Comments on: Studios sing chorus of “Blame Canada” http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/05/08/studios-sing-chorus-of-blame-canada/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Rob Hyndman http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/05/08/studios-sing-chorus-of-blame-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-256305 Rob Hyndman Tue, 08 May 2007 20:59:27 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/05/08/studios-sing-chorus-of-blame-canada/#comment-256305 I'm not sure what's worse - that we have to deal with this nonsense, or that our parliamentarians are so dense that they are, or are perceived to be, susceptible to it. Another interpretation: the MPAA doesn't buy it for a minute, and neither does the Canadian Government - it's a PR campaign designed to give our Govt political cover with a gullible public when it bends to the MPAA's will. Sigh. I’m not sure what’s worse – that we have to deal with this nonsense, or that our parliamentarians are so dense that they are, or are perceived to be, susceptible to it.

Another interpretation: the MPAA doesn’t buy it for a minute, and neither does the Canadian Government – it’s a PR campaign designed to give our Govt political cover with a gullible public when it bends to the MPAA’s will.

Sigh.

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]]> By: engtech http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/05/08/studios-sing-chorus-of-blame-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-256296 engtech Tue, 08 May 2007 20:34:26 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/05/08/studios-sing-chorus-of-blame-canada/#comment-256296 Such idiots. If they had a clue they would hire teenagers to make crappy camcorder copies of movies to distribute over the internet. Crappy cam copies are so inferior to DVD/HD-TV rips that it gives the consumer an incentive to buy the higher quality product. If you target the inferior pirated product, then you remove the competition to DVD/HD-TV rips. So when Joe Shmoe goes to pirate a movie he doesn't have to sift through tons of crap cam copies to find a good release. Killing Napster got rid of all the inferior MP3 rips out there and pushed people to BitTorrent and piracy groups that pride themselves on releasing "as good as CD" quality rips. Now they're doing the same thing with movies when instead they should be flooding the pirate channels with bad rips and mislabeled downloads. Such idiots.

If they had a clue they would hire teenagers to make crappy camcorder copies of movies to distribute over the internet. Crappy cam copies are so inferior to DVD/HD-TV rips that it gives the consumer an incentive to buy the higher quality product.

If you target the inferior pirated product, then you remove the competition to DVD/HD-TV rips. So when Joe Shmoe goes to pirate a movie he doesn’t have to sift through tons of crap cam copies to find a good release.

Killing Napster got rid of all the inferior MP3 rips out there and pushed people to BitTorrent and piracy groups that pride themselves on releasing “as good as CD” quality rips. Now they’re doing the same thing with movies when instead they should be flooding the pirate channels with bad rips and mislabeled downloads.

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