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Fox calls for US to join France
MOVIE MONGER Fox Studios is lobbying the US government to pass an anti-piracy law modelled on the one that is being introduced in France.
The chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment said Monday the US should join France in cutting off the Internet connections of users who repeatedly download copyright protected films.
CEO Jim Gianopulos said Internet 'piracy' is the single biggest threat to the film industry worldwide, and independent films are the hardest hit. Of course not having any ideas and spending a lot of cash on turkeys has nothing to do with it.
Gianopulos told a news conference in Athens, ironically a city whose name is synonymous with democracy and free speech, that it was bad news that the Internet is big and anonymous and it was expensive for the movie studios to chase down 'pirates'.
He demanded that ISPs act like policemen and track down subscribers on behalf of the movie studies, which have discovered that doing the job themselves was making them about as popular as the Boston Strangler.
Gianopulos said punishing repeat offenders would help create "a level playing field" for filmmakers. Well obviously not all filmmakers. Those studios that made the most money would save the most if 'piracy' was punished by crucifixion for a first offence.
Apparenlty the film studios make sod all money from their flicks, and 'pirates' take away the only cash they make, leaving them on the street with beggers bowls. Some movie executives can't even afford to keep their fourth mansion and have had to sell their wives' second stretch limos.
"If we can do that, it would be a big victory against piracy," he said, cautioning that taking away the small percentage of profit many films make threatens the industry.
Gianopulos said that it is equally important to inform young people about the problem of 'piracy'. He said it is important to show them that there is a connection between what they're doing and theft, and what they're doing and peoples' jobs.
Gianopulos praised the French government for bravely doing what it was told and bringing in laws that punish filesharers in a way that does not cost the movie industry anything.
In France the government is establishing a special policing agency with the power to cut off filesharers' Internet access. In no other country does an industry get its own legally sanctioned mob of corporate enforcers and this is something that the US could benefit from, he indicated. µ
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are fed up with the french government !
my opinion is their problem is because they are greedy, if the movies were a little cheaper more people could afford them, but instead of going with the format that would have been cheaper(HD-DVD) they went with the expensive format and have tried to keep prices high. The higher the prices, the more people who can't afford them and become pirates.
American ISP's are not about to start killing their revenue source to appease the greedy studio execs.
Or will they.....?
Everybody has a price, even ISP's. (Just ask France.)
No, Jimmmy 'Sheep Sodomizer' Gianopulos, what is destroying movie industry is not piracy, it is abysmally poor movies you skanky degenerate perverts are 'producing'.
I haven't been to see a movie for months, and given what is being 'produced' these days, it'll be years longer.
The filth they put out is all evil propaganda garbage and the world would be a better place if they just went belly up. My kids know marriage is between a man and a woman but if you were to ask the mpaa or the riaa, they would think it is between anything that can get it's licks. Just plain garbage, as Roger Waters says, "they should all be lined up against the wall".
piracy doesnt reduce revenue - the people who pirate wouldnt buy movies anyway because they are such an extortionate ripoff
i dont buy movies because they are CRAP!
...nothing to do with the price at all
Fox Studios is lobbying (bribing) the US government. Just like the insurance industry is getting the fed to blackmail us into buying it's products.
Fox is a black eye to republicans and should be broken up. Not once but twice has Murdoch had the media Monopoly laws changed so he could own a larger portion of media in the US. F' him and his company.
I have to agree with the previous comment . This about abuse of power by using his Global Media empire by Rupert Murdoch. Its his agenda through FOX to make changes he wants. This man is a egomaniac who needs to be shut down sooner then later. He is one sick puppy, and thats putting it mildly. Again I say its abuse of power just because he has it. People need to quit supporting his empire, find out what tv stations he owns, magazines, newspapers, and stop using his services. I have, I know it won't make much of a difference, but at least I have the satisfaction of knowing my money is not going into his pocket.
The French "Government" are bunch of Socialist Pigs, anyway. The US Gov seems to be heading down that path as well.
To be clear on my comment..Not the French citizens. Just the government!
... that the author may not have a huge amount of sympathy for the IP ravaged underclass who are the victims here. :) Ahhh, bless their little cotton socks.
Let's remember that we are discussing films (or music or games, and not a single one of them is worth putting up with the DRM that inconveniences every legitimate buyer of the 90 minutes of (mostly) questionable output that they produce. If the producers are so worried about keeping their content safe, then the most logical response is simply let them keep it. Let them lock it up in the most secure digital or physical safe that they posses. I have a feeling that the sun will still rise in the morning irrespective of whether we have watched/played/listened to their output or not. Whatever moral panic they feel that they have whipped up with regards to their products is simply irrelevant in even the most minor scheme of things.
Why can't they just give us H.264/mp4 with AC3/AAC audio in varying bitrates, its what we want. I've kids and would rather stream my dvd's etc, just watermark the file so that it can be traced.
Pirate will pirate fact and nothing will stop them, the only way to do so it to bet them at their own game. Freetards on the otherhand will never pay.
We should all boycott Hollywood and wer could do this.Just stop buying new movies and buy them all used.And also do not go to a theater.
Hollywood wants to screw with us we can give it right back to them.
They are opening up a box here they do not want to open up.
We do not need their greedbag krap any longer.We have the Internet,games,other things,etc.We do not have to be at their mercy.They exist because of our money so do not give them any.
this is one case where I will happily remind the American public of all the names we were called when Chirac refused to get us dragged into Iraq.
I mean really, guys, do you actually want to do the same thing as us pinko communist cheese-eating surrender monkeys ?
Really ?
Come on, no God-fearing red-blooded proud American can possibly accept doing that, can you ?
And remember : limiting your freedom is anti-american and anti-constitutional !
(as you will notice, I'll do anything I legally can to thwart the plans of Evil MediaCorp)