Comments on: Interesting Piracy Facts

By: John

John — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:33:13 +0000

I’m living in Eastern Europe at the moment, and piracy is rife…. I mean – Casino Royale was in the DVD rental shop here 2 days after its release in the UK…. CRAZY!!! They also don’t have original games – they sell the games with the cracks on them!!!

By: Masta' B

Masta' B — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:11:30 +0000

I’ve never rented a movie in my life. If I really want to preview something I can’t find online/at the cinema I’ll get it through an inter-library loan (free, they have most criterion releases, and you can keep it for much longer…) I go to a movie a week generally now that I’m living in the city, but – being a filmmaker – I can’t help feeling the need to have the movies I love in my collection. I guess the issue for me is that I’m impatient, if I get good buzz on a film I’m usually on my way out the door to see it, if I can’t I’m logging on to torrentspy…once it’s on DVD I can’t resist from adding it to my collection…

By: Alex B

Alex B — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:38:04 +0000

Why do you people talk about shelling out 20+ dollars on a DVD of a movie you haven’t seen… don’t anyone rent movies at Blockbuster any more???

I personally never brought a DVD of a movie I haven’t seen, I just either see it in the theater or rent it, then if I really like it I buy the DVD so I can watch it any other time :-)

By: Alex B

Alex B — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:34:03 +0000

Blah, Sony Pictures, not Warner Bros! my bad!

By: Alex B

Alex B — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:33:30 +0000

Warner Bros. sent be the screener for Monster House… I guess I’m more special then the Academy members. Blah but I only get feature animation screeners because i belong to the International Animated Film Association. I do wish I got all the screeners Academy members get, lol.

By: Masta' B

Masta' B — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:23:27 +0000

I don’t agree with the numbers either…I believe piracy has been a major factor of spreading positive word-of-mouth for lower-release movies and increased both box office & dvd sales for such films. Personally I would very rarely shell out $20+ on a DVD of a film I hadn’t yet seen…being able to download a rip lets me filter out the crap, and direct my $$ toward movies that are actually worth buying…

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:57:07 +0000

I think you need to give pirates a little more respect. You can download a Friday release of a movie by Sunday. I find these numbers to be wrong. I don’t see the movie industry loosing money from the theater because I think people go the same amount as they did 10 years ago…if not more the Digital Projection move theaters out now. As for DVD sales, you are not going to stop copying, and I don’t think downloading a copy from BitTorrent is going to stop either. The best thing to do is make it easy to buy, download and burn a dvd. That is there best hope.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:42:30 +0000

I have a DVD burner, and a Netflix account. Yet I have no desire to pirate movies. They’re generally crap anyway, remakes TV shows or comic books.

I’m content to rent, and I rarely spend the $10 at theaters either.

By: Masta' B

Masta' B — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:32:43 +0000

All I can say about that list is that it’s very frustrating that the 3 Oscar contenders that haven’t been uploaded yet are the only major nominees I have yet to see.

By: websnap

websnap — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:52:59 +0000

I know piracy would decrease, but it’s silly to think it would go away entirely. There are a lot of really BAD movies out there that sometimes extra features added to the disk just doesn’t compensate for the $30 price tag (or the thirty dollar total theatre cost, for that matter). I can honestly say that my collection would double if the cost was more reasonable.