Saturday, May 15, 2010

Bullshit Alert!!

http://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-gets-injunction-to-disconnect-the-pirate-bay-100512/

This makes me sick...

Lets ignore the fact that the movie industry still feels it is necessary to pay an actor 20 million dollars for 4 months worth of work on a movie...

Lets ignore the fact that Hollywood spends 300 million dollars on CGI effects and production on movies that have already been made 2-5 times already in the past... Rambo, Robin Hood, Friday 13th, Halloween, Chainsaw Massacre... we could name movies all day right?

Lets ignore the fact that even as torrenting movies increases... so have their profits from box office tickets...

Lets ignore the fact that just MAYBE people torrenting the movies eventually go and buy the Bluray or DVD...

Lets ignore the fact that (as independent record labels are showing) if you put value added information or 'extras' into a Bluray or DVD people will buy them... or the fact the public is fleeced over and over for the same movie (original, directors cut, special edition, special edition directors cut, unrated versions, limited edition, anniversary edition, etc etc) and people STILL buy more than one copy...

Or my personal favorite... that movie studios put DRM on their discs... and then blame the manufacturer of the players for the inability of a disc to play on every player out there... Requiring (as recently reported last week) that people get forced into connecting their dvd or bluray players to the internet to download more and more 'drivers' for more and more DRM crap put onto movies to make sure you never get to make a copy of it - because god forbid they lose a $5 profit off of a sold DVD or Bluray!!

Then they have the gall to put advertisements on their discs about how you as the consumer downloading a movie will cause babies to starve, and people to be put out on the streets to deal drugs and shoot innocent people because the studios will be forced out of business all from a downloaded movie.. OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!

Then, to put the cherry on top... now Blurays and DVD's have COMMERCIALS!! I know anyone who has bought a movie in the past 2 years has noticed commercials for TV shows on them right? Thats right folks.. you are paying the studios for the privilege of watching their commercials for their own movies.. PLUS commercials for TV shows you may or may not even watch or care anything about.

Ahh! got to love American Greed baby!!

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