How long will the movie industry feel this way?

[goldie]

Right now they say it just isn't worth going after movie dl'ers because not many people take the time and effort to dl such huge files........

Not Just Yet says MPAA

Movie industry launches anti-piracy campaign

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — The movie industry is trying a new approach to stop people from downloading pirated copies of films over the Internet: It's asking them nicely.

Movie studios were launching a campaign Tuesday with television ads and in-theater spots featuring makeup artists, set painters and other crafts people saying that piracy robs them of a living.

The Motion Picture Association of America has also developed a curriculum on copyrights for use in classrooms by Junior Achievement. The "Digital Citizenship" program covers the history of copyright and culminates with a nationwide contest in which students suggest ways to persuade peers that swapping copies of music and movies is not only illegal, but unethical.

"What we are endeavoring to do is both communicate that it's wrong and also communicate that there are human stakes and that those stakes are not just millionaires making less millions," said Peter Chernin, president and chief operating officer of News Corp., whose Twentieth Century Fox studio made the spots.

The film and music industries have recently become more aggressive in enforcing their copyrights in the courts as well as lobbying for tougher laws to punish violators.

While copies of popular blockbusters can be found on the Internet, sometimes days before the movie is released to theaters, computer copies of films are still too large to easily download and are often poor quality copies made using hand-held camcorders.

Music files, by contrast, are smaller and are CD quality, making them easy to share.

Movie studios believe they still have a few years before Internet connections become fast enough to threaten them in the same way. Studios are experimenting with new business models, including making films available legitimately online.

But studios will succeed only if they move quickly to offer legitimate alternatives that consumers want, analysts say.

"It may just be that consumers aren't quite ready yet to turn to the Internet for movies," said Fred von Lohmann, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "But when they are, the answer will be to offer them a compelling legitimate alternative, not telling them to behave themselves."

The industry's 30-second television ad will have its first run Thursday night on all the broadcast networks and most cable channels during their first prime time break, sometime after 8 p.m. The first of several trailers will begin running Friday in most major theater chains nationwide.

The first trailer features David Goldstein, a set painter. Each ad ends with the tag line, "Movies. They're worth it."

The campaign will also include a Web site that outlines the moral implications of illegal downloading as well as the legal and practical consequences.

How much longer do ya think it'll take them?

[napho]

Not much longer. With companies like MediaForce proliferating and lawyers starting to tap a new source of revenue the business of copyright protection will take on a life of it's own.

[TankGirl]

The movie industry is getting increasingly worried. For example, their adult entertainment section has lately learned that Dawn's downloads alone cause them approximately this much losses per month...

[Dawn]

Mwhahaha

[goldie]

HAHAHAHA!!!!

tsk-tsk Dawnie girl

[Malk-a-mite]

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/stor...le&dist=google

"Disney allows movie downloads
Deal with Movielink includes recent releases

Disney and Movielink will make such films as "Monsters Inc.," "Chicago," "Gangs of New York," "The Recruit," "25th Hour" and "The Jungle Book 2" available for download at prices ranging from $2.95 to $4.99."

It's a start.

[goldie]

Know what? I think that's pretty cool then after thinking a bit harder and back to the RIAA........

If one can download an entire freakin 2 hour movie for $3 or 5 bucks, ya gotta be pretty dumb to pay $1.00 (or whatever the going rate is) for a 3 minute .mp3?

Hmmmmmmm.........

[TankGirl]

It is a start but quite restrictive if you are used to p2p distribution. You can keep the downloaded movie for 30 days but when you start watching it, it will remain usable only for the next 24 hours, and then it is gone. So no way to collect a movie library, not to talk about sharing anything.

- tg

[goldie]

Just call me ignorant of the ways of the world outside of p2p

[Mazer]

It's pretty much the same thing as DIVX DVD's, but without the DVD. Eventually they'll start doing video on demand services that act pretty much like pay per view on cable TV. Paranoid as the MPAA may be, they're a little more level headed than the RIAA. A two hour movie that costs half as much as a one hour music album is definitly a better deal.