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mtownJan 28, 2012
The feeling's mutual, MPAA! I'm not comfortable with you lobbying to Congress to protect your outdated business model.
massivetatasJan 28, 2012
Regarding the stream capture; if you keep a control share in the sending network, you have to reach back to that network each time you want to play the stream. You may have to rights to play that content X number of times and then you'll never play it again since you'll be cut off from the control share. Should you try to give the captured stream to someone else, the stream wouldn't play because they weren't the original recipient. I have never seen a movie that I cared to play more than a couple of times. You really don't need to "own" it.
mtownJan 28, 2012
I don't really understand. Audials (and other programs like it) rip streams and turn them into AVI's or mpg's.
Programs like Steam let you download games as many times as you want, which is would the movie industry should do.
raiderduckJan 28, 2012
Does this mean they'll stop using the internet to promote their cruddy movies?
johnnysoftwareJan 29, 2012
Apparently, that is all they want it used for.
mcoulter876Jan 28, 2012
Dear MPAA,
You don't know me.
-The Internet
massivetatasJan 28, 2012
Learn how to protect your content and quit making the rest of the Internet miserable. You are an embarrassment to Hollywood. You claim that pirating causes job loss in the industry? Well so does shooting your films in foreign countries. You talk out both sides of your mouth. Now you resort to extortion against law makers. Stop being such a cluster of ass monkeys!
norman619Jan 28, 2012
They can't protect content that is sold publicly. They need to add real value to their product to get more people to buy it.
massivetatasJan 28, 2012
Certainly you can protect content sold to the public and iron clad I might add, the technology exists. Blu-Ray is the last physical media that movies will be delivered on, time to move on. Sorry, but you sound jaded by 1980's IT mentality. And add real value you say? Like another 30 minutes of commercials that you can't fast forward through?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
norman619Jan 28, 2012
BluRay has been cracked and continues to be cracked. ANY and ALL DRM made by man can and will be cracked. Sorry but you just sound technologically ignorant.
massivetatasJan 28, 2012
Had you READ my response, it said that Blu-Ray will be the last physical media. Of course Blu-Ray is susceptible to any kind of brute force attack. With content being streamed, it can be located so no forensically discernible data exists at any location and access to that content can be removed by policy never to be touched again. You can't attack content that is never in one location at any given time. Who said anything about DRM? That is so passe'. So, how long have you been working for the MPAA and are you part of the problem?
mtownJan 28, 2012
Well to be fair, people could just rip the stream to their hard drive. Programs like Audials One ( http://audials.com/en/one/index.html ) already exist for this purpose.
Granted you'll need a decently-powered PC and even then the quality of the rip is gonna be sub-par, but still it could be done.
What the movie industry SHOULD do is make content cheap and easily available like Steam does, and offer one-day only sales every day for 50%-80% off (again, like Steam does) to encourage people to check frequently and make impulse buys.
salbatrossJan 28, 2012
Of course you're not. Much like silent actors probably weren't comfortable with talkies. But guess what...you're going to have to learn to live with it.
protogenxlJan 28, 2012
"My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!"
MPAA Spokesperson
eraptorJan 28, 2012
MPAA execs are dinosaurs who are inacapble of thinking outside if the commercial box they're living in. Instead of embracing technology which opens opportunities for everyone INCLUDING their industry, they attack what they don't understand.
Here's a clue, MPAA "boys", the world (we ALL live in) has changed and if you don't adapt your business model to those changes you risk going extinct AND bankrupt. You need to focus on content QUALITY instead of legislative tyranny/oppression and assuming that those who pirate your merchandise would BUY the crap you routinely put out.
Those of us who love the quality content you generate are HAPPY to pay for it when it is reasonably priced. If you don't believe it, consider the amount of content ROUTINELY sold on iTunes. Speaking of reasonably priced entertainment, what the F' is up with your overinflated ticket prices at movie theaters these days? Are you TRYING to kill movie theaters once and for all? The country is in an economic dowturn that shows no sign of easing any time soon.
johnnysoftwareJan 29, 2012
I glanced at movie ticket prices a couple days ago and they were $15 per seat.
I saw a movie when I was a kid that cost $1.10. The theater ran a PSA at the beginning announcing that the 10 cents was an entertainment tax they were forced to pass onto their customers.
Current ticket prices are absurd and you can eat a delicious, well balanced meal at a restaurant for the price movie theaters charge now for a popcorn and soda.
The prices are just nuts now.
I remember the price of basic cable TV for a month was about what a movie theater charges you to see a single 94 minute movie.
letherialJan 28, 2012
This article proves that you do not need to be smart, creative, or have good ideas to be a executive and make loads of money.
all you got to do is be inside someones rich bubble, and your GTG.
ophelloJan 28, 2012
If the MPAA were to be destroyed by a flood, no one would shed a single tear.
johnnysoftwareJan 29, 2012
It is a trade association not a building.
ophelloJan 29, 2012
I am aware of that. Their homes should still be flooded.
ophelloJan 29, 2012
If the MPAA were to all contract AIDS, no one would shed a single tear.
Closed AccountJan 28, 2012
cause ya cant figure out how to use it or cause ya cant figure out how to get money from it?
matthrJan 28, 2012
Could we write this down, and file in a folder titled s**t we already new.
massivetatasJan 28, 2012
Thanks for pointing this out Captain Obvious! :)
blankmikeJan 28, 2012
This comment probably won't get much reaction but I'd regret not mentioning it. I read the article. I also read some of the comment. The comment in the first position (I think Crade was the author) is incredibly insightful and says a lot about the MPAA. ;-)
maillissnupJan 31, 2012
I agree. There are some other great comments on the article, too :)
MicroBiltJan 30, 2012
Well the answer is not censorship!
jaketyson85Jan 28, 2012
if these fossils would let other people with half a clue about technology run their companies they could be profiting 100x more off the internet. theyre own damn fault!!!1