don't forget a complete game that is actually broken down into 16 pieces of DLC and completely glitched and broken to hell that they expect for us to pay full price for.Snotnarok said:
Feds Using Seized Domains to Promote Anti-Piracy PSA
- Thread starter Scott Bullock
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I never saw the IT Crowd before. This is amazing, Thank you for showing me an amazing show, i started watching them on netflix... they are great!Andronicus said:
OT: These videos seem a tad bit extreme. I half expected him to say " There are little children starving because you are pirates!"The video was really hard to take seriously it felt like a parody.
Basically, ^this^.Scott Bullock said:
OT: What Scott said along with the added:
Why can't they ever make any legitimately good Anti-Piracy ads? XD
I know people that pirate because of them being so shite. :L
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This. thisthisthisthisthis.rembrandtqeinstein said:
How is that inappropriate? Government agencies protect property rights. Police bust shoplifters, courts enforce copyright claims, the only real difference is that in this case the internet characterizes one as the big bad evil monster thats standing in the way of free art.008Zulu said:The whole government is an arm of the content mafiaa.Centrophy said:What's inappropriate is ICE (a government agency) being an arm of the MPAA (a group made up of private companies.)
Honestly I don't really see people like the MPAA as that greedy, at least not compared to the people who download movies and games. I mean, what's greedier than thinking that you have an inalienable entitlement to any amount of luxury items that you want at no charge?
And, as for the "copying is not theft" video and argument...pretty stupid. I mean, really stupid. Basically completely missing the point of everything. Piracy isn't a form of larceny, so saying its not theft is like saying its not murder. Technically true but pointlessly oblivious. If you snuck onto a train without buying a ticket that would not be theft either, but that is still breaking a law. And you can't do it for the obvious reason that if that was possible then running a train would be an impossible business to sustain and would shut down.
If you really, really believe that IP law is a shambles (which, strangely, nobody seemed to say until the internet made large scale piracy easily accessible) then say that. But saying "Copying is not Theft" just makes you look like you have no understanding of the actual issue.
She loses her job? Her job as what? A paid actress for this PSA? If it weren't for piracy she wouldn't even HAVE this job.
people that make movies are being payed to play their part, if you download a movie the only people that are going to lose money are the licenser's (excluding direct to DVD movies).
Unless I suck at this stuff Piracy isn't going to harm anyone (with the exception of games where 100% there is no alternative to theater movies)
Besides people who pirate don,t watch this stuff making this completely useless.
PS
why would they post it on sites that have been taken down?
I would asume these site,s where probaly abandoned a long time ago due to the removal of pirated content.
Unless I suck at this stuff Piracy isn't going to harm anyone (with the exception of games where 100% there is no alternative to theater movies)
Besides people who pirate don,t watch this stuff making this completely useless.
PS
why would they post it on sites that have been taken down?
I would asume these site,s where probaly abandoned a long time ago due to the removal of pirated content.
What annoys me is that the seizure occurred under the auspices of Homeland Security, a branch of the government whose domain and powers seem ever increasingly and disturbingly vague.
What they do with the domains after the quasi-legal seizure is pretty much gravy.
What they do with the domains after the quasi-legal seizure is pretty much gravy.
soo.... to show how much money they lose because of piracy, they are spending money on this kind of stunts? because im pretty sure that if they wouldnt spend money on this, that woman wouldnt have to lose her job one way or another. me see no logic here....
Sorry I can't hear you over the game I paid for, but can't play because I'm out of installs. Which I guess is fine because I have these here other games these cartridges that don't have limited playing.Shadow-Phoenix said:
Or the copy of Black Ops I couldn't play for 5 months because they listed Dual Core as supported, and it wasn't and I had to wait for a patch.
Or for Borderlands which took ...what 3-4 months to get the online working?
Or the people who bought Capcom games on the PSN, but can't play because the PSN is down.
I dunno, I find it hard to weep for the actress portrayed as a microphone worker in the video as well as the actor playing the consumer jerk in the video when they're not real and representing companies that even with crazy pirating still make insane amounts of money that mostly go to the billionaire CEOs anyway.
>implying this is anything but 100% stagedJumplion said:
I don't think that woman is even a real boom mic operator, though actually getting the mic operator to stand there would probably be cheaper than hiring an actor.
All of these responses are 100% bullshit as REALLY who the hell would accept "free DVDs" on the street? When they can download them from a reputable source in a file that is far easier to move from device to device! Also get it anonymously and with far more accountability.
