Another torrent site has fallen victim to the MPAA . Following their recent announcement that they were to fight the MPAA in the courts, www.lokitorrent.com have been shut down by order of the court. The site now displays a warning message from the MPAA warning against the horrors of illegal downloads.
im still finding it hard not to like the MPAA - Unlike the RIAA, they do actually charge descent prices for stuff, artists get their fair share, and alot of it is alot better quality. Sure, if movie filesharing stops for good, then we will just have to buy stuff, but at plays prices, you cant really go wrong
Yea, and renting movies doesnt cost much. Cinema doesnt cost much, so it's not as if you cant get to preview what you're watching before you buy it. It doesnt supprise me, but it wont be the last torrent site.
I would swear but i would get wrong for that , not a happy chap here , Loki was good torrent site and will be missed by lots of people , but thats the way the cookie crumbles. Time to find a few more good sites , i have to fill my betters halfs craving for American telly , i even watch some of it , and if i get a letter they can Swivel ! Their research is a crock of brown stuff , money grabbing ... rant over
Cinema? Cinema doesn't cost much? Who are you kidding? your looking at £13 before you even buy a drink, get some pop corn, thats £20+ gone for increasingly shorter films. Cheaper to wait for the DVD to come out and drop in price. Almost never go to the cinema these days. And to make you feel better, they even tell you how many 100 millions these films make. (Like that's going to encourage me to get in the cinema).
Sorry for the confusion acrimonius, those links were to sites that allowed the free download of movies that have been designated as such by their authors/creators. They were sites used by student/unknown film-makers to publicise their work and get it out to an audience without the need for a distribution deal with one of the major suppliers. I understand the rules on warez etc. and wouldn't overstep them, I was just trying to prove a point that there are sites where one can download free movies legally. Again, sorry for the confusion. m4rk3d
its funny with movie downloads ive never bothered. i actually own all my films. i do operate a try before i buy though. my mate has at last count over 300 films. if i watch something thats worth seeing again. i will pay for it. ive another mate that has had a letter in the past filled him with complete terror.
wow, sucks to be you a ticket to the cinema in edinburgh, with snapfax is £2.70 - and on orange wednesdays i get 2 for 1 otherwise a student ticket is still only £3.30! i agree the drinks and stuff are expensive though - ridiculous prices, but that isnt anything to do with the MPAA!
£3.50 EDIT: Forgot Orange Wednesdays - £1.50! WOOT Bring my own drink. Films dont get increasingly shorter, infact all the films ive seen recently have been "long enough", even supprisingly, Oceans 12. Films make 100s of millions, but the cinemas themselves dont see much of that. If you think how many cinemas there are and people watching, millions of $ isnt that much compared to how much some of them cost.
anyone get the feeling that p2p is being strong armed by the big-boys? I can see p2p going down the pan soon enough, leaving only the 'underground' having their "ways". I'd admit that I've watched a couple downloaded films in the past, but I'll also readily admit that if I actually liked the thing I'd pay for the DVD. You can never have the same quality as on DVD, recently I bought the entire matrix collection - I suppose I could have downloaded it all, at lower quality, without the extras, but I wanted that extra quality you get. I suppose you could argue that the makers deserve the money either way, but I think thats a fairly bad arguement - with every other industry you get to experience what you purchase before you purchase it, paying for the possibility of a good experience is too much of a leap of faith. What we need these days is Internet TV, much like Internet Radio. Where you can watch films and the like on the 'net, and pay for a premium service if you so wish.
Which mega-expensive planet do you live on? Even the most expensive tickets here are no more than £5. The UGC do unlimited cinema for £10 a month! Anyway, as others have pointed out: a)you don't have to buy drinks, popcorn etc in the cinema b)the MPAA have nothing to do with price of said drinks... To be honest, I'm no fan of the MPAA- but, to be fair, Lokitorrent was just ever so slightly breaking the law (let's be honest- they didn't really believe all that traffic was legal...). Sure, the law is an ass, but break it and this is what will happen! Sam
Yea I read about on torrentnews. I read how much money they where making, and suprnova, I think he said about 90,000 dollers a month from advertisements. Its pretty insane stuff, prop why loktorrent started up this fight with MPAA due to the fact the money "isnt" too much of a problem. But, still I would of just closed it, due to the fact, its common sence that it isnt legel. Anyway, I would like a job at MPAA. - S
The whole idea behind P2P as it's done now is that it CAN'T be taken out as there's no central network. With exeem decentralizing the .torrent files as well the only way I could see it happening is if they somehow tracked who dl'ed it (which would be an invasion of privacy regardless of how it's done) and sue them on the assumption that it was being used illegally. Yes dual layer disks let you keep 100% quality, but they're very expensive and most people don't need the extras anyways. Not to mention they're really hard to find even if you are willing to pay the price.
i used to work at a movie theatre, it was a family owned 2 screener. i got in free while i worked there. now that i don't work there anymore i have to pay but they let me "sneak" in food. it's not that much of a secret when i reek of chow mein, am wearing a backpack, and go to the snackbar and ask for a couple forks. you have not seen an action movie until your face has been pigging out on a box of chow mein while sitting in the projection room. a n d y o u n e v e r w i l l ! that projection room is so old school they have a bathroom in it, you never have to leave. PS, i watched "Cribs" last night (the only reason i would not blow MTV off the map) and the actors and actresses aren't hurting. but college kids have the real decision of choosing between movies and CD's or Food. hows that for being unscrupulous?
Except DL blanks are still about $10.00 each. I can buy the original for about $15.00. Why bother? I don' share the view on the MPAA. They say if you want a backup (origninal legal copy) then buy another. I have children that destroy DVD's without even touching them. I make backups and keep the originals safe. Screw the MPAA, sure the movies are reasonably priced, but dam if they are going to stop me from making a backup of my own software.
