Knock-Off Nigel Downloads Knock-Off Films.

[Stewart]

fair does... does kind of make this thread pointless lol

Yeah, its not like we can discuss the current anti-piracy adds without saying I DOWNLOADEDED PIRATES FILMZ!!11!!*




* - Oh but it is.

[Cozwin]

haha love IT Crowd german episode is the best.

[streetster]

i always like the way that the anti-piracy liken downloaded films to cam releases being watched on a mobile phone putting piracy in the same bracket as stealing a car seems a bit excessive... ho hum...

[e!] ... sorry just been browsing youtube... there are even worse ones ie - click !?

[format]

I'd agree with TheAnimus on this one.

you also have a lot of sad geeks that download masses of content simply because they can and have nothing better to do with their time.

Pretty sure if you take these people out of the piracy equation (because they wouldn't buy the content if they couldn't get it for nothing), there would be a lot less for the content producers to get upset about.

Good point, and totally true.
I hate when companies say " OMFG we lost 500 millions pounds because x amount of people downloaded y. There's no way that most of those downloaders would have paid for the product in the first place.


Which leads me to my next point.

the thing i hate is the one minute of my life i have to waste to watch the ' you wouldnt steal a car... you wouldnt steal a handbag... downloading is a crime' adverts

i pay for a movie and i have to watch that crap everytime i want to watch what ive paid for. whereas pirate dvd's..... get my point tbh.

You can't equate stealing a car/handbag etc to downloading something.
A more realistic metaphor is

"If you saw a car, and decided, 'Hey, nice car, I would like one' and one popped into existance right next to it, would you take it?"

Because downloading an .MP3, or pirated film etc is not something that necessarily leads to loss from the original owner.

[format]

[e!] ... sorry just been browsing youtube... there are even worse ones ie - click !?

That can't be real

[TheAnimus]

tbh its claiming that pirates are theifs and criminals....

First off i've commited many childish acts, and i'd be in glass houses if i where to come out all high and mighty.......... that said.

Pirates ARE theifs, that makes them Criminals.

In the same way going 90MPH down the motorway does.

The problem is that it can be seen as almost a victimless crime when pirating accross the internet. Thats not to say that pirate DVDs as sold in the street are remotely a good idea. A friend of mine was mortified when taking part in a raid they found that the chinese immigrents (illegal) where been virtually slave driven to sell the disks, in a manner that is totally against what i'd hope most of us here belive in, espesually so on our doorstep.

Like i say i think piracy is really decreasing with iPlayer, and the music business is been shaken up by the likes of last.fm and youtube. This is a bit dodgyer because often the content been streamed could of been placed there legitamately to help promote the artist.

[streetster]

we all know that if you could download a lamborghini for free you would

[Cozwin]

i always find the old piracy adverts the best with girl at computer and she presses cancel near end... still downloaded illegally tbh lol so its a silly advert also.

[format]

First off i've commited many childish acts, and i'd be in glass houses if i where to come out all high and mighty.......... that said.

Pirates ARE theifs, that makes them Criminals.

In the same way going 90MPH down the motorway does.

Sorry but please don't compare something that causes thousands (if not more) of deaths to a crime that in most cases is victimless.

[TAKTAK]

i had this on my clipboard... i dunno where from tho, might have been youtube... but it says it all TBH

The corporations that are legitimate often use child labour in the third world to make their products. Are they any better than organised crime gangs? I think not.

but i don't get how that would work.... cos it's not like you knit a DVD... it's all done using machinery... so surely that would be done in heartland america?

[TheAnimus]

Sorry but please don't compare something that causes thousands (if not more) of deaths to a crime that in most cases is victimless.

Thousands?

Notice my choice of setup, motorway. IIRC we've not even got into tripple figures this year!

Now compare that to the money allegidly lost. We sure as hell can put a price on a human life i'm affriad to say, its what governments and insurance companies alike specailise in. Get where i could go with this? I'm not going to try and put some emotive figure like tens of thousands purely because we don't have a reliable source for the loss of income based on who would of actually bought the material if the pirate copy wasn't so easily available.

But we're not going to deny, that at least in london the sold pirate dvds are mostly done by human trafficed chinease immegriants are we? (take a walk down kilburn high road if you don't belive me, the police have given up arresting them because of all the paperwork they have to do)

[Mike Fishcake]

Seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbX1aMajow .

You beat me to it

[pollaxe]

Akin to the 'home taping is killing music' rigmarole.
Tsk.

[IBM]

http://www.knockoffornot.com/elburrito/

oh dear... grass your mates up anyone?

edit: what the hell is this?!

Can we have suggestions for funny names to be submitted to said website?

I've just done Mr. I P Freely & Monseuir Jacques Strap....

Anymore?

[pollaxe]

Hugh Jarss.

[MadduckUK]

i want to get Frank banged up, thats another ******.