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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:08 am
by Edgar
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
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:22 pm
by Carberry
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.