Comments on: 20,000 BitTorrent Users Sued for Downloading Uwe Boll’s Far Cry

By: Bubb

Bubb — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 14:25:26 +0000

It’s the same with the porn piracy davenport bs, these movies are cheaper to buy the copyrights for and therefore are easier to try and sue people over.
Yes it’s stealing etc, but these techniques to take peoples money is a joke, its a bit like going behind the govenments system itself.

Real laws or diffirent actions are needed.

By: Julien

Julien — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:02:59 +0000

This doesn’t surprise me a bit but I won’t have any remorse from what I download. I usually buy-rent movies but find myself going thru the illegal interweb routes when looking for a specific, hard to track down movie that I wanna watch. I.E. was Triangle that the Film Junk folks recommended. I have a wide selection at my repertory video box but no chance of finding that.
So until they come up with a viable web-based rental service (a la Netflix instant watch) that will provide an infinite catalog, I’ll continue to go thru the dark route.

By: rus in chicago

rus in chicago — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:40:00 +0000

or you could just buy the films….

By: cib3k

cib3k — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:22:47 +0000

This was only a test. They’re trying to see if it works. They went for little movies because there is a small number of people downloading them and they can sue them all. Monitoring big movies means going after hundreds of thousands of people, and it’s too much. They start with little movies and if everything plays out well they continue with bigger ones. If they sued me, I’d try to organize the other victims and strike back with something like a class action suit. There would be a large number of people involved, and by putting little of our money together we’d be able to get the best lawyers money can buy. We’d probably not have any chance of winning, but we’d put up a fight serious enough for the MPAA and copyright groups to consider that it’s too much trouble going after us.

By: Matt in Maine

Matt in Maine — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:13:57 +0000

Well I suppose he’s got to make his money back somehow.

By: michael bay

michael bay — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:53:11 +0000

Wait! I figured out their advising CEO, its Timmaay from South Park.

By: michael bay

michael bay — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:51:31 +0000

Its a retarded concept to go after people who have downloaded shitty movies. Wouldn’t you want to protect your ACTUAL money makers? Don’t they know that this “german software” can easily be downloaded to counter their attempts? Who’s giving them advice? Homer Simpson?

By: Paul Andrews

Paul Andrews — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:13:02 +0000

I think those that dowloaded Far Cry have suffered enough.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:14:00 +0000

@Matt

Americans obviously. I mean, Hollywood is where most of the shitty movies come from, and they earn a whole lot of money from them (Transformers, Avatar, etc. etc.)

By: Matt in Maine

Matt in Maine — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:43:19 +0000

Who would actually pay for that movie?

By: Kyriacos

Kyriacos — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:18:30 +0000

Are you safe if you live in a third world country?
Is it possible they start chasing Iraqis for this also?

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:30:42 +0000

Heh. Warner Bros has been in this game for some time too: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/mar/30/warner-bros-hiring-student-spy