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nethawk
11-02-2009, 09:31 PM
60 Minutes, the American investigative television newsmagazine, recently did a report on movie piracy. Specialists on Intellectual Property and movie industry big shots were interviewed and the documentary highlights how much of a threat BitTorrent and online downloading has become today. It also mentions how piracy is linked to drug dealing, child pron and all other bad things in the world. Video is embedded below:
http://filenetworks.blogspot.com/2009/11/60-minutes-report-on-movie-piracy.html


It's hilarious how Hollywood portrays Bittorrent users. They make Bittorrent look so complicated and evil. :happy:
More articles about the subject:

http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-propaganda-hits-60-minutes-091102/
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091101/1818186751.shtml

kostnkost
11-02-2009, 10:06 PM
My heart goes out to the movie business losing millions of $$$$:whistling

DanielleD87
11-03-2009, 03:20 AM
I always thought 60 minutes was honest news... *sigh*

pro267
11-03-2009, 03:35 AM
It was a totally biased interview. The reporter followed the agenda of the representatives of the media to the letter, which is hardly a surprise since the interviewer was so clueless, that they've pretty much fed her everything they wanted to.

What about doing some research about the subject at hand, or getting representatives from all parties involved? You would've thought that a serious program like that would at least ask a representative of the filesharing community to comment.

Rart
11-03-2009, 04:00 AM
Putting file sharers together with counterfeit DVD sellers is great :dry:

Benjamin
11-03-2009, 07:15 AM
"G Whiz technology called Bittorent." <- LOL

""Bittorrent - and what it does is it takes a movie file which is a very large file, and breaks it up into very small pieces" <- Really? You Sure?

I've actually been to an underground DVD shop, it was pretty interesting. I asked the guy there about a new movie they had, he barely spoke english and didn't know what I was talking about. Turned out to be a CAM, what a waste of 2$. People actually watch those?

sez
11-03-2009, 08:32 AM
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1161/screeningroom.png
http://www.megaupload.com/mgr_dl.php?d=K4H9OKF4
Interesting watch as well.

gamesover
11-03-2009, 05:36 PM
i dont know why anyone would expect an unbiased report on filesharing. the people who make this show arent pirates. they dont understand us. they arent much different than the big media companies who are using their show as a soapbox.

nethawk
11-03-2009, 05:54 PM
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1161/screeningroom.png
http://www.megaupload.com/mgr_dl.php?d=K4H9OKF4
Interesting watch as well.

That report by CNN was alot better. It got views from both sides.

Skiz
11-11-2009, 03:56 AM
I always thought 60 minutes was honest news... *sigh*

The liberal media is rarely honest. 60 Minutes has always been quite liberal.