Movie Piracy Debate

This is a section I 'filmed' of the BBC News technology program "Click", please visit their website- http://www.bbc.co.uk/click. (I have nothing to do with the contents of this video, all credit goes to the Click team).

It is a short debate between Dan Glickman of the Motion Picture Association and John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Very illuminating. A longer version of the debate is available from the Click website (probably only for the rest this week).

I filmed the clip on my digital camera, for two reasons. 1) It's all I had to hand to get video from my TV to my laptop. 2) More importantly, I wanted to illustrate that whatever DRM and copy protecton techniques are used in the future, that at some point the audio and video has to become analogue for human input. So like John Perry Barlow said, stop trying to get in the way of progress and instead put your resources into learning about the situation in which you find yourself.

Movies, music and software are all part of something that are completely different to any other sort of tradable goods, they are all information. Information is the only self-replicating resource we have. Normal rules don't apply.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Movie
• Piracy
• FileSharing
• moving
• picture
• association
• electronic
• frontiers
• foundation
• John
• Perry
• Barlow
• Dan
• Glickman

[MissLadyL09]

Yeah I would pay an annual fee to watch new release movies legally online if it were possible. The internet has made it much easier and faster to view such goods which is making rental stores obsolete. Several rental stores around my area have shut down. Having to pay $9 to see a movie in the theatre is just TOO much. I also see no point in going to watch a movie and having bothersome kids not letting me see the movie.

[DavidRGilson]

@MissLadyL09 I agree too. It's not that I most people don't want to pay, it's a mater of convenience. The market is clearly demonstrating how it wants to consume content, and the movie industry could make a mint if they catered to that market. - I.E. No DRM!!!

[Demache92]

you can tell the that president guy is technologically dimwitted just by how he talks. "We do need to find new ways, whether it be by Internets, or, whether its iPod or by remotely accessed information. Isn't remotely acessed information from various parts of the world THE INTERNET(s)??

[DavidRGilson]

Pretty much yeah :)

[ShaneKorte]

There are too many of us. They cant stop us. We will destory their industry.

[DavidRGilson]

I'd rather it change than be destroyed. Having said that, if things were as bad as the MPAA try to make out they are, then at least one big-name studio would have gone out of business by now, but none have!

[jordler]

the movie industry have a huge inflated ego problem.We the people are what keeps them going. Yet they keep raising prices on movies and make us buy there good . when i was little it was 4$ to see a movie at my local place. now its 10$ 2.5x the price in a few years. it costed me 4$! to buy a 500ml bottle of fanta . We dont need to change for the industry they need to change for us they making us download films by treaty us like crap.

[WhiteChaosVideo]

Funny how the guy who supports piracy has a full head of hair and is more calm. Meanwhile the nazi asshole,is bald with his testicles in a knot.

As he said before,it is inevitable to stop it. Just find means to support it and find new solutions.

[WhiteChaosVideo]

Just like they are not entitled to make good movies,we are not entitled to PAY to watch their crappy movies. If they would lower the price and make better films other than their crappy Transformers ripoffs and AVATAR.

[Awesomesawce89]

@ShaneKorte Even if you did "destroy their industry" then they would simply stop making movies. Who really wins there? Not you.

[wrigglyjiggly]

all these fuckin pigs want is money, fuck them i didnt ask to be born so why should i have to pay for shit!!!!

[spec24]

Jesus f'in' christ if you don't like these people don't buy their damn movies or songs. There are alternatives, aholes!

[Southparkateer2]

The movie and game industry, couldn't be in a better spot with piracy...

But by setting an example of a

couple of individuals, they can scare a percentage of the population into buying them... Making their products spread throughout the world, either free, or/and at a price and still being able to make a profit, for production costs and as an incentive for future projects...

[xerr0n]

i hate idiots who think man made laws ARE laws of nature. Human laws are virtually non existent,. as for piracy vs file sharing as i said when i saw this the first time.

well see !!!

[thecanadianstoner1]

who stealing from who! Movies are over priced, drop the movie fees down to 5.00 Canadian at theater, and 3.00 on DVD and piracy will eventually end. It will be made cheap enough that it will discourage video piracy. The more it cost, the more roads are opened to provide it cheaper. If I want to buy new released movies on DVD, I can for 5.00, it's called competition! Now hollywood has digital competition! Video pirates are now getting guns and they will use them!! Thanks Hollywood!

[lowemission69]

how about hollywood stop making shitty movie that i pay for not knowing that they suck ass how about you guy give me my money back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!