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- JonForTheWin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23759% of Americans are right.
- BadassCheese, on 10/12/2007, -2/+180I would actually agree with this. Parking in a fire lane could (though very unlikely) cause someone to die in a fire. No one dies when i download a movie.
- Dundasbro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+84Well you arn't actually costing the movie industry anything if you weren't gonna watch the movie in the first place
- SharkyTech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+82I'm quite worried about the 40% that think that piracy is on par with risking the lives of others.
- Vision2098, on 10/12/2007, -20/+88I know something else worse than pirating movies:
Actually buying them. - D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6959% of Americans are right...
Download a movie and cost the movie industry 10 bucks (rounded up for effect)
Park in a fire lane and potentially cost thousand of dollars in property damage and possibly lives in the even of a fire...
you tell me which is worse... - rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+65@Y0tsuya: If hes paying $10 for a hooker, I'd say we just saved him from a nasty rash.
- GonadHunter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+55Is the other 41% the MPAA?
- eonblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+51Perhaps its somewhat related to the recent talk of pushing back movie release dates in canada.
Regardless, im suprised the numbers arnt lower. Then again, that could be just because it's a poll and unless the actual question was included it's a pretty worthless poll.
Not to bash us americans too much, but I'm willing to bet the questions "which is worse downloading copyrighted movies or parking in a fire lane" and "which is worse downloading copyrighted movies illeagly or parking in a fire line" would get slightly different responces.
But parking in a firelane can cost someone their life and/or ruin a car/delay the safe handling of a burning building, downloading a movie illegally could mean 0$ lost profit or it could mean 11$ lost profit (boo hoo). One is more serious to individuals. - matthewsr2000, on 10/12/2007, -3/+52totally agreed.
i just had a flashback to the south park take on piracy, "and (insert stars name here) wont get his (insert outrageously expensive useless thing) like he wanted!!" - Y0tsuya, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44When you download a movie, that's 10 dollars less going into a movie exec's pockets. It's money he could use to spend on a hooker. You're killing his sex life. Would someone please think of the movie executives?
- schroeder, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37Why comment on something you didn't read? Idiot...
- Mitchl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34I think it is a crime that the movie and record producers actually have convinced 41% of Americans that pirating is worse than parking in the fire lane. I am not condoning piracy, and I am not a participant-- but a "serious offense" it is not. Nobody is harmed physically by piracy. The idea that people are paying higher penalties for copying movies or music than someone who commits armed robbery or assault&battery, is really screwed up.
And as far as the fire lane analogy, it is stupid, but that or other "minor" traffic offenses are more serious than piracy. I can draw a causal link from those traffic offenses to possible injury or death. Is the probabilty low of that, sure, but there is zero possibility of someone copying "Turner & Hooch" causing someone's death. - D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29do you proofread your comments before you post them, or do you pride yourself of having remarks dugg down because they make no sense?
- Strongbrau, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Wrong, the CD/DVD won't last as long as your hard drive.
- grayman222, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2041% of american's are retarded? Of course parking in a fire lane is worse. Parking in a fire lane is can cause real damage. Watching a movie that they had no intention of paying for just enhances the life of the pirate.
If this fake lost revenue is hurting movies so badly maybe actors should get paid less accordingly. - estacado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Parking in the fire lane can endanger lives, piracy can enrich lives.
- danz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Well unless you own a maxtor
- jdlewis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Move your vehicle, and we're all good :)
- Tippis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19@ Willy99
"Thou Shalt not steal ...."
...except that downloading copyrighted movies isn't theft, now is it? - tomee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Won't somebody please think of the hookers?
- speezer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15It's ok as long as your car is on fire.
- RamanujanRedux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Oh, but that poor stunt guy in the trailers won't be able to make a living. Why don't you ever think of the stunt guys? Sheesh.
- Arramol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13@Willy99 - Arguments of the difference between theft and copyright infringement aside, pirating movies doesn't have the potential to interfere with emergency services trying to STOP A FIRE. It shouldn't be difficult to figure out which is the bigger offense here.
Oh, and if you insist on debating Scripture, you might note that Romans 13 orders obedience to the law, so the Bible actually DOES forbid parking in the fire lane. - calbff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I think he meant to say "That's the same percentage of people that support Bush - I see a connection here."
Which is completely inaccurate and nonsensical. Translated, this comment is still retarded. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15What does America have to say about me sitting in a fire lane, leeching off someone's WiFi, and downloading 10 movie torrents? WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THAT?!?!
