The Two Towers Hits the Net 893
tfreport writes "The Drudge Report is reporting that The Two Towers has already began to be file swapped online. This is four months before the movie is set to debut! An executive in New York promised if this is indeed part of the film that they would be punishing anyone and everyone that downloads the film or distributes it to the full extent of the law."
4 months? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:1, Funny)
In other news... (Score:0, Funny)
Hollywood, CA - Copies of Spider-Man 2 have been discovered circulating in IRC and on pirate sites. Experts say this is the first time a movie has been pirated before it has even been filmed. Movie pirates infiltrated Raimi's home while he slept. They used an advanced EEG imaging system along with Apple's new QuickTime 6.0 beta with Brain2Vid technology to capture the movie. Pirates then edited out the unnecessary portions of what they captured such as images of Raimi's mother yelling at him because he forgot to take out the garbage.
Director Sam Raimi has confirmed that this is indeed the movie he is about to film. "I knew I shouldn't think about what I'm going to film. Now it's loose on the Internet. I doubt the sequel will be able to break the $500,000 mark in 2 weeks now. I'm just really glad I didn't have that goat dream."
"This is outrageous," said MPAA president Jack Valenti, "These criminals by releasing the film before it has been released are not only stealing revenue from the producers but also ruining the movie goers magical experience. If the pirates do this to enough movies then the summer blockbuster season will seem like a cavalcade of unoriginal dreck which I admit isn't much of a change but still!"
Initial reviews of the film have been extremely positive. "Usually sequels don't live up to the first film unless you count Aliens, Terminator 2, The Empire Strikes Back and a few others, but this one really exceeds the expectations created by the first," exclaimed Jolly Roger in IRC.
According to one Internet research firm says the film was downloaded over 700,000,000 times in less than 14 hours and will cost the studio at least $5 trillion in lost revenue. "We stand by our numbers even if they might see a tad exaggerated. We really need the press," a spokesperson for the firm said.
Pirates have also tried to steal Episode III from George Lucas' brain for several months, but keep coming away with a blank screen.
Spoilers? (Score:5, Funny)
Scary stuff... (Score:5, Funny)
*shivers in fear*
Hopefully, no executives from New York dressed in black will come into my innocent house in northern Sweden to punish me to the maximum extent of the law.
Well I looked (Score:1, Funny)
Damn it.
Re:You'll only screw yourselves... (Score:3, Funny)
but... no smoking..
We will punish EVERYONE! (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, I don't really have any desire to see a crappy copy beforehand. The first film was good enough that I'd like the full-on experience of seeing it in the theater. But I will go ahead and see if I can find the trailer somewhere, just for kicks.
In order to combat the effects of piracy... (Score:5, Funny)
</tasteless>
Re:Useless (Score:5, Funny)
Executive: Look! There's another one...
Judge: *sigh*
Executive: I dunno who this 'Peer' guy is, but he's good at covering up his tracks.
Re:Well... (Score:2, Funny)
COOL! ITS THE DVD! I'M DOWNLOADING IT NOW! (Score:5, Funny)
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If it's 4 months before the release now, I'm going to be able to see it a full *3 months* before the rest of you suckers!
Laugh all you want, but I know whose door *you'll* be knocking on, come September 28th, once the download is complete!
-- Terry
Erm... (Score:3, Funny)
I think all this nonsens about ring to be vastly inflated, I was dragged along to see number 1 and wasn't impressed. I'll be dragged a long to see number 2 and i suspect I won't be to impressed there either.
And whats with this supposed power of that ring? I haven't seen any special powers, ok it makes Bilbo invisible, but that's it apparently! Does it shoot laser beams! Does it move mountains! Can it make them fly (hell no, they have to walk!) - face it, its just a cheap trinket Sauron had crafted to impress the chicks down at Ye Olde Drunken Dragon Cafe.
Oh, and want a real spoiler? The ring did it!
Re:Why do SLASHDOTers think is is okay to steal? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Useless (Score:2, Funny)
That's even worse. I own and operate a theatre. I get calls once in a while, "Hello, can I talk to Mrs. Jones please? She said she was going to the show tonight."
Now what? I don't know what Mrs. Jones looks like, and even if I did there are 150 people in the auditorium, the auditorium is dark and everyone is facing away from you so all you can see is the back of everyone's head. Would you like me to interrupt the movie for everyone, "Paging Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones please come to the lobby for an important phone call!"
I tell people that we don't have a facility to page someone but if they would like they can come to the theatre and take a look and see if they can find the person they are looking for. 99.99% of the time the response is, "Well, I guess I will wait until later then."
In my entire life running theatres I have delibertately interrupted a movie only three times. Once was when the police showed up to arrest someone who was believed to "hiding out" in the theatre. Once was when someone's car was on fire right in front of the door. And the third time was when the police and Family Services came in with an apparently abandoned/neglected child who said that Mommy was at the show.