Feds Using Seized Domains to Promote Anti-Piracy PSA

[Ashendarei]

"We refuse to upgrade to the digital world, CRY FOR USSSSS!"

Agree with this Not that I condone piracy in and of itself, but really, gov't needs to get their shit together in regards to RIAA, FCA, and other similar organizations.

 

[aashell13]

Now maybe this is just me, but the repurposing of websites that were seized using a method deemed dubiously legal at best to pimp a video seems downright inappropriate. While Homeland Security surely has the right to do with the sites what it will, that's just bad PR.

This doesn't make sense. Does ICE have the right to do as they please with seized domains or not? First you call the legality of the seizure into doubt and in the very next sentence say that Homeland Security can do whatever they want.

OT: I'm ambivalent about piracy. One the one hand it is theft, after a fashion; on the other hand the content providers bring a lot of it on themselves with various anti-customer policies which drive people to piracy for reasons that have little or nothing to do with wanting a free movie.

 

[AhumbleKnight]

I wonder how many movie industry jobs have been lost due to costs of anti-piracy ads vs piracy itself.

 

[Dogstile]

Oh I love this.

"here, take this movie, but if you do it, she loses her job"

"ok" *takes one*

"You have no soul!"

"Yeah, says the guy who's stood outside, advertising free dvds in an effort to try and make somebody like me look bad. Well done asshole, now who's morally dubious".

 

[ProjectTrinity]

Let me just be the jerk in the room and say:

I'm better than most pirates. ^_^

I don't believe in justifying my actions if I personally feel like they're kindergarten excuses. Especially that one saying "We weren't going to buy it anyways". I can honestly see the hypothetical situation of more and more studios falling like Geneon due to piracy (apologies, Geneon was just a "bad" studio that couldn't survive...even if people loved their stuff. ^_^) and basically coming up with "They all fell because they no one was going to buy it anyways." <--Naturally, this hasn't happened yet, but I'd bet some really pretty pennies that said logic would come up. There's an excuse for everything~

Pirates who buy what they like, though (which by the way are *NOT* all of them), are cooler in my books~

/Flame shields UP

 

[razer17]

Maybe they should mention the repercussions of the record profits that film companies make every bloody year.

 

[Baradiel]

Oh, seriously? As a non-American, can I respectfully ask Homeland Security to fuck off ?

Why is America given dominion over international domains? Instead of useless cyber attacks on irrelevant things, if Anon truly promotes freedom of the internet they should do something about this. What they could do, I've no idea, but it irritates me no end when I see yet another American finger in another non-American pie.

 

[razer17]

Let me just be the jerk in the room and say:

I'm better than most pirates. ^_^

Pirates who buy what they like, though (which by the way are *NOT* all of them), are cooler in my books~

/Flame shields UP

From that post I can't tell if you are saying that you do pirate, but are better than others because you don't make excuses, or if you think your better than pirates because you aren't one.

If it's the latter then your elitism is misplaced and makes you look like a major douche. If it's the former your the same as the rest of the pirates. A nazi is a nazi, a football player is a football player, and a pirate is a pirate.

Studios only fail when they do not make good films. Yes, people lose their jobs, but the entertainment industry has always been an industry where you can lose your job as soon as the film you're on is wrapped up.

The entertainment industries are lucrative, and they break their own profit records pretty often. Most major pictures (the ones most likely to be pirated) have their budgets completely paid off purely from theatre takings anyway.

 

[thisbymaster]

This is a waste of tax payer money, if the RIAA wants to fork over the cash all the better but don't waste my money dealing with copyright infringement. Pirates are not lost sales, they are poorly served customers that companies would rather no money compared to some money.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

If I wasn't told that was a serious video I would think it is a joke. Like that Jack Black one.

 

[ryo02]

using guilt trips so they can continue to make more money than some countries kind of a dick move if you ask me. not to mention the things he said an the way he said it ... pretty obviouse there more to it.

I dont pirate but you have to have standards in how you counter it too.

 

[jpoon]

This video is total bullshit. Nice try govt, keep on pushing your weak ass snitch society ideals.

 

[icame]

Am I the only one that finds this wildly ironic. "We are going to pirate your site to stop piracy ARHG" Course we aren't really stopping piracy we're just talking about it.

...How is taking hold of a site legally piracy?...

 

[ProjectTrinity]

Let me just be the jerk in the room and say:

I'm better than most pirates. ^_^

Pirates who buy what they like, though (which by the way are *NOT* all of them), are cooler in my books~

/Flame shields UP

From that post I can't tell if you are saying that you do pirate, but are better than others because you don't make excuses, or if you think your better than pirates because you aren't one.

If it's the latter then your elitism is misplaced and makes you look like a major douche. If it's the former your the same as the rest of the pirates. A nazi is a nazi, a football player is a football player, and a pirate is a pirate.

Studios only fail when they do not make good films. Yes, people lose their jobs, but the entertainment industry has always been an industry where you can lose your job as soon as the film you're on is wrapped up.

The entertainment industries are lucrative, and they break their own profit records pretty often. Most major pictures (the ones most likely to be pirated) have their budgets completely paid off purely from theatre takings anyway.

And a murderer is a murderer.
A thief is a thief. [/Sentence is no relation to topic]
A cartoon is a cartoon.
A crybaby is a crybaby.
A hacker is a hacker.
A pirate is a pirate.

If you want to say that every person is the exact same level in every situation, you are free to, but I certainly see many~ ways there could be a gray area where I'd be willing to say that one murderer deserves to live FAR more than another murderer. Or that one hacker is amazing to the gaming industry compared to say, Geo. I'd strongly argue that they aren't the same, at all.

As for the justifications/excuses, I also respect a pirate much more if he said "Yep, I was going to buy it, but because it's free to download..." or someone who had to pirate once or twice because of some weird computer/financial situation at home compared to say someone that has a list ready to bark on why they pirate just for the sake of barking.

I absolutely refuse to say they're all one on the same level. There's too many gray areas in every category I listed up above.

 

[Denamic]

That is one of the most retarded PSAs I've ever seen.