- xamado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11To be honest, the real good guys in any movie making process are the actors, and the director, and they all get a contract payment even before the shooting started, so the only people harmed when you download a movie are the rich executives that have no clue of what movie they just released. And what do they do with the money they earn? They invest it in researching and developing DRM and marketing/convincing manufacturers to implement DRM in their devices... so, ***** em, go download movies people, do the world something good :)
And yes of course, parking in a fire lane is way worse, heck, even speeding or crossing a red light is worse. You could kill people that way, or yourself. - rajulkabir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11No kidding. I think this study is quite alarming. 41% of the population has been brainwashed to believe that it's better to put people's lives at risk than to copy movies.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10*****! Oranges can take on Apples ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. You hear me?
Apples are all a bunch of gay pansies, and they don't have any chance of ever overtaking the market, especially compared to oranges. You stupid Fuji-fanboys just need to shut up and realize that your Apples are stupid. Go get an Orange. Apples don't have anywhere NEAR the vitamin-C of Oranges, anyway. - tomee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10When will this "it's the same as stealing" thing go away? It isn't. I recently downloaded an Asterix movie in French, just to see what the voices sound like. Trust me, I wouldn't have spent a single cent for that. Did I cost the movie industry 10 bucks? Am I a thief now?
- EnsErmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I like how the article spins it as "Americans think downloading no big deal"
Horrible journalism lets compare lives to money, but it brings up a point. Why is the fine for pirating things so harsh? Why not run it like a speeding ticket? Thats about where it relates, you know its wrong, but you do it anyways because you know the chances of you being caught are worth the outcome. - misfit410, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11$12 per person, $6 for a large popcorn, $5 for a drink..
so, tell me who the real pirates are? - ihatemakingscre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The MPAA and RIAA are going to have to face it: they have to change their business models. There is no conceivable change to the technology which could prevent the sharing of "pirated" entertainment; and, there's no real way to enforce any anti-piracy laws.
Its funny how much energy people will expend trying to delay the inevitable, especially in the face of such popular demand. - wakaseoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8What is really surprising is that only 59% people value life more than money.
- FizixMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Maddox?
- bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9In other news 41% of Americans are sheep
- calbff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8This is because 59% of Americans have something known as "common sense" and "perspective", while the other 41% are, well, stupid.
- pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7the other 41% bought into the commercials featuring some poor cameraman saying "downloading movies hurts me" they saw while watching "cribs" on mtv or "outrageous celebrity lifestyles" on vh1
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Because in that case, not only are you costing some multi-national corporation with billions of dollars of capital in reserve a couple bucks, you're costing a local business ten bucks (or more, when you include shipping and other such charges) and the opportunity for anyone in that community without the internet to watch aforementioned movie.
- achoo5000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Just balancing out all those times I spent $12 to actually go to the theater.
- greenreefer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Consider the source. Very poor work there, no link, no other information.
Typical of them, actually.
Surveys are absolutely useless without knowing the questions and controls.
Who was asked, What were they asked, etc.
I can safely predict, for example that a survey done by tow truck drivers
of people who just had their car towed would skew a definite way.
"How do you feel about international terrorists?"
"F*** you, give me my fifty bux back"
Leads to:
"100% of American are more worried about parking their car than catching Osama bin laden" - Tsutsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4With apples, you can choose between red, green, yellow and several shades and combinations in between. Oranges? They're all freaking orange! There are green ones, of course, but you shouldn't really eat those.
Truly, when it comes to the amount of choice you have, apples are the superiour fruit. - takeda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@super_spyder:
Those Average Joe's aren't forced to work there.
If they get screwed, they can always quit. If no Average Joe will want to work for the money the movie industry is going to pay them, then the movie industry will have no choice but increase their salary, or start doing Average Joe's job themselves.
Talking about Average Joe's is just bluff done by movie industry, because nobody will care about executives or movie stars. - jonnyq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The other 41% are considering the consequences to them instead of the consequences to others. The punishment for pirating a movie can be in the tens of thousands. The punishment for parking in the fire lane are however much it takes to get your car out of the impound, and maybe a parking ticket, which will probably add up to a couple hundred dollars. The 41% aren't judging from a moral level or based on the effect on other people, but only on how these actions might affect them.
- Ascendant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5but that story didn't have a snappy statistic in the title, dupe nazi!
- leffunov, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@ Hackwrench
There are some great producers and directors out there today, but everyone knows that actors with no talent can get paid millions of dollars. I don't get why hollywood repeatedly chooses expensive actors with arguably less talent than many supporting actors in independant films. - Vouksh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Really? Then why are my dad's AC-DC cd's scratched to hell, and the ISO of the cd's still sitting on the same HDD that I ripped them onto ~9 years ago?
Honestly, I've had more burnt CD's that last longer than the ones we bought. - hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You're not getting dugg down because you're anti-piracy. You're getting dugg down because you seem to have no basis for thinking that the salaries of the "average joes" justify actors' muilti-million dollar salaries.
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