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- virtualonliner, on 11/12/2009, -7/+356Ok, I will start by saying that I hate MPAA/RIAA as much as any other guy here on Digg. But the headline is misleading. MPAA just sent their usual copyright notice ( I am not saying this is good). The town was not ordered by any judge to shut the wireless. They just did it on their own. So blaming it on MPAA is bit too extreme. It's more to do with weak spine of the town than MPAA.
- djskyler, on 11/12/2009, -0/+276And the above article has a link to the full story:
http://www.coshoctontribune.com/article/20091109/U ...
For five years, Coshocton County had a free open Wi-Fi connection out of the courthouse that covered a city block. When Sony Pictures made a download claim against the IP address, said county peed their pants and instantly shut it down. - sango, on 11/12/2009, -4/+189un ***** believable
- Floobins, on 11/13/2009, -1/+93Down with this sort of thing!
- zodieman, on 11/13/2009, -2/+92You'd think a courthouse would know how to tell the MPAA how to ***** off.
- Dubie556, on 11/13/2009, -1/+70When you live in Coshocton county apparently....
- inactive, on 11/13/2009, -5/+61since when is a block an entire town?
- enantiodromia, on 11/13/2009, -2/+44Unless the MPAA had admin access to the towns wireless access points, they didn't actually shut anything down. Someone _decided_ to do what the MPAA asked them to do.
As much as I hate the MPAA, let's put the blame on Coshocton County's leadership for not having the balls, or the clue, to stand up for themselves. - spartan777, on 11/13/2009, -1/+40We're at the point that corporations have more power than the democratic government, although many would argue this stuff has been happening for a while.
- Genma, on 11/13/2009, -7/+37but the sensational blurb sounds even better! tiny defenseless town gets bullied by the mafiaa, entire population now without internet! dmca notices, wifi, public municipal blocks are just minor details that have no relevence to the story whatsoever amiright, what blog spam?
- TxAggie08, on 11/13/2009, -0/+28Quite possibly the internet's most obvious troll.
- Schmich, on 11/13/2009, -2/+28I'm not sure blaming them due to the notice/threat that lead to the shutdown is too extreme. It all depends on what it says on the notice. Something really needs to be done against the MPAA/RIAA. In no other sector does the infrastructure or its laws change because of some badly managed business. It's like if in the beginning of the last century asphalt roads was banned because cars put horse sellers out of business.
"The Government took a random innocent man in jail for life, but it's fine as they didn't take him by force...only threatened to otherwise kill his entire family." - cCPanda, on 11/13/2009, -1/+25 The sad part is that the blurb doesn't sound to extreme for the MPAA to try to do.
- whatthefu, on 11/13/2009, -2/+26Breaking news: the MPAA is run by ***** idiots.
- diggnidy, on 11/13/2009, -0/+23SHUT.DOWN.EVERYTHING.
- inactive, on 11/13/2009, -0/+23It wasn't the MPAA. IT was Sony Pictures Entertainment. Stop letting these companies hide behind a whipping boy.
- feelmypimphand, on 11/13/2009, -3/+25Protect the corporations = capitalism / free market
Protect the people = communism
/s (For you right wingers) - mrbroli, on 11/13/2009, -4/+24Title should read: Illegal movie download forces shutdown of court house's free Wi-Fi
Overblown title ftl. - MWeather, on 11/13/2009, -0/+19"It's like if in the beginning of the last century asphalt roads was banned because cars put horse sellers out of business."
Or if hemp was banned because it cut into DuPont's nylon profits. Wait, that actually happened. - AFCdtLoeb, on 11/13/2009, -2/+20The MPAA is doing a super awesome job at winning those hearts and minds!
- Junior612, on 11/13/2009, -0/+17My pop emailed me this story with this to say:
"As a solution to illegal downloading this simply isn't good enough. First, crucify the mayor and scourge all the village trustees. Then, nuke em all
and they'll never do it again. That'll teach 'em to mess with hollywood!"
With a slightly better article: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/MPAA-Movie-Download-Oh ... - DagonwebNL, on 11/13/2009, -1/+17I think this qualifies as terrorism?
- captininsanity, on 11/13/2009, -0/+16When a town is an entire block...
- spookyttws, on 11/13/2009, -2/+17That's pretty ***** up. But is anyone really surprised? Download smart, people. Install PeerGaurdian, make sure SafePeer is installed in your BitTorrent client and use both a hardware and software firewall. I'm not saying downloading pirated material is alright, but if your going to do it, be smart. It's like sex with a whore: it's illegal, and you may even feel bad about it, but pay with cash and wear a condom.
- rocknog, on 11/13/2009, -3/+18Corporations have so much power BECAUSE of the government.
- adjames, on 11/13/2009, -0/+15/s ?
