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Movie Director Uses BitTorrent as Lawyers Chase Those Downloading His Movie

torrentfreak.com — The director of a successful Norwegian ‘Kill Bill’ parody movie who admits to downloading TV shows via BitTorrent himself, doesn’t support his distributor as they take legal action against his fans. Fourteen people accused of sharing the movie have been reported to the police by MPA copyright lawyer, Espen Tøndel.

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  • minidiez, on 11/24/2007, -0/+5So downloading this movie tonight! Did you see the cover art? ***** hiliarious!
    • Enigmaxx, on 11/24/2007, -3/+1Yeah! What exactly is he doing with that goat? :D
  • duckyinc, on 11/24/2007, -0/+15:) good to see a director with sense
    • carpespasm, on 11/24/2007, -0/+4bad to see that even if he has sense, he doesn't get to say who tries to persecute people over his work.
      • duckyinc, on 11/24/2007, -0/+1He doesn't need to it's obvious only one evil cooperation would do that
    • altrego99, on 11/24/2007, -0/+1There should be more people like him.
  • listed, on 11/24/2007, -5/+94You know what! Seriously ***** the MPAA & RIAA.. Here is why.. they are so far behind when it comes to distribution of their content. Recently, I've tried to make an effort of purchasing the movies and music I've downloaded off bittorrent, and that's alot of content that I was willing to legally purchase. I saved up to 1,000 $ and was ready to pay back my dues. I was only paying for the stuff I enjoyed, and stuff worth purchasing. That is the beauty of bittorrent.

    Tried all the different online stores, and places where I can legally purchase or view their content (Zune Marketplace, iTunes, Amazon, Spiralfrog, Hulu, etc.. , and failed at every attempt. Why? Because this content is always only available for you to download if you live in the US. I live in Egypt! and I have no idea why you would ***** restrict your content only to the US, if you are against piracy, and trying to reduce piracy. It makes no ***** sense! And also wtf are all those restrictions. You can only watch the content 5 times, burn it 6 times, cannot transfer to this or that. ***** YOU! A BIG ***** YOU!

    You can't say I didn't try MPAA RIAA, whoever the ***** you are! I even tried to order a dvd off Amazon, but ***** you I aint paying 45 $ for a DVD + Shipment!

    Here is my list of demands MPAA, RIAA, IFPI, whoever you 4-initials bitches are..

    1. No geographical restrictions whatsoever
    2. DRM-less, no restrictions whatsoever
    3. Make your movies available for rent, and purchase. Reasonable pricing would be 2-3 $ rent, 6-8 $ purchase. (c'mon you are only paying for bandwidth)
    4. CD Quality DRM-less music (320 kbps or kpbs whatever that ***** is)
    5. make it easy, hassle-free,

    If those demands are not met by let's say mid 2008, I am purchasing 4 2TB WD External Hard Disks, and you'll never see a penny from me.

    **Sorry fellow diggers for my grammar, swearing etc.. english isn't my first language and im a lil bit high...

    • freezerburn819, on 11/24/2007, -4/+26dugg for the last 5 words...
    • SouthsideIrish, on 11/24/2007, -5/+14Why are you blaming us. I listen to mainly Japanese music and I can't buy it online either. I either import 40 or 50 buck CDs or steal it.
    • clokwise, on 11/24/2007, -1/+10I'm a little bit high too right now, but you made perfect sense, and I who heartedly agree with you!!
    • sesstreets, on 11/24/2007, -0/+9Thats one of the better comments I've ever read on digg. Thanks xD
    • MavRevMatt, on 11/24/2007, -0/+6Best comment of the day.
    • Audacitor, on 11/25/2007, -0/+1Your English skillz are superb. And we don't mind swearing here. Not to mention you make every point that the file-sharing community has been trying to pound in to the heads of the MAFIAA for years now.
  • listed, on 11/24/2007, -23/+5You know what! Seriously ***** the MPAA & RIAA.. Here is why.. they are so far behind when it comes to distribution of their content. Recently, I've tried to make an effort of purchasing the movies and music I've downloaded off bittorrent, and that's alot of content that I was willing to legally purchase. I saved up to 1,000 $ and was ready to pay back my dues. I was only paying for the stuff I enjoyed, and stuff worth purchasing. That is the beauty of bittorrent.

    Tried all the different online stores, and places where I can legally purchase or view their content (Zune Marketplace, iTunes, Amazon, Spiralfrog, Hulu, etc.. , and failed at every attempt. Why? Because this content is always only available for you to download if you live in the US. I live in Egypt! and I have no idea why you would ***** restrict your content only to the US, if you are against piracy, and trying to reduce piracy. It makes no ***** sense! And also wtf are all those restrictions. You can only watch the content 5 times, burn it 6 times, cannot transfer to this or that. ***** YOU! A BIG ***** YOU!

    You can't say I didn't try MPAA RIAA, whoever the ***** you are! I even tried to order a dvd off Amazon, but ***** you I aint paying 45 $ for a DVD + Shipment!

    Here is my list of demands MPAA, RIAA, IFPI, whoever you 4-initials bitches are..

    1. No geographical restrictions whatsoever
    2. DRM-less, no restrictions whatsoever
    3. Make your movies available for rent, and purchase. Reasonable pricing would be 2-3 $ rent, 6-8 $ purchase. (c'mon you are only paying for bandwidth)
    4. CD Quality DRM-less music (320 kbps or kpbs whatever that ***** is)
    5. make it easy, hassle-free,

    If those demands are not met by let's say mid 2008, I am purchasing 4 2TB WD External Hard Disks, and you'll never see a penny from me.

    **Sorry fellow diggers for my grammar, swearing etc.. english isn't my first language and im a lil bit high...

    • altrego99, on 11/24/2007, -1/+2Dugg it again! You deserve to be dugg twice!
  • gothsquirrel, on 11/24/2007, -2/+11My question is why would you parody a movie that borderlines on parody itself?
    • tschau, on 11/24/2007, -1/+1I'm glad I'm not the only one who immediately had this question.
    • TyR88, on 11/24/2007, -1/+1Well, you just have to see it for yourself. He did one hell of a job imo
  • Bokista, on 11/24/2007, -0/+3When I first read the headline I couldn't figure out how BitTorrent could be used as a bunch of lawyers. I doubt it passed the bar exam and even so I don't know if I'd want a computer program representing me in a court of law.
  • openpaledot, on 11/30/2007, -0/+0I think its ironic how copyright infringement is touted as stealing from the "author" of the work, in this case Tommy Wirkola. But it is instances like this where we see that it has nothing to do with an authors control over their creative work, but it is all about the distributors goal to have exclusive control of the films market. Not really the expressed reasons to most countries copyright laws.
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