Let's not cut off our nose to spite our interface - Arron Rouse
|
|
|
Warner Brothers wants to hire a filesharer
CAMCORDER OWNER Warner Brothers is looking for a fresh faced university student to carry out its dirty work against file sharers, according a recent job posting.
Warner Brothers, the producer of such silver screen masterpieces as Above the Law and Burglar, despite posting increasing operating profits clearly think it is losing the war against those who indulge in copyright infringement, and of course it would be right. So instead of doing something smart, it is looking for a student to carry out its fruitless endeavours against filesharers.
Like most well-laid plans hatched in media executives' boardrooms, the stupidity of the details makes you realise why so many films these days are of such poor quality. The application requires the lucky student, who will be reimbursed £17,500 for the embarrassment of working for Warner Brothers, to essentially take part in peddling the firm's own content in order to catch filesharers.
The job requires keeping the firm up-to-date on the chatter in IRC rooms, filesharing forums and various other sites. One particular aspect of the job description makes for interesting reading. The creation and maintenance of "accounts on private sites" should mean that the eager intern joining and maintaining download/upload ratios on popular private tracker sites. Quite how the lucky intern will avoid getting one of the "infringement notices" that the firm seems happy to bandy about should be a concern for would-be applicants.
Reading the application copy, it's not hard to understand how a technologically inept company can't win in the 'war against filesharers'. The firm demands that applicants be "IT literate" and have "Internet experience including peer protocols". Quite what a peer protocol is, is far beyond our years of Internet experience, but perhaps it means peer-to-peer protocols such as Bittorrent. Essentially it is looking for a filesharer. Some of you may be thinking of a popular Internet meme from the Return of the Jedi though, sadly, that's not one of Warner Brothers' titles.
Warner Brothers, like all production houses, simply does not grasp the fundamental reason why the majority of people are forced to obtain material through alternative means. Instead of taking simple measures such as lowering cinema ticket prices and maintaining some level of picture and sound quality once inside, it is hell-bent on taking what can only be described as laughable measures to prevent what it believes is its right to gouge customers and provide a poor experience for the privilege.
Those who are interested in becoming a sponsored snitch for Warner Bros can apply until the end of the month. Although you need to be taking part in a "computer related" degree, judging by the genius who masterminded this plan just being able to fill in the form should overqualify you for the job. µ
Share this:
Share
You would think that working with all these cutting edge special effects, cameras and other film technology would give film corporation a better appreciation for the future of the movie industry. With the rising quality and lower cost cost of digital camera equipment the future of movie production will eventually be about community collaboration and electronic distribution. Companies like Youtube are in perfect position to portal all of their content for a small fee. People by thier own mass choice will decide what the blockbuster movie is and not a corporation that gives us limited selection.
warner may wish to consider a realistic pricing strategy - i.e. cheaper than at present
"but hang on, that will mean i would own only 4 private jets instead of 12 - how will i cope?!"
its all about the greed and the paying public are the unwitting feeders
Regardless if it's practical some theaters already did it in the past, they put a 'bright' IR source behind the screen so you get an unacceptable spot on a recording.
Of course when you see what people find acceptable as source that might not work, it really amazes me that on the one hand everything goes HD and on the other hand the most popular rips are single CD size and often shoddy cam versions or internal versions with a constant running timecode or logos over the screen, as if people only want bragging rights they saw something not to enjoy the movie at all, weird.
"Camcorders are sensitive to near-IR. Human eyes are not. Cinemas playing new release movies could play some distracting near-IR light show on the screen. The audience would be none the wiser, except for the guy fiddling with his "malfunctioning" camcorder."
well if you knew anything you would find out that most big release are pirated from dvds from russia which can be released just after two weeks after the film release in north america,
yes alot of those projectors just use dvds...
and in china warner sells there dvds for 3$ to help even it whith piracy and i can tell you there still making money
"Camcorders are sensitive to near-IR."
A simple IR filter will solve that issue.
Camcorders are sensitive to near-IR. Human eyes are not. Cinemas playing new release movies could play some distracting near-IR light show on the screen. The audience would be none the wiser, except for the guy fiddling with his "malfunctioning" camcorder.
the movie theater experience isn't really that great. it's loud and has a big screen, but you have to sit there forever, wait in line, pay high prices, hope you can find a decent seat, hope you don't have idiots anywhere near you, hope the movie is any good at all.... there's a lot of hope, waiting, and frustration involved.
bluray players are still expensive, dvd's are technically obsolete so you feel dumb buying them, and you have to wait months before you can buy them at any rate. And then it's $30 for something that could easily be $5 or $10 and still turn a profit.
Let's be realistic, piracy would be much lower if you could buy the movie on dvd/bluray or download opening weekend for $10.
As for profits being lower, I think that's really hard to say until you try it, and so far nobody has.
notice you don't hear alot about illegal music downloading these days, because downloading at 99c a song it's not even worth the trouble for most people. Only people I know who download music regularly are dj's who need music you can't obtain legally... because people want to hear the latest songs and the latest songs can't often can't be purchased when they are first released on the radio.
i'd happily pay the money if the cinema experience overall was good, but even if it was 50p I still wouldn't go. Went for the 1st time in years the other day, within 20 mins of the film starting there was almost a fight a couple of rows ahead of me and there was at best 30 people in the joint.
excessive prices for snacks and drinks is annoying.
the inability to pause the thing for a slash or beer is a serious setback.
but the real problem is the places are full of the public. scumbags all of them. its like public transport. i'd quite happily get on that if you got rid of all the chavs and idiots and yowling morons and slappers and kids and phone users and people just trying to get off with each other.
oh and dvd prices are too high to take a risk on for something i've never seen (bad films are a norm these days)
and blu-rays? forget that shit. more expensive. take a minute to start up and about a minute to load the disk because of all the stupid DRM. or i can download a copy off the net and have it just work. BD+, animated menus etc who cares. just show me the furking movie.
got a good chuckle. The comments so far were equally hillarious. I lost respect for the content mafia,,, nevermind, I never respected them, not even in the black and white picture days. Their movies and such had too many political agenda's trying to force bull*t ideas into peoples heads. The least controversial example being cigarettes. The rest I skip mentioning because people are such sheep, they actually bought into some of the bull and think it's ok to sodomize and even approve those who practice. It's no wonder they pull the strings of the foreignor pretendor ACTA pusher obama and his sidekick biden.
Yes, 'forced'... you can read... impressive. It's called "creative writing, dipsh!t.
Warner Brothers, like all production houses, simply does not grasp the fundamental reason why the majority of people are *forced* to obtain material through alternative means.
Really, forced?