- skinturtle, on 11/13/2009, -1/+15Look you ***** pipe of stinking cheese....the movie industry is making money hand over fist these days...charging outrageous sums of money for tickets (a price they would charge anyways even if their were no piracy) they now have advertising revenue from ads before the movie as well as from product placement in their movies.
They make money on the ticket sales and then from PPV and DVD sales afterward. Don't tell me that they are losing money because that's a horrendous amount of lying bullshiat!!! - mike0k, on 11/13/2009, -3/+17Dear MPAA,
***** YOU!!!!!
Kind Regards,
Everyone - Pixelante, on 11/13/2009, -0/+13When it's done by corporations it cannot be called terrorism, citizen. Recant your statements immediately or our security guards will bust your head open and rape your eyesockets.
- qazws, on 11/13/2009, -6/+18MPAA illegally hacking into wi-fi, its against the law.
- Apokalyps2547, on 11/13/2009, -0/+12Buried faster than Jimmy Hoffa.
- rushover, on 11/13/2009, -4/+16MPAA / RIAA can suck Twitter's balls.
- snapcase, on 11/13/2009, -0/+11Regardless, it shall be dugg down.
- Niacin, on 11/13/2009, -8/+18I depise the MPAA/RIAA's efforts. It's despicable money-grubbing, and I hope artists start abandoning these institutions in droves and let their fans and personal talent determine how successful they are.
Despite that, this is spin-zone propaganda. Buried! - Memnochxx, on 11/14/2009, -1/+11Maturity has nothing to do with it.
- DestroyedAUS, on 11/13/2009, -0/+10A perfect example of why people need to read articles before they comment.... And terrible secondary sources.
- Timbo2702, on 11/13/2009, -0/+10What do you mean breaking? I knew this well over a year ago
- greevar, on 11/13/2009, -2/+12If the entertainment industry would just come to their senses, lower their prices, and abandon DRM, piracy wouldn't be as prevalent. Steam proves this point very well. When they lower the price of a game on Steam, they sell a lot more copies than they would have at the industry ideal price of $60. Piracy is a direct result of the industry not listening to their customer base. That's why we have cracked copies of DRM protected media all over the bittorrent network. Instead of selling a game at $60 or a movie/album at $20, why not sell it a $30 and $5 respectively. Then, sit back and watch what happens. With a game selling for $30, I could certainly buy two games with that $60 I had to pay for one game. At $5 for a movie, if it's a good release week, I might be willing to purchase ten DVDs. If people feel like they're getting more value for their money, they actually spend more than a product at a higher price. That's been a well known fact amongst marketers. By setting their prices at these ethereal $60 and $20 price points, they actually drive customers away from their product. "I can't afford to blow $20 on a new movie" could change to "I can get ten movies for $50!"
- Pixelante, on 11/13/2009, -0/+10A ***** idiot with tons of money > a thousand penniless geniuses.
- Murrabbit, on 11/13/2009, -2/+11***** THE MPAA
- sheldonnbbaker, on 11/14/2009, -0/+9Huh?
- DDRSkata, on 11/14/2009, -2/+10@newchap: So it's maturity to shut down an entire network because of one person's actions? That's like saying if someone shoplifts, they should shut down the entire mall. And that's not even a proper analogy, because the MPAA doesn't actually lose anything through downloads.
- robdazomba, on 11/13/2009, -1/+9I'm not certain what this is all about but I'm sure I'm against it.
- richlw, on 11/13/2009, -0/+8With teh gibsons
- ru155, on 11/13/2009, -0/+7Seriously terrible reference to the Geneva Convention. Wasn't the GC to set standards nation's conduct in war? Fat FAIL on outrageous reference.
- SpazAttack5000, on 11/13/2009, -2/+9No ***** the MPAA comments yet? Whew....
- elmuerte17, on 11/13/2009, -0/+7Those notices are a joke. I once received one at my old position of IT admin for our office regarding the uncapped seeding of a torrented movie one of the tenants had forgotten over the weekend. I replied that I would make fun of him for downloading such a crappy movie and got the generic form letter thank-you reply.
- greevar, on 11/13/2009, -1/+7There's no such thing as "at cost" when it comes to content. The more copies they sell, the more the cost is divided amongst the profits of each sale. It might cost $8,000 (hypothetically) to produce an album, but if they sell 100,000 copies, the cost per copy is $0.08. So it's always reasonable to reduce the price. The industry are just not willing to look for that equilibrium price. Rather, they want to keep the price artificially high by blaming piracy.
- Funkleft, on 11/13/2009, -1/+7I think the import part there though is that a town is afraid of businessmen. The fact that the town would sooner shut it down out of fear than even begin to argue says a lot for the way they're intimidating people.
- Pixelante, on 11/13/2009, -2/+8In the beginning of the last century, horse sellers were not an organized lobby with a ginormous amount of money at their disposal, so they couldn't do a damn thing about it. Had they been as rich and powerful as the media industry today, automobile proponents would have been jailed or executed, and the mere possession of car blueprints would have been punished by death.
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