King Kong vs. Movie Pirates

King Kong vs. Movie Pirates 485

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @12:29AM from the movie-sets-better-than-fort-knox dept.

Caoz writes "The New York Times is running an interesting article about movie piracy with Peter Jackson providing some comments. There a couple of comments that I thought were surprising. Like an executive admitting that file sharers are not the biggest threat to Hollywood. From the article: 'There is a very dark, black cloud in this game. It's not in the hands of kids who live next door to you; it's organized groups and organized crime.' Why are they suing bitorrent users then?"

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Why are they suing bit torrent users... (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @12:31AM (#13442885)

They're assholes.

Nuf said

Why bittorrent users??? (Score:5, Funny)

by mobiux ( 118006 ) writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @12:31AM (#13442889)

Because bittorrent users won't find you and pop a cap in your ass like organized crime sydicates tend to do.

Why? (Score:3, Funny)

by jdwest ( 760759 ) writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @12:34AM (#13442903)

Why are they suing bitorrent users then? Because suing johnusername @ xxx.xxx.xxx.xx has been deemed legal.

Re:Bitorrent User Group (Score:5, Funny)

by Vorondil28 ( 864578 ) writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @12:38AM (#13442937) Journal

Why don't consumers buying/wearing fake branded products get arrested?

Simple, Nike hasn't pushed for it, but the recording/movie industry has. However, I'd be nice if they did.

I, for one, would like to see law enforcement officers ripping counterfeited t-shirts off of materialistic girls.

Re:Bitorrent User Group (Score:5, Funny)

by op12 ( 830015 ) writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @12:47AM (#13442985) Homepage

Yeah, that'll go over well:

"T-shirt inspector!"
*slap*
"No, really! I am a t-shirt inspector!"

bugger.. (Score:1, Funny)

by jefferson_uk ( 790271 ) writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @12:54AM (#13443037)

..and theres me getting all excited, thinking there's an early rip of King Kong out.

Back to the monkey pr0n in the mean time...

Re:Bitorrent User Group (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @01:06AM (#13443108)

"Imagine law enforcement officers roaming the streets and ripping counterfeited t-shirts off materialistic girls."

*blink*

*blink-blink*

*smile*

Piracy protection (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @01:07AM (#13443117)

TFA failed to mention the strongest safeguard against piracy incorporated into the re-release of King Kong: The constant, talentless presence of Jack Black. Put him in every new movie, and nobody would want a bootleg copy.

Of course, it would also kill the theatrical releases, but no plan is perfect.

Come on guys... (Score:4, Funny)

by chriswaclawik ( 859112 ) writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @01:17AM (#13443164)

This wouldn't even be a real contest. I'm betting 5 to 1 on kong, in three rounds.

Re:Bruce Sterling had a great idea in his novel (Score:4, Funny)

by TheLoneDanger ( 611268 ) writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @01:41AM (#13443273)

"All posts marked "Funny" will be mod'ed or metamod'ed down."

Oh, poetic justice is going to be such a wonderful bitch...

Re:Superbowl Counterfeit squads (Score:4, Funny)

by scbysnx ( 837275 ) writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @05:11AM (#13443999)

you're the boss that steals the idea's from the little guy and presents them as his aren't you?

Re:Bitorrent User Group (Score:4, Funny)

by frisket ( 149522 ) writes: <peter@silm a r i l.ie> on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @06:12AM (#13444171) Homepage

> It's a pity they've got their heads up their collective asses. [...] You'd think iTunes would have taught them a lesson.
Never attribute to malice what can sufficiently be explained by incompetence.

Re:Bitorrent User Group (Score:4, Funny)

by TylerL82 ( 617087 ) writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @07:49AM (#13444461) Homepage

Imagine law enforcement officers roaming the streets and ripping counterfeited t-shirts off materialistic girls.

I dream of it every night.

Re:Bitorrent User Group (Score:3, Funny)

by 16K Ram Pack ( 690082 ) writes: <(moc.liamg) (ta) (dnomla.mit)> on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @08:10AM (#13444551) Homepage

Think yourself lucky. At least you didn't watch the whole of Madagascar.

Re:Why are they suing bit torrent users... (Score:4, Funny)

by FidelCatsro ( 861135 ) writes: <.fidelcatsro. .at. .gmail.com.> on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @08:12AM (#13444562) Journal

The real reason they are going after file sharers and not the real organised criminals.
They are easy to catch.
They make nice scapegoats for bad movies
They won't put a bomb in you car

Re:The real reason? (Score:3, Funny)

by Rakshasa Taisab ( 244699 ) writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @08:18AM (#13444592) Homepage

No jury in their right mind would convict someone who downloads Britney Spears and 50 Cents.

Re:Bitorrent User Group (Score:3, Funny)

by mjpaci ( 33725 ) * writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @08:23AM (#13444612) Homepage Journal

Why wouldn't they rip a t-shirt off your chest? Is it your mad informatics skills? Your knowledge of Star Trek? Your chatting on IRC? Why? Why would nobody in their right mind rip a T-shirt off your chest? I it because you're...DUTCH?

Don't leave us hanging...

--Mike

Re:Bitorrent User Group (Score:3, Funny)

by MysteriousPreacher ( 702266 ) writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @11:06AM (#13445753) Journal

Truth. Screwing a dog would be unpleasant for all concerned but at least you know that you're the only human likely to have been boning the animal, depending on where you live of course.

Re:Bitorrent User Group (Score:4, Funny)

by karnal ( 22275 ) writes: on Wednesday August 31, 2005 @11:29AM (#13445985)

That's the equivalent of being "that guy" who during a riot loots a box of Rice Crispies,

Why the hell not? No one is going to miss a box of Rice Crispies!

And they're good, too. Especially if made into cookies!

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