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Anyone downloaded the Hurt Locker Illegally?
- Thread starter dk
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Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
Yep, I heard about this on the radio this afternoon. Probably nothing will come of it, though in a way, I wish it would...
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Instead of asking them to pay $1500 why not just ask them to pay what it would of cost on a DVD? Dickheads
because that wouldn't act as a deterrent would it.
if you knew that if you were caught you would only get a £20 fine I think people would be even more inclined to pirate.
Fiat Panda 100hp
iTunes does play movies.
Indeed it does for the princely sum of £9.99. For that you get a copy of the movie that you get to play on only a couple of worth while devices and is full to it's eye balls with DRM.
So £9.99 which is about the same as a DVD now. A DVD you can take round to my parents, my brothers, my friends to watch. I can lend it out to friends who want to watch it and I can also sell it once I'm done with it. You can't do this with DRM video files so why the f**k do they charge the same price?
I would happily pay 3 or 4 quid for a movie file that has DRM over it but f**k paying a tenner for what you get. The movie companies will learn soon enough just like all the music companies learned that they can still make money when selling MP3's for 99p.
Instead of extorting file sharers, which is basically what is happening, give them a decent, open and more cost effective way of downloading movies legally.
ITB BG 182
I didnt think the film was all it was made out to be.
DRM videos are full of cack, an i am not paying £18 or £19 for a disc.
One of my neighbours is on the download 24/7 with some thing dodgy, oh he also has an open wireless connection and last time i spoke to the boy he downloaded near enough to 100gig in a week full of films and tv series, yet he has had no kind of notice in the 5 years hes been downloading.
DRM videos are full of cack, an i am not paying £18 or £19 for a disc.
One of my neighbours is on the download 24/7 with some thing dodgy, oh he also has an open wireless connection and last time i spoke to the boy he downloaded near enough to 100gig in a week full of films and tv series, yet he has had no kind of notice in the 5 years hes been downloading.
ITB BG 182
I think its mainly people on bit torrent download files under the full and proper name for what ever film and its downloaded in one section or one single file.
Other download programs come by multi section zip files and are uploaded to a forum host by request making it much harder to trace as the files come from multiple hosts rather than multiple users.
I think this is how it works but im sure DMS will be along to correct me soon enough.
Other download programs come by multi section zip files and are uploaded to a forum host by request making it much harder to trace as the files come from multiple hosts rather than multiple users.
I think this is how it works but im sure DMS will be along to correct me soon enough.
Clio 182ff
Who the f**k will want to watch a low res copy first time. Not me thanks. 720p thanks.
/HD Ready pauper.
And i remember reading somewhere about the amount of legal music purchases made by people who also download music being > than people who don't download illegaly. Proportionally obviously as everyone and their grandma steals from the www.
/HD Ready pauper.
And i remember reading somewhere about the amount of legal music purchases made by people who also download music being > than people who don't download illegaly. Proportionally obviously as everyone and their grandma steals from the www.
Bus w**ker
In my eyes they aren't. No matter which way people may use to download illegal material there always has to be a link to their own IP. If the double As or BPA etc really wanted to find you they would...well at least legally if they could get the backing behind them.
There are numerous ways to make it harder to be traced, such as IP blocklists or tunnelling to name couple. Most people get caught because they jump on a new film/album/whatever on a public tracker and it turns out to be monitored by one of the pro-copyright organisations or worse a honeypot.
Torrents only get a bad press because it's freely available, easy to use and the way the protocol delivers and receives data.
LOL millions of people worldwide, mostly those that understand the irony of paying to download illegal material.
RS/newsgroups are no quicker for me than the vast majority of totally legal torrents.
Remember kids, home taping is killing the music industry...
Moi.
Torrents usually download two, maybe three times quicker than RS files do for me.
OEM Battery Nonce
ClioSport Club Member
This to be honest, how can they fine someone £1000 for downloading 1 film, when if you went into the local Tesco and stole 20 you'd get about £50 fine and £100 costs if rumbled
give graboid a go... streams films perfectly and in HD too like a good quality version of youtube. I pay a couple of quid a month for it but am sure its not legal even though im paying... its very convenient and easy especially with my pc set up to output the film to my tellie
Spot on.
If iTunes did an unlimited streaming thing for £30 a month or whatever then I'd never pirate anything.
The gap between what's legal and illegal is too big. For 99p would I download a perfect copy of something that's going to sit on my HD. Of course. Would I pay £9.99 for that? Not a chance.
A red missile
I don't think i've ever downloaded a film illegally, someone at work does it and shoves it in his drop box
I have to agree with what some people are saying though, someone at work got hold of a copy of invaders must die by the Prodigy, I took a copy, had a listen then went straight out and bought it, even though I probably have broken the law I think morally i'm in the clear.
It's true also to say that no matter how cheap something is to acquire there's always some cheapskate that will try and get it for free.
I have to agree with what some people are saying though, someone at work got hold of a copy of invaders must die by the Prodigy, I took a copy, had a listen then went straight out and bought it, even though I probably have broken the law I think morally i'm in the clear.
It's true also to say that no matter how cheap something is to acquire there's always some cheapskate that will try and get it for free.
Mondeo STTDCI
I'm pretty sure though, that techinically, within the letter of the law, that once such a DVD is purchased you shouldnt be lending it out and what not.
Just playing devil's advocate.