Isn't it time they sued Google, Yahoo, and every other search engine on the net, then?
Looks like the greedy bastards at MPAA got some work cut out for them.
Hey - did the thought of raising standard and quality and lowering prices on product ever strike "the industry"?
Who wants to pay full price for some bullshit CD with fillertracks or go see an american movie at some multiplex, let alone own it on DVD these days?

Did Al Gore invent the Internet!

No the Pentagon did as a research project back in the 70's.

Actually Google gets sued quite a bit. I think an adult site is suing for displaying thumbnails of their copyrighted pictures. In any case, we really need updated laws.

What doesn't make sense to me, is how anyone could possibly be mad when google, or any other search engine for that matter, shows people a thumbnail of copyrighted pictures. It only gives that particular site more advertising. If it was removed all together, how would anyone even know about it?

Do a web search instead of images?
Well thats not a reasonable answer, because these people will be searching images with or without that site being shown. Wouldn't it be more beneficial for those sites to at least get some adversing rather than none?

I just can't understand some people, how they can just go off sueing everyone when things dont go as they'd like them to. It is just rediculous, pure and simple.

MAN Not Isohunt!
I love that site. Shitty.

Well folks no matter what the MPPA does theres always
some fella out there that can bypass any codes or tricks they come up with.They can sue to their hearts content but they can't stop us from copying music or movies.

Think +ve , collect enough money to hire some crap eating lawyers then sue whoever formed the MPAA, RIAA for being assholes and being vexatious litigants. Notice though how the members of RIAA & MPAA have the buffer between them and their own arses on the line.

What are the odds something will come of this?
Or is this just another fruitless attempt at bringing down these sites. Is it even worth it it for these companies to spend the money, when even if they win and these sites get terminated another site will come up out of the ground tomorrow. And then the next day and so on and so on.

I can't believe the greed of these jerkoffs. A new DVD or CD costs these companies about 78 cents apiece to produce, yet they charge the consumers $20. or more. You'd think it would click in their heads that if maybe they sold their products for realistic prices, say maybe $4.00, that people would buy rather than take the time to copy anything. As it is now, you could make a dozen copies and give them away, and they would still make money on the original. Instead, they'd rather spend more on lawyers to fight a battle they're never going to win. It's pathetic!

Well said, its a losing battle because someone somewhere will always find a way to beat the system.
The sooner they realize that the better off they'll be.

The fact is... in my eyes, if they wanted to stop at least camera pirating of films in theatres, they could come up with a screen that does'nt film... I mean they have that spray you can put on your license plate to avert pictures to be taken, why not a coating that stops video pirating. They know they could do it, but instead of acctually trying to stop whats being done, they want to use communist scare tactics on the individule.

I would like to reply to Tokijin about the white guys. I think he is introducing predjustice into this discussion. My brother if you check the brothers very seldom purchase anything. They expect to get it for free that is why all their movies are three times have more protection than the regular white guys. And I also agee with ritam that all the people that create movies were not so greedy and make the price of the DVD'S at $5.00 it would not be worth the time or trouble to copy and they would still make a large profit on thier product.......

I would agree with everything stated about the DVD's being competetively priced. It's funny how this kind of thing happens. The laws of supply and demand were stretched only so far. Supply was obviously not a factor, dvd companies have gagillions of resources. But they price the hell ouf of the product. Demand is a factor and these companies think that we'll pay an arm and a leg for anything... forget it.

Shutting down, and attacking these sites through forceful tactics like lawsuits is ridiculous. This idea is almost as bad as Microsoft's new Vista data rights protection crap.
http://news.com.com/Hollywood,%20Microsoft%20align%20on%20new%20Windows/2100-1025_3-5844393.html?part=rss&tag=5844393&subj=news

afterdawn better be careful you'll be getting sued for all these anarchistic messages lol. but seriously its getting rediculous i have 2 kids and if we go to cinema it costs me at least £20(uk money) which is about $40 (us money)just to see 1 movie i cant even take in my own drinks or sweets i have to buy the cinema stuff ok i do sneak stuff in but thats besides the point. for that money i could buy 4 pirated dvd's and watch them at my leisure.by the way i use edk a lot.

