Creative America Launches Campaign To Support Anti-Piracy Legislation

COMMENTS (15)

• WORST IDEA EVER! if this bill passes legislation, the internet is fucked forever in more ways than just movie and music piracy.

  Comment by rational human — Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 8:49am PST  Reply to this post

  • more freedom taken by the few.

    Comment by lad — Friday December 9, 2011 @ 7:49am PST  Reply to this post

  • molotovs ready gentlemen

    Comment by Anonymous — Sunday January 22, 2012 @ 7:17am PST  Reply to this post

• This ad tells me there is a scary problem.

  The problem is a real problem.

  The solution being proposed is a crap solution.

  Just because there’s a problem it doesn’t mean any crappy solution is a good idea.

  Comment by ChristopherMaker — Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 9:05am PST  Reply to this post

• The ad wasn’t clear. What kind of jobs are at risk? Was it American? I wasn’t sure if it was repeated enough. I felt like the camera was going to zoom out and you’d see a politician at the computer.

  Comment by Heckler — Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 9:11am PST  Reply to this post

• I wonder how they feel about this study:

  http://boingboing.net/2011/12/03/swiss-govt-study-downloadin.html

  “The report states that around a third of Swiss citizens over 15 years old download pirated music, movies and games from the Internet. However, these people don’t spend less money as a result because the budgets they reserve for entertainment are fairly constant. This means that downloading is mostly complementary.

  The other side of piracy, based on the Dutch study, is that downloaders are reported to be more frequent visitors to concerts, and game downloaders actually bought more games than those who didn’t. And in the music industry, lesser-know bands profit most from the sampling effect of file-sharing.”

  So which is it? Is downloading harmful or complementary? There has to be some sort of quantifiable data to mine and send to a third party to determine the truth – no matter how hard it may be for some to swallow.

  Comment by Bill Cunningham — Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 9:11am PST  Reply to this post

• Once again, copyright infringement is not theft. Calling it theft is inaccurate and deflates the perceived authority of those who would curtail it.

  Comment by Flim Flam — Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 9:19am PST  Reply to this post

• Under SOPA if you were to upload a Michael Jackson song you could conceivably receive 5 years in prison. That’s one more year than the doctor that killed him.

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 9:39am PST  Reply to this post

• Pfft… Compromise our core freedoms and due process to protect ip. Such a nobel cause.

  Comment by Aeiouy — Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 10:11am PST  Reply to this post

• Put your future customers in Jail.
  It’s the new mantra from Hollywood and Vine.

  Comment by Lumiere — Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 3:07pm PST  Reply to this post

• Typical Hollywood money-grubbing hypocrites, how about making movies/TV shows etc. that people will pay to see? That would take talent, something that is clearly in very short supply in the entertainment industry!

  Comment by Bill H — Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 3:21pm PST  Reply to this post

• and yes there will be some that will get away with it here and there but we are talking about 50,000 or so max, and we can make it a crime with prison time for those that are in contact with them,

  btw I hear that ad revenue on the internet is about to drop by 70%, the advertisers are finding out that tv ads are the only way to go, ad sense and other ad schemes are an illusion developed and inflated by google, yahoo, facebook,

  just look at myspace, once valued at 500 billion and now worth 3MM,

  with internet ads you only get 1-3% in sales tops,

  anyone know about that ?

  Comment by Sam — Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 7:57pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Sam,

    What do YOU know about a 70% in online advertising. You’re the one who brought it up. Can you point to any sources? I follow this stuff. I haven’t heard anything about this.

    Comment by ChristopherMaker — Thursday December 8, 2011 @ 9:38am PST  Reply to this post

    • no direct sources, just a lot of talk among friends,

      Comment by Sam — Friday December 9, 2011 @ 11:18am PST  Reply to this post

• shut down the internet, except for email,

  one of my friends is tellilng me that the tv movie biz is going to shut down for good in 3-5 years time if the hemorrhaging cannot stop,

  anyone know about that ?

  Comment by Sam — Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 8:41pm PST  Reply to this post