The media likes to boast on the successes of hollywood and now it seems that finding nemo has broken the animated picture BO records, in a climate where we see record breaking bO takings how can the movie houses say they are loosing money its like the biggest contradiction in terms ever. X men Finding Nimo matrix all being BO hits i'm sure the hulk will be a strong contender along with a few others due out this year.

Now what i dont get is why in the hell our governments wanna spend tax payers $$ fighting piracy when the only clr winners are the studio companys billions made in revenue and millions wasted in enforcing the copyright laws. You have places in england where its full of heroin users due to the colapse of industry where in the industrial towns of the north jobs are scarce but rather than invest tax money they squander it on protecting an industry that says its in peril from piracy. Never in all my yrs have i heard such a load of bullshit. And the music industry need to just fuck off and die pop idol american idol it just goes to show how amazingly well rounded and smart our society is its like we beg to be exploited.

Anyways thats my rant for today its been a long one.

How do you think your tax $$ is better spent??

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I think spending more money on public education is only slightly more wasteful than on combating movie piracy. I can use posts from this forum to prove both.

Does anyone really take the MPAA seriously anymore? All they do is randomly pop up on some bad tv news magazine, bitch about Kazaa for awhile and then make more money that god. Surely they're losing credibility by now.

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sure, and when is the last time torrent worked correctly? I don't want to hear that the MPAA didn't have anything to do with that...

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The reason they give for losing money is yes they make a lot of money off the big movies but off the littler things like new cd's by unknown bands and things like that they are not making as much money as they have before. Thus their losing profits off of hundreds of movies and music which only the few record breakers arn't making up for it. That is my theory whats yours?

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thats very true but the problem is that alot of people being the consumer feel they have been exploited. The digital revolution is kind of a stepping stone the way i see it, a backlash it happened in the 70's with punk the market was flooded with pop back then and a punk backlash left the record companies with their dicks pissing in the wind because they became too self assured. This is kinda whats happeneing now its a sign that the industry needs to change..what goes around comes around.

But my biggest thing is the way these days marketing is used to exploit children, its abuse in a certain kind of way, and the need for a child to conform to the norms in society presents a heavy burden to a child growing up these companys add to this by telling a kid if you have this you're cool etc if you look like this you'r cool. But here's the thing they can ban smoking in public places to protect a child but they are reluctant to stop multi billion dollar compainies exploiting them. The goverments need to shape up and look at what really matters we elect these people to make chices in our best intrests i think ppl forgot that along the way

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My big thing is the record companies complain about losing money over this but look at what is going on with the economy in general especially in the US with the war overseas the economy as a whole as suffered and with it not only the record and movie industry but all industries i mean look at how the airlines have suffered since 9/11 they dont tell you that. Bottom line is all they care about is money but instead of looking at other factors that could be affecting it they go straight to the piraters, granted its not legal but i mean really, do they thing that illegal downloads are the sole means of them losing money, well i think if they do then they deserve to lose money maybe it will help them come back to reality

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I am one to differ though I believe piracy has killed the sales of movie tickets and cd's but I feel that this is not a bad thing since now consumers have a different option of testing before buying and also getting music and movies. Not to sound mr. american here but example of this going on is when iraq was free everyone looted because they were free so they had no laws to confront thus they can do whatever they want. When of course the big bad police man comes and try's to maintain the order and try to make everything more civilized the free people are angered with such action. Same is going on with us just i believe that the record and movie company should start policing the net a little bit more in order for their to stop the chaos of kazaa and such. Also what the movie theaters and record companys can do is stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars on movies and actually take into account how much actors should really get paid and how much they should really pay for sets. They are loosing money because of many factors not just one their is never just one quick answer. Piracy is not the only problem they should look at themselfs also. Kazaa though and other enviroments of distributing should be policed to where people have to pay for movies and music.

The true only way to do that though is to offer them more then what they will get by downloading the free version. Offer them extra deleted scenes offer them half price tickets to see the movie in theater do something just don't blame and go back to doing the same thing over again.

Last, movie companys are scared right now. All these years they have been able to controll a mass amount of people. Their was only one option buy the movie buy the ticket buy the cd. Now that there is compition or another choice they are scared of whats to come. They are losing their controll of people so they always throw big "projected" numbers to scare you into buying the stuff because you feel sorry for "whoever" (of course not the person who is feeling sorry is the person who does it) did these horrific things. Everyone is guilty of a crime one way or another just i think the judgement of the seriousness of piracy is way more then what the media and the riaa mpaa and other groups make it out to be.

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lol...BO record

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How should they spend MY tax money? Fuck em, I want it back. I'm sick of paying each year an amount that could buy me either a nice boat, a decent used car, or pay for additional things for my business. The government spends, and spends, and asks for more. I'm sick of this shit. As for schools, personally, if a school spends 6-9 thousand dollars a year per student, and still can't give them a decent education, then close all public schools and go to private, where competition is the norm, and schools compete to survive, with the students being the winners.

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