May I draw your attention to the case of Richard O'Dwyer who is to be extradited to the USA for alleged copyright offences.
There is an on-line petition running which was started by Jimmy Wales the Wikipedia founder. It's at
http://www.change.org/en-GB....richard
I think this matter concerns us as British subjects and as Internet users. Please have a look and see if you feel as angry as I do.
Edgar Iredale
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Don't think it will go ahead. He didn't put any content up himself, sounds like a witch hunt, trying to scare people.
Everyone knows movies are better in the cinema.
Cinema revenues and profits have only ever increased despite pirating.The avengers was downloaded by 500,000 people a week before release, possibly a record, and it didn't stop that breaking box office records. The MPAA seriously claim that they're losing 3 billion in revenue to piracy, even though they only take in 10 billion.
More people might go to the cinema if they stopped releasing contstant sh*tty sequels, prequels and reboots too and changed their pricing model. I remember an article about the computer game unreal tournament being sold for something like £5-10 on steam (compared to the usual £30) and they sold many more copies that they actually more profit than when the game was originally released and sold for £30.
Hell, I download movies just so I don't have to watch 10 minutes of annoying piracy adverts that can't be skipped and I download computer games so I don't have to f*ck about with their retarded copy protections that actually made games unplayable for people with legitimate copies.
Everyone knows movies are better in the cinema.
Cinema revenues and profits have only ever increased despite pirating.The avengers was downloaded by 500,000 people a week before release, possibly a record, and it didn't stop that breaking box office records. The MPAA seriously claim that they're losing 3 billion in revenue to piracy, even though they only take in 10 billion.
More people might go to the cinema if they stopped releasing contstant sh*tty sequels, prequels and reboots too and changed their pricing model. I remember an article about the computer game unreal tournament being sold for something like £5-10 on steam (compared to the usual £30) and they sold many more copies that they actually more profit than when the game was originally released and sold for £30.
Hell, I download movies just so I don't have to watch 10 minutes of annoying piracy adverts that can't be skipped and I download computer games so I don't have to f*ck about with their retarded copy protections that actually made games unplayable for people with legitimate copies.