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Studios aim to shut down piracy from award show DVD screeners
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article published on 28 January, 2011
Every year, starting usually in November and lasting into February, DVDs of movies that are up for award considerations are sent out to Academy, Golden Globe, SAG and other awards voters.
Without fail, a number of these discs are duplicated and find their way to warez and torrent sites, which label them as DVD Screeners.
It appears the studios are finally trying to take a big stand ... [ read the full article ]
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Zoo_Look
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3. February 2011 @ 19:42 |
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One day it will be a non-isseue anyway. When the population of the world is such that all our entertainment outlets and studio production areas are demolished to make room for 100 story apartment blocks... no one will have a place to go to film it let alone distribute the stuff!
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NeoandGeo
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4. February 2011 @ 14:59 |
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And yet you still make a profit, even after all those losses. Make your money, and stop wasting it on people that will never purchase your product for any reason.
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4. February 2011 @ 17:28 |
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Originally posted by elitepunk:
remember guys downloading hasnt been around forever and will not be around forever...i downloaded my first movie in 2002 so yeah..some of you speak as if downloading has been around since the beginning of time, it aint true. its probably here to stay for awhile but one day it wont be available to us all anymore i bet..lets not take downloading for granted.
Your dead wrong there! it has been around for a very long time since the 70's downloading from black sites was a viable alternative to sneaker net explicitly to those who where rich enough to own a modem rack.
in the 80's it was learned any one can access these sites one just needs to know where to look It, slowly but surely word of mouth spread quickly these sites then became targets to the government (as they did alot more than just host A server many black servers where run by mobs or drug cartels) to combat this and draw the masses away from there black sites, they started the first P2P servers (hence why the MPAA/RIAA still hold to the belief that Drug rings and Software Pirate's are still operating these Sites)
Downloading movies and music was never considered mainstream until the 90's with the invent of the 56k modem. one could download a vhs movie in about 4 hours uninterrupted and Record or CD in about 1hr-2hr uninterrupted.
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voyager
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4. February 2011 @ 23:06 |
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What about the 80's? buy a TDK blank cassette and record from cassete to cassete using Hi speed dubbing.is that piracy?
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Zoo_Look
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5. February 2011 @ 05:04 |
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Yes... having said that... does anywhere still sell cassettes (blank OR pre=recorded). I haven't seen them for years!
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NeoandGeo
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5. February 2011 @ 07:39 |
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Less piracy, more helping the movie studios by introducing more people to more movies.
For instance in high school a friend copied his Matrix VHS cassette for the entire class to watch on a free day near the end of the year. I ended up buying the original DVD, watching the last two movies in theaters, and now own the BluRay of the original Matrix.
All this stemmed from someone doing something "illegal"
Do whatever you want, and support what you feel like supporting. In the end they will still be multi-billion companies crying about losing fake money.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 5. February 2011 @ 07:43
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voyager
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5. February 2011 @ 08:05 |
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Originally posted by Zoo_Look:
Yes... having said that... does anywhere still sell cassettes (blank OR pre=recorded). I haven't seen them for years!
I have a lot of cassettes original and recorded using the technics of wait for the music in the radio to be play(just push recplay buttons and pause at the same time) or recorded from cassette to cassette.
sorry not for sale;Iron Maiden collection, and a lot of Thrash music of 80's and 90's
My car is a Subaru Impreza 2002 and comes with 6cds changer and cassette player.
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5. February 2011 @ 08:44 |
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Originally posted by Zoo_Look:
Yes... having said that... does anywhere still sell cassettes (blank OR pre=recorded). I haven't seen them for years!
think i got a couple of old cassettes laying around blank and in original packaging.
custom built gaming pc from early 2010,ps2 with 15 games all original,ps3 500gbs with 5 games all original,yamaha amp and 5.1channel surround sound speakers,46inch sony lcd smart tv.
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Zoo_Look
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5. February 2011 @ 14:06 |
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I wonder if in a few years time whether they may be worth something... like vinyl is now!
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NeoandGeo
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5. February 2011 @ 14:12 |
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Don't think so, since Vinyl is better than any format we have now. VHS is terrible quality.
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Zoo_Look
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5. February 2011 @ 14:25 |
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Originally posted by NeoandGeo:
Less piracy, more helping the movie studios by introducing more people to more movies.
For instance in high school a friend copied his Matrix VHS cassette for the entire class to watch on a free day near the end of the year. I ended up buying the original DVD, watching the last two movies in theaters, and now own the BluRay of the original Matrix.
All this stemmed from someone doing something "illegal"
Exactly what I do with music, listen first (even it it means piracy) and buy later.
I bought some 13 Jarre studio albums (some twice as I let someone borrow them about 2 weeks before they left the company we were with... never saw them or him again) on the back of a pirated version of Oxygene... oddly enough, the album was released the same year I was born.
Point is, at least if you buy the originals at a later date, you still contribute to the production of quality material later. This is (I think) a fairer compromise then just obtaining pirate versions and NOT paying ever again. I am sure the studios would rather that it didn't happen, but again, until they offer refunding on over-hyped and downright misleading advertising which ignores our rights as consumers, I see no reason to alter my habits.
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8. February 2011 @ 05:49 |
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I know, that it's unpleasant, when somebody steals your money, like piracy does, but I think this process can't be stopped at all. I'm sure torrent sites will exist forever! And what your favourite site with movies??? I like the most http://www.torrentoff.com
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