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Shutting down, and attacking these sites through forceful tactics like lawsuits is ridiculous. This idea is almost as bad as Microsoft's new Vista data rights protection crap.
http://news.com.com/Hollywood,%20Microsoft%20align%20on%20new%20Windows/2100-1025_3-5844393.html?part=rss&tag=5844393&subj=news by gorpin03
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i agree, things would just be easyer if things where cheaper and that new microsoft version isnt going to be vary populer, no one is going to want to buy it. almost everyone i know has done some kind of pirating and even doing that i think u can by pass that version just by reformating your computer with an older version atleast i think u would be able to

It's Always about the MONEY!!!!!!Nothing else matters to the cocaine sniffing fat cats.

Wow, I just read the news bit (thanks gorpin) about Microsoft's Vista OS. It's sad that Microsoft is selling out just too appease Hollywood. I wonder how well this will go over if Dell and HP sales start to fall through the floor because consumers don't want to buy new computers with such restrictions built into the operation systems. What I really can't understand is why Hollywood and major electronics companies keep trying to screw the very consumers that support them. It's like that whole DivX thing initiated by Circut City's CEO about ten years ago.

njoldman (Newbie) 11 March 2006 11:33 _
It's Always about the MONEY!!!!!!Nothing else matters to the cocaine sniffing fat cats.

Yeah, no doubt, it's sick. I read somewhere recently that there was a world record for billionaires this year. Some astronomical figure... I think it was 793. People don't see that money isn't everything. Nevermind that though, I don't want to get away from the subject.

Has any singular person ever been sued by the MPAA for simply downloading files through BitTorrent?

No gleeok nobody has ever been sued for downloading a movie or music, they have been sued for uploading the content for others to download. the RIAA and MPAA at least got that part right to get the suplyer even if they did get everything else wrong.

dnic (Newbie) 9 March 2006 17:09 _
Did Al Gore invent the Internet!
Tokijin (AfterDawn Addict) 9 March 2006 17:31 _
No the Pentagon did as a research project back in the 70's.

NOOOO Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee (UK) Invented the Internet in 1980 at CERN which later connected with MIT. Networks have been around awhile longer (Non-HTTP) which is what the Pentagon were running in the 70's.

A lot of people are saying we need legislation to update the laws; I portend exactly the opposite.
The internet has always been a free exchange vehicle. It should be beyond any government's ability to regulate in any way shape or form. There are many laws on the books to regulate the individuals' use of the Internet. Laws governing pedophiles and file sharing [under theft statutes]- but if these laws were to be enforced AS WRITTEN, the MPAA and all the other mega-interests would be up s*** creek without a paddle.
When a law is universally ignored, a government will not build more prisons to accomodate the lawbreakers; they change the law.
Imagine the MPAA being forced to prosecute every single case of alleged copyright infringement without their current scattershot approach of going after the servers and facilitators?
They'd quickly seek some sort of compromise solution just as they did when CDs and VHS came to the fore. There was no intermediary available for legal action except the manufacturers of the copying media.
If some brave court took the argument of some sharp attorney that the Internet is a worldwide commodity, owned by no one and no government and thus non-regulatable on any level, the MPAA and the other leeches would be forced to seek a compromise.
We need fewer laws, we need more laws declared unconstitutional; but as long as our current form of government, Republicans in particular [but politicians in general] derive their power from the leech corporations there will be no law written to benefit the common good.
And we just keep voting them back into office.

See any solution there?

The way Bill Gates and the Gang are going, they are just BENDING OVER for the open source crowd....

Despite the fact that binnews doesn't store any files on their site, or that there currently exist numerous websites offering basically the same service, as of this week - all video (movie and tv) categories have been removed from binnews per the agreement/settlement they reached in court.

Categories for everything else are still there.

Now you can be penalized for having a search site unless you have deep enough pockets to battle the *real* pirates .. the MPAA

It botheres me when I see alot of people blaming republicans and some democrates about laws. It is true that alot of our congressman never even finished hight school and alot of them are in office because of popularlity instead of what they know. Remember the voting in high school for the prom queen and king? Even alot of these people approx 123 have crimnal records in fact one man there to day in office took a bribe of 100,000 and got caught but reelected and now is in charge of government finances, great huh! So why don't we all stick to the facts that if black or white business that are gready would wake up and make a reasonable profit people would not steal their products because it would not be worth it.