I guess that means movie theaters better shut down too because ‘pirates’ might smuggle video recorders in and then make billions of dollars freely sharing crappy recordings of the backs of their fellow viewers heads with billions of other people who would otherwise never have watched th- no, that’s wrong, I meant to say people who might like it and go see it for thems- no, that’s not right either, ok, perhaps they’ll share it with people who can’t afford to… um… well anyway they’re sharing it with SOMEONE and that’s definitely some sort of horrible war crime. Think of the children!

of course they do not care, in fact, the problem to them it it is piracy if you say they suck or are wrong (or what they call Promoting Piracy), they can’t make money off your fan stuff, hell even if you put music in your videos, music that you legally bought it off iTunes, still “Piracy” and then say “You have to follow the disclaimer and royalty policy” even though YOU DID WORD BY WORD, and you know whats more sick, even with the censorship they try to give the illusion that “Your rights have not been repealed at all!” just to laugh in your face.

IP extremists don’t only care about stopping infringement, they want to ban all venues competition period. Outside teh Internet, through government established broadcasting and cableco monopolies and through a one sided penalty structure that deters restaurants and other venues from hosting independent performers (without paying some parasite third party a licensing fee) and that even deters bakeries from allowing children to draw custom images on birthday cakes, this is exactly what they have managed to accomplish. and they want to do nothing less than turn the Internet into the same plutocracy they have turned everything outside the Internet into.

Nobody needs these parasite thugs, their need is only artificial. It’s only through government established monopolized content distribution channels that they have managed to gain such a market dominance, otherwise others will create and distribute content without them, which is exactly what they don’t want.

In reference to the MAFIAA, I’ll just quote the unforgettable Arnold J. Rimmer:

“It’s like a blind, old, incontinent sheepdog that’s had its day. You just take it out to the barn with a double-barreled shotgun and blow the mother away.”

And then there’s Lister (well, technically, Inquisitor-Lister):

“Get outta this one, smeghead.”

Paraphrasing the Cat:

“That’s it! They’re deader than corduroy!”

And last, but not least, Kryten:

“I would like to take this opportunity to tell you that you are the most obnoxious, trumped-up, farty little smeghead it has ever been my misfortune to encounter!”

I had never downloaded a torrent in my life.. until the Content Industry tried to push through laws like SOPA, PIPA, ACTA ect. Now I never intend to pay for content again.

The fact they tried to pay the Government to push this through is absurd and they all should be under investigation right now. Chris Dodd is a F wit for the way he talks about internet users like we are children.

EVERY industry and company in the world needs to constantly evolve to stay alive. Hollywood are stuck witha business model and supply chain that is 50 years out of date, and somehow belive they should be exempt from change because they pay politicians to look after their interests.

Until Hollywood come up with a system where content is available much cheaper, instantly around the globe, and downloadable in a format where it can be shared among devices easily, they do not deserve to make any money from me.

content protection? no, more like content censorship. it’s not as much the fact that one of thier ‘properties’ might be on these sites as it is that indie movie makers use these sites to distribute their films which the mpaa has cleverly kept them from having any other distribution method. so since these film makers have the audacity to not become members of the mpaa, the mpaa has no choice but make sure they have no way for ppl to see their films.