Movie Piracy or Invasion of Privacy
By tarsonm
@tarsonm (27)
United States
October 21, 2009 6:20pm CST
Tell me what you think about this. I bought a DVD of a season of a show that I was downloading off of an internet website this past year, because I couldn't find a good quality copy of the 7th,9th & 10th episode. When I opened the packaged DVD, I found a leaflet that said "Piracy Is A Crime" from a campaign that is running wild in Hollywood. This also came with an unsual untrustworthy statistic (90% of all pirated DVDs are illegally filmed from the back of a cinema with a camcorder) provided by their friends, The Federation Against Copyright Theft. They also included a grainy picture of the pirated movie to show in comparison.
I was just thinking "way to go guys" the people who have just bought your over-priced product are just the right people who need (misleading)warnings about the dangers of pirated pre-released DVDs, especially when your example is a pirated DVD of the film that the warning comes in.
What do you think about pirated movies or music? Is it wrong? Is it okay as long as nobody finds out?
3 responses
@Xygatrix (103)
• United States
21 Oct 09
The way I see it, piracy is only theft of intellectual rights, and not physical material such as the case, disc, etc... so it's not a huge deal. Normally, I try to make sure that I only download abandonware (things that have had their copyrights expired or abandoned by the producer), so it's impossible to sue (no infringement, no theft of material). I try to avoid traditional piracy, but I think the collective world computer security agencies should be worrying about bigger things than piracy. I mean, you don't call the FBI when someone robs a convenience store (not that piracy is as bad as robbery, just trying to find a decent metaphor)...
@dekada80 (388)
• Philippines
22 Oct 09
Ideally, pirated movies or music are ilegal and definitely is wrong, people behind the production of this film or music invested so much money and effort to produce it and some people will just sneak in and copy and worst redistribute it, now that's theft. Here in our country, 12-15 years ago, there are new local movies shown almost every week, but after the boom of piracy for the last 10 years, new local movies are now coming out once in 2-3 months because most of the producers already stopped doing movies, they are just losing a lot money investing on films and then only a few will watch it in the theaters because you some people had already copy the movie, redistribute it on dvd's or upload it in the internet, so why bother spend on something where you can have it watch for free?
@clorissa123 (4926)
• United States
22 Oct 09
It definitely is wrong to do so. The filming industry struggle to make quality and good movies to gain profit by showing their intelligent, their talents on the big screen. All of the sudden, with pirated movies free to download and share, they couldn't make any profit anymore. So, respect them, and their intelligence.
