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- LazyBeachBum, on 05/23/2009, -0/+24I can understand making DISTRIBUTION of a digital movie illegal (illegal file sharing), but I bought the DVD. I'd like to be able to make a copy so I can watch in on something else beside my DVD player. i.e. Stream it to my TV, portable player, laptop or whatever. When I buy any other type of media, i "own" it, why not my DVD?
I don't have any love for REAL, but I'm not sure beating up them is gonna make a big dent in the illegal torrents anyway... - bpvancouver, on 05/23/2009, -0/+21I can backup LPs, Cassettes, CDs, MP3s, VHS, photos... but DVDS? I buy the right to view and that right only exists for the life of the media? DVDs get scratched and broken (even had a 2 year old step on one?). The movie biz needs to take a long hard look at the last 10 years of mp3/torrent realities before assuming they can/will always control media distribution.
- Cerebron, on 05/23/2009, -3/+20Every time a commercial for a new movie on DVD plays, the announcer says 'own it on DVD and Blu-Ray now!'
"When you buy a movie, you buy a copy of the movie, not the movie itself." - Doesn't this admit to a lot of false advertising? - philodygmn, on 05/22/2009, -0/+14^
"This case is about Real trying to take money that is not theirs," Williams said. "When you buy a movie, you buy a copy of the movie, not the movie itself."
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Oh, that's rich, idnit? You get a copy -- SO WHY CAN'T YOU DO WITH IT WHAT YOU WILL?!!!!! - t3rmv3locity, on 05/23/2009, -1/+9***** THE MPAA
- maz2331, on 05/23/2009, -0/+7Bingo!
Backup copies or format shifting are not piracy at all. - Tarkaan, on 05/23/2009, -1/+8"Real reduces the cost of a DVD to zero if you borrow it or $3.99 if you rent it," said Motion Picture Association of America lawyer Bart Williams, quoting from earlier testimony." Of course... And a .45 caliber bullet reduces the life span to zero. It's got nothing to do with the guy that pulled the trigger. Causality, causation, logic, why are my taxpayer dollars being spent on this crap?
- skipvt, on 05/23/2009, -1/+6The rich just want to get richer.
- Loonacy, on 05/23/2009, -0/+3This just in:
Something might happen but we don't know what. More details later. - tgc1, on 05/23/2009, -0/+2I just don't understand why the Media Industry doesn't just try its best to make the best damn product it can and sell it at a reasonable price. There is no need for obscene, unsustainable profits.
- morepowerr, on 05/23/2009, -1/+3I will never get over the fact that most of these ***** think thy should be able to make money off the same item 3-4 time. Lent me get something throw to all you movie and music people. If some one like you music they will pay to go to your show. If people really wont to see you movie they will go to your show. CD's/DVD are little more then ad's for the show. So you jerks are crying about not being able to charge people for looking at or hearing your ad's for your shows.
It is a lot like Mac D's charging you to buy the hamburger. And then charging you to eat the damn thing.
When some eat place says that will be 1.99 for the food and another 1.99 if you would like to eat it. How long you think that place would stay in business. Not damn long. - inactive, on 05/23/2009, -2/+4If it wasn't for unions you would be working for $1 a day in the USA.
They don't care about you at all, at all, at all...
Money is like a population. Once it starts growing it becomes exponential. These ***** don't need your help..
BTW The actor who played Darth Vader in Star Wars NEVER GOT PAID! Not a single dime ever for what he did and created. The studio jibbed him using Legalese on the contract..
At all.. - Gotar, on 05/23/2009, -0/+2I get what you mean, even though your message was hard to read. English may not be your first language.
DRM is really a scam to charge for the same thing more than once. All in the name of the **AA. They never consider that the reason some people pirate is because they don't like to have to pay for a song/album they can't copy to another one of their own computers or from a backup. Even on DVDs to play them on your computer you have to install anti-piracy software, preventing you from making a fair-use copy for yourself or sometimes even playing it on another PC. I think most of this inflated lost profit ***** from their trials is based on the idea that they can charge for the same product multiple times.
Really though I think the only way to stop **AA is to stop buying/watching their products. Pirating them doesn't really help because they'll claim the lost profits crap. Just stop buying it. Don't put up with DRM. - Chewie67, on 05/23/2009, -0/+2This is a basic case of consumer protection.
I'm not a lawyer, so I leave it to the "experts" to write the proper wording, but if I pay $15 for a movie, I should be able to watch it WHERE I want, WHEN I want, as OFTEN as I want.
That means copying it from a DVD to my iPhone, my Laptop or my PS3. That also means being able to SELL that DVD when I no longer want it.
I'm fine with making it illegal to put it out on BitTorrent. I'm also fine with deleting the files from my iPhone, Laptop and PS3 when I sell the DVD. Fair is fair.
I'm not fine with this "You don't own the movie" crap. If I don't own it, then don't make me pay for it. We have rental companies for you to distribute your movie if you don't want me to own it. - inactive, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1hell yeah, cyber terrorism aka cyber big brother!
http://www.pitbullpoker.com/ - inactive, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1always dugg when someone says that.
- skipvt, on 05/24/2009, -1/+1Sure I’d like to be rich, but screwing Joe-bag-o-doughnuts in the process to do it is wrong.
- inactive, on 05/23/2009, -3/+3MPAA funds terrorism.
- kajoob, on 05/23/2009, -2/+2You say that like it's a bad thing. I'm sure you go through life not wanting to make more money.
- rdaryl, on 05/23/2009, -4/+1I don't use RealPlayer anymore, so i think RealNetworks is definitely gonna lose this and RealDVD will be banned permanently.
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