MILLIONS OF FAMILIES SUFFER EVERY YEAR

If they could control it they wouldn't be saying this. People only give in to piracy because it has become to big to stop. If someone came out with a way to block people from copying things permanently they would jump to instal it into every media. People take things and share them with others which is theft. If you notice the rule says the copying and distribution of the media is prohibited This what this guy says only applies to people who copy something and keep it to themselves. But honestly who really does that? As soon as anyone takes anything they distribute it to all their friends.Who is honest enough to follow the rules and not give it to anyone else?

Generally I think piracy has been very positive for competition, "and congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of anti-piracy" (add THAT to the bill of rights), but as for actors and athletes being paid less, then no, if movie companies really can afford to pay hundreds of millions for actors, then they should. Better having that money with the actors, than with the film companies.

It's common economics you learn in friggin high school....you raise prices, demand goes down. When there is a bad economy, the first thing people cut from their budget is entertainment. We have a bad economy and outrageous movie/sports prices....blame it on pirating all you want, you take it away and people still can't afford to go watch a crummy movie no matter who is in it.

Honestly it isn't hard to understand. They need a better business model to fit todays needs. Redbox is exploding faster than anything I've ever seen, and instead of embracing it Hollywood decides to attack them and try to make it harder on them. Netflix boomed too, and Hollywood was fast to destroy their model too....Why did both of them boom so fast and so easily? It was AFFORDABLE. (Remember Hollywood also attempted to destroy theater chains too)

Hollywood is all about ripping people off and making as much money as possible, end of story. I don't care how the money is "divided up" because at the end of the day its millions of dollars going into several hands, not 10 bucks or even a thousand bucks, its millions of dollars.

They need a model where the big blockbusters probably cost more than your standard romantic movie. A model where movies will eventually costs 99 cents for one viewing or for a day after a certain period of time after release (and not a stupid amount at 6 to 10 dollars for 24 hours!)

Blame pirates.....for what? For you losing money on a movie that you just reported broke the billion dollar mark faster than any movie before? For a movie you just said you paid an actor millions of dollars to say "whats up" in? How about you blame you your budgets, your "stars", your poor quality movies?

Yeah it isn't theft, its just stealing, -_- sorry but if you wouldn't like someone taking your stuff without paying or asking, then what makes this ok?

I won't lie and say I never have done it before, but at the same time I have brought the things later. Like a cd comes out an I don't have the money for it, I download it for free and later on buy the cd.

Only beacuse an actor cant buy a 5000000 car they begin accuse piracy, stop wasting money in fancy stuff and save a little for a change.