Movie Studios Caught Pirating Movies

[aGameOfThrones]

A Russian BitTorrent tracking firm traced pirated movies and television show downloads back to IP addresses from Sony, Fox, and NBC—as TF points out, "these are the same companies who want to disconnect people from the Internet after they've been caught sharing copyrighted material."

This shouldn't surprise anyone. When studios push fascist copyright law, they're speaking on behalf of their shareholders, not the thousands of people they employ. Those people are ordinary people, who, yes, sometimes pirate albums, movies, shows, and games, like millions of other ordinary people around the world. But the hypocrisy is more than superficial. We shouldn't ever let companies that can't control their own miscreant employees shape federal legislation for all of us. [TorrentFreak via BB]

http://gizmodo.com/5867679/movie-studios-caught-pirating-movies

[DamianTV]

The Real Pirates are the Publishers. They neither create the material, nor are they held accountable for theft. They profit from someone elses efforts. They strongarm the content creators into giving them everything just to get published, which leaves the content creators with Nothing, not even rights to their own work. Remember the Lord of the Rings fiasco where the family wasnt paid a time for use of their story?

[JasonC]

use "peerblock" when downloading torrents..

[dannno]

We shouldn't ever let companies that can't control their own miscreant employees shape federal legislation for all of us.

What an apt metaphor for the war on drugs..

We have PRISONS run by our government that are filled with drugs. They can't even keep drugs out of the hands of people who are locked in cages... yet some people expect this same organization to keep drugs out of the hands of free citizens without destroying their rights and their privacy?

[asurfaholic]

Why is a russian firm tracing things here in the usa?