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01-10-2008, 03:21 AM
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The only companies I hear complaining are the huge companies like Universal or MGM. Sure there are smaller studios too but piracy has been around for years and if they are not certain they can make a decent profit from it they should not attempt to get into the industry in the first place. Piracy is something which will always exist not matter how hard MPAA tries to ban it. So what the movie industry must think about is that if they make a movie their need to be sure it makes money or otherwise not even start. On that note, they could start with lowering the idiotic high salary's of the people starring in those movies. Any movie star asking more then a million to star in a movie should be shot on sight. Sometimes the actors cost more then the freaking sets all together!

Also, there should not exist such a thing as intellectual property, this is one thing I do agree with on that documentary (though I don't exactly agree with the reasoning they put behind it). Movies or music should be handled like anything else. It is made, it is distributed and it is bought. Whatever is done with it from that point on is up to the person who bought it and that should be final.
Surely if I buy a 30 euro movie in the store it is mine? It's MY movie and I can decide what I want to do with it. If I buy it, it's no longer property of the artist, or the distributer, it's mine. Just like when I buy a painting. The moment I pay money for a painting it becomes my painting and is no longer the artists. The moment I pay for a new monitor it isn't property of LG anymore, even though they came up with it and made it.

If I put a DVD on my computer that's my business. If I want to share MY movie with other people then that's my right. Whether you share it or not depends on your own morals of course, but you should be able to do with it what you want. It is after all your legally purchased copy of a movie.
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