torrentfreak.com — The MPAA have responded to the claims that they illegally used Patrick Robin's blogging software. They say they were only testing it, and that the blog was "never advertised to the public in any way". I wonder what would happen if a filesharer said he was just "testing" a movie.
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m3mn0nFeb 28, 2007
Uh, that's called "renting" you know, it's been around for ages.And there is a distinct difference between using a *freely available* web application and downloading a movie that costs money and costed millions to make.How you all see this as justification for stealing movies is beyond me. And it's quite funny reading these comments.The MPAA lawyers don't collectively make decisions involving the web development process, so this wasn't their doing. It was just some a-hole web designer who couldn't build his own web app and didn't want to give credit where it is due (most talentless hack web designers are like that).People will say or do anything to bash the MPAA and try to justify downloading for free. heh
atomic1fireFeb 28, 2007
A random Movie Pirate:I was only testing _____ if it was any good I would have payed for it
Closed AccountMar 1, 2007
Not only does the MPAA suck for the obvious reasons, they also have crappy taste in blog software. Amusing.
Closed AccountMar 1, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://www.patrickrobin.co.uk/default.asp?Display=5">http://www.patrickrobin.co.uk/default.asp?Display=5</a> (MPAA Update)a little more about this
aptmunichMar 1, 2007
Sue 'em!AND THEIR GRANDMOTHER'S!
phillesh69Mar 1, 2007
I develop commercial web sites for an international wire service. We sometimes use "open source" or "link ware" or other types of outside software. The biggest sin we can commit, as web developers, is to remove any form of copyright comments, links,etc, unless we compensate the original author. It is common to cut and paste other people's code to accomplish a procedure in our code, but we always either contact the author to see what he wants us to pay him or we leave intact any comments attributing that author.In fact, we actually fired a guy for stripping out the original author's comments from a complex FTP procedure. It is just bad form, it is not what web developers believe in. We will share our work with others in a spirit of community or for building off of other's works, but we don't like being ripped off, either.Not to mention, if I worked for the MPAA, whose sole purpose is to create an environment of absolutely zero tolerance towards "piracy", I would just automatically know that any work I do must follow that corporate policy, I would not load winzip with a bogus serial, I would not use a bogus copy of dreamweaver, and I wouldn't include snippets of code in my code that I could not legally use.I do that already, at the wire service I work for, I do not use any code that I cannot legally use. If I have to buy it, I tell my manager and he decides whether or not to purchase the license. This is, intrinsically, what the MPAA is demanding of everyone else. Yet they don't seem to be able to follow their own demands.
IllBeBackMar 1, 2007
Oh yes, ya honor. I was just "testing" that MP3 file."Case dismissed." *gavel!*
btiplingMar 1, 2007
Why do you people believe this torrent freak site? It's a marketing scam, there is absolutely no evidence to indicate the MPAA ever used the blog. This is so ridiculous. This never happened. It is all a bunch of lies. Digg is populated by a horde of morons.
dmitriyvozJun 25, 2007
i tested apocolypto 4 times last week. that was just preliminary testing, i will finish my report over the next 7 to 10 years and then ill let everyone know if it passed. The same theme on Russian sites: <a class="user" href="http://pivo.in.ua">http://pivo.in.ua</a> <a class="user" href="http://www.alcogol.kiev.ua">http://www.alcogol.kiev.ua</a>