After RIAA, Verizon Now Sending MPAA Notices

[exfileme]

Verizon Communications is now sending MPAA notices to accused pirates.

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[doc70]

so, they first get in the same boat with the devil, and then refuse to comment on that, like they're ashamed of it or something.
If they are planning to cap bandwidth/access, WTF do they care about getting in good graces with RIAA. Nobody will be able to watch anything online without breaking the limit of their account.
F you MPAA, and RIAA, and F the ISP that sucks up to you instead of serving the customers that are in fact paying their fat salaries and bonuses.

 

[r0x0r]

I bought 4 CD's and a DVD this week that I pirated a few weeks back. I doubt I would have bought them if I didn't pirate them and find that I like them.

Wonder if the RIAA/MPAA knows that the increased exposure that piracy brings can also bring new customers...

 

[Guest]

Long live Jack Valenti!!!!! I'll call it even when someone sends me a check for all of the stupid hissy cassette tapes I purchased over the years full of 23 crappy songs to get the one I wanted. NO money for music, NO money for Movies. Go F yourself.

 

[feenyxfire]

Totally agree with r0x0r, a lot of 'pirating' actually results in sales that would not have occurred, so in reality it's free advertising. And in regards to the bandwidth caps: if you watch a lot of movies and TV shows on Netflix downloads (e.g. to an Xbox 360) or Hulu, it is rather easy to get within spitting distance of Comcast's 250GB/mo. limit. A couple hours of DVD-quality (nevermind Blu-ray) is easily 10GB... do that most days of the month and you'll start getting nasty emails from Comcast: all without breaking the law. Keep doing it and they'll actually terminate your connection for 'excessive use'.

 

[Jerky_san]

So I wonder.. what if I were go and download a bunch of movies I already own.. Wonder if that is fair use or piracy..?

 

[frogr]

The ISP's don't want you to download from free sources and netflix. Their long term plan (especially the cable companies)is to have huge media servers with all the content and to charge you to download on demand. Of course there will be no bandwidth cap from there servers (because that usage wouldn't clog their network.) Also they don't distiguish between downloading at peak time and at 3 AM because they aren't interested in you viewing or sharing free content. They want to charge you to access their content.

 

[seatrotter]

[citation][nom]frogr[/nom]...Of course there will be no bandwidth cap from there servers (because that usage wouldn't clog their network.)...[/citation]

I think you're seriously mistaken there. The actual "clog" is not with their internal/backbone network, but the last mile. My apologies if I can't cite a source since I don't keep track of a lot of things, but it has already been mentioned a lot before.

 

[hack__you]

the picture makes me think of Ron Jeremy during my "research" session

 

[brendano257]

Say good bye to freedom in the name of big corporations and greedy companies. Damn what is wrong with the world today.....

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]brendano257[/nom]Say good bye to freedom in the name of big corporations and greedy companies. Damn what is wrong with the world today.....[/citation]
Nothing's wrong - everything's going exactly as the dollar note dictates.

 

[jabliese]

[citation][nom]frogr[/nom] Of course there will be no bandwidth cap from there servers (because that usage wouldn't clog their network.) [/citation]

[citation][nom]seatrotter[/nom]I think you're seriously mistaken there. The actual "clog" is not with their internal/backbone network, but the last mile. My apologies if I can't cite a source since I don't keep track of a lot of things, but it has already been mentioned a lot before.[/citation]

That there be sarcasm, seatrotter me matey. The greedy landlubbers will never have their pipes clogged by revenue generatin' content, it'll flow smooth as the sea on a becalmed day.

 

[-unknown-]

It will never happen but I wish there was a way to stop piracy all together for a few months, just to show what the effect would be on sales. I guarantee you that sales would remain flat at best and decrease at worst. Piracy is just a convenient excuse for poor sales of any media (since the extent cannot be proven and the side-effects unseen)

 

[JOSHSKORN]

I've got a great idea for combating pirating. It's called, FIX THE ECONOMY! STOP INFLATION! If our dollars weren't so damn useless and it didn't cost so much to do and buy things, less people would be tempted to cheat! At least we aren't Mexico...yet. Seriously, though, $8.25 for a matinee? Really now.