i say this is a load of crap

A few thousand for movies that grossed many millions.
Is it just me or does this sound REALLY petty.
This incident will deter few. If any at all.

I like how they give you the option to settle for 3grand or go to court and fight against them. Makes me think they dont have the right legal pull yet.

While “legal ways” to obtain films exist online, highly sought after Academy Awards nominated films simply do not.

Not true. they seem to be avaiable for download from many net sources and methods other than p2p. the MPAA has never once successfully asserted there is souch a thing as illegal downloads.

much liek teh RIAA they dont get it,do you have any idea what ti takes to find music and vid files? not only do you have to go threw a day or 2 of downlaoding but theres a 50/50 chance that the file you get will be porn of a blank file,and lets not forget the horried qauilty most theatter rips are ><

Besides its gotten sdo bad I have to download a movie frist to see if tis worth goign to the theater for thats abotu how bad thigns have gotten sicne much like games you see it you cant get your money back ><

If you take a look at the MPAA web site, they have a link to legal downloads, from there you can get dvd copy software and any movie you like. Seems to me if they want to prevent downloads then they should start in their own house first.

Unless such downloading is large scale involving one individual mastermind then short of bankrupting people there is little in this threat. Unless professional style piracy is involved i cannot see a Judge jailing anyone so its down to fines and costs.

People who have little or no property have nothing to fear, it would take many tens of thousands of £s or $s in the courts to process each case and even the greedy thickoes in Hollywood know that the bottom line is profit and dont like getting burned. A few big cases would soon not only dent profits directly but also generate enormous amounts of bad PR for them. Remember for example the McLibel Two and their heroic fight against MacDonalds. The Golden Arches were badly screwed, got nothing back and suffered a further decline in sales.

I also have to say that not one of the listed movies is worth the problem of either downloading or paying for so as far as i am concerned, they can keep them. I suspect any decline in sales of either Hollywood movies or Top Ten music contenders is down to increasing amounts of drek and though some consumers are Pavlovian and buy any old crap when the bells rings, the majority are probably not. What we really need to concentrate upon is any of their actions to outlaw peer to peer software and networks illegal. These have far to many totally legal and valuable uses for them to be allowed to be damaged by the cretins who run Hollywood or Tin Pan Alley.

Walk the line? Why haven't I seen this release yet?

The MPA and RIAA are up to their usual BS, trying to scare everybody, I can tell you that with all the heavyduty DRM crap and either HDDVD and especially Blu-ray I'm not buying either format, I'll stick with standard dvds and my upscaling dvd player.

The MPAA and RIAA are up to their usual BS, trying to scare everybody, I can tell you that with all the heavyduty DRM crap and either HDDVD and especially Blu-ray I'm not buying either format, I'll stick with standard dvds and my upscaling dvd player.

Only reason I'd go buy blur ray and HD DVD is the 20+GB a disc storage for my COLOECTION :3

I've been deterred: Only after I got nailed for downloading an academy award movie last year (can't even remember the name). We all get 1 freebie here, if your ISP is nice. After that it's eternal lurking and leeching. Sorry, but a leech is better than none at all.

Sorry but I will download what I want,especially when I paid 50+ a month for the honor of Comcast cable net Heil comcast HEIL!!!!!!!!!!
uhg...gotta stop doign that ><
altho I have moved to a rual aera and tis going to be a long time befor DSL coems this way ><

S2K
thats soemwhat true but they can get aroudn the hackign laws by hireing off contry companies 0-o

"S2K
thats soemwhat true"

No it is completely true. the person is claiming they were "nailed" for downloading a film. there is no such thing. no one has ever been nailed, sued, charged or anything like it for "downloading" a film.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!