeah but i got redirected to facebook
- KyloOb, on 08/12/2008, -1/+32Mock the week viewer I see.
- JackTheRipper87, on 08/12/2008, -2/+33Yup, or just have AnyDVD running in the backround. It removes the encryption, and annoying ads/trailers/*****. Jumps right to the DVD's main menu, even with WinDVD or Windows Media Player.... should you for some ungodly reason decide to use anything other than VLC!
- tidu, on 08/12/2008, -0/+31and then steal it again!
- ShinyDemon, on 08/12/2008, -2/+32Best. Analogy. Ever.
- LeonHRodriguez, on 08/12/2008, -0/+30It's fine though, I think they have DVD's over there too.
- lonemarauder, on 08/12/2008, -1/+31You wouldn't violate the social contract of copyright law by extending copyright protection to infinity, would you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_ ... - greeneggsnsam, on 08/12/2008, -2/+29You wouldn't steal a policeman's hat, and then ***** in the hat, and then give the hat to his wife as a present...
- inactive, on 08/12/2008, -0/+27I actually really like that anti-piracy bit.
Instead of threats or stupidity it just says that lots of people work hard to make shiny things. - Stormwern, on 08/12/2008, -1/+27So true, same thing as adding drm to music, it's like they don't want people to buy the stuff.
- inactive, on 08/12/2008, -0/+25They were playing anti-piracy ads at a local theater a while ago. Talk about retarded. There you are getting a lecture about piracy even though you shelled out 10 bucks to see the movie and have to be subjected to 5 minutes of adds before hand. I haven't seen them do it for a while. Maybe they smartened up.
- inactive, on 08/12/2008, -8/+33Super old, but dugg for a classic.
It still rings true and is more relevant than ever. -
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