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The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular websites for illegal downloading of movies, has doubled its number of visitors after Swedish police shut down the site for three days, according to an Internet monitoring site, Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter said on Sunday.
Police raid doubles Pirate Bay's popularity
Seeded on Mon Jun 12, 2006 12:28 AM EDT
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I think many of us saw this coming. The biggest problem I've got is trying to make my mind up what to think about the whole thing at the end of the day. In one aspect, I think they are pretty cool for being such a tremendous pain in the *curse* on the MPAA, Swedish government and various other organisations and institutions. On the other, I can see the problem that the very same are going through trying to have the site shut down. One has to admit though, that it is pretty hilarious that they were up and running again in less than a week. And the circumstances under which the police shut The Pirate Bay down are really questionable. I am really excited to see what comes out of this mess, especially with regards to Thomas Bodström, lead politician behind the raid.
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#2 - Mon Jun 12, 2006 2:18 AM EDTThe biggest problem I've got is trying to make my mind up what to think about the whole thing at the end of the day. In one aspect, I think they are pretty cool for being such a tremendous pain in the *curse* on the MPAA, Swedish government and various other organisations and institutions.
I am totally against pirating, but I do agree that MPAA should be slap around because its so blind of the real reasons movie sales are going down.
1. More entertainment available to use.
2. Bad movies.
3. Crap load of Sequels and remakes.
If anything MPAA should try to find a way to take advantage of pirating. Like spreading 10 minute trailers of recent movies, selling movies online, make movies take the advantage of move theatre equipment.
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I forgot a couple.
1. More entertainment available to use.
2. Bad movies.
3. Crap load of Sequels and remakes.
4. Better home theatre equipment. I.E. HD TV, surround sound, etc.
5. Prices
6. People wanting to stay at home.
7. the list goes on.
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They might have something if they'd let you mint your own take-home DVD of the film right there at the theater.
They should also have movie merchandise and soundtracks and the games for sale right there at the popcorn stand, and all of it should be priced at Walmart prices. Even the food.
It will never happen of course.
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I agree with your point Levi completely. And I believe that the points you are addressing doesn't apply exclusively to the MPAA (of which I know very little not being from the US by the way). I recon the record labels and all the rest of the companies that loose valuable earnings because of piracy should seriously reconsider their channels of distribution and strategies of their products, hence your comments above. It has been said (I cant confirm this, just to be clear) that Sony for example has so much money invested in CD-technology that they don't want to change their ways of distribution because of that. Do you know anything on this aspect (or anyone else)?
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#3 - Mon Jun 12, 2006 3:32 AM EDTI don't really know anything about it but Sony is so retarded. They never listen to their customers. They were trying to make UMD into the new standard but that just crashed and burn horribly.
Now they are forcing the PS3 owners to pay up to 600 dollars because they want everybody to be blue ray users and try to win the format wars.
On top of that Customers and the video game media has been complaining about the price and they respond by saying "PS3 is too cheap". They are turning into a bratty 2 year old that always get their way.
Yea, I really don't like Sony.
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Now it is all coming back to me reading your post Levi. Isn't it Sony that has all the proprietary memory stick formats as well now that I think of it? Mandatory for their own line of cameras (other manufacturers to maybe?) I believe.
And I do remember that there was a lot of fuss about their DRM stuff here in Sweden/Scandinavia as well, albeit it was some time ago.
Makes you wonder whether they are set on nothing short of world domination though, doesn't it?
And one other aspect is, that even though you really make up your mind to try and deliberately ban their (as in Sony's) products from your own life, it is near enough impossible. Simply because they have their fingers in nearly everything that has to do with media.
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Its really scary the level of DRM they are planning for HD content distribution. Where do they get off treating all of their customers like criminals? I buy my DVDs at the moment, but in the future I wouldn't have any qualms about people downloading the content illegally. These dinosaurs are going to crash and burn (along with the RIAA).
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#4 - Mon Jun 12, 2006 4:45 AM EDTMost things are moving towards home entertainment like Levi said. Why would I want to go out to see a movie and spend $8-$12 on a ticket, plus a drink, and gas to get there when I can sit at home and do the same for less. Not only this, but I don't have to worry about annoying people in the theater and I can pause, rewind and watch as many times as I would like on my home theater. Sure it's nice to go out every so often, but there aren't too many movies that I would go through that much effort to see in a theater nowadays or even buy for that matter.
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