So, last year they caught ca. 67000, and in one week they caught 10000?. That sounds like they only need to do 7 weeks work a year to maintain their average. Or are they targetting 520,000 this year?
Darwinism in action. The dummies are easier to catch, but as the numbers still loose drop it gets harder and the still-free are the more intelligent ones. Last one in's Einstein. Like catching turkeys in a field at Christmas.
what you pluck them, cook em, n eat em its still damn impressive to net that many in a week, regardless of how many weeks of prep.
I hope the MPAA doesn't start Operation: PIRATERAID or I'm fooked! Although in fairness a lot of my pirated movies I own in VHS form and can't get around the Macrovision when trying to convert them to digital form. Saw that on the news... some funny clip where they broke into the wrong house. The guy wasn't even pissed either... I know I sure would be if the FBI (or whoever) kicked in my door to find out they wanted my neighbor. Although not as much as finding out my neighbor is a crazed murdering rapist.
up converting from macrovisioned VHS is kinda easy, a famous search engine would help you there. the thing is, why would you want to? the quality is naff. and if you (legally) bought the VHS, its still a grey matter as to if its legal to copy it. (in the UK its pretty much illegal, but then from my understanding of the law its technically illegal to boot most OS's).
I'm too lazy to get around it and to waste time and HDD space recording it first then reencoding it. I think the illegality of downloading it (via bit-torrent) is mostly that you're uploading as well. But yeah... the quality sucks. I recorded one movie at "DVD" setting (maybe a step down... forget) I think so it was about 2.5GB, finally found a ripped DVD version and the quality is 50x better while it's 1/3 of the size. Point being, I WOULDN'T want to, hence the downloading. And I'm sure the US has different laws regarding that stuff than the UK. I don't know (or care for that matter) what ours are
erm if your worried about uploading (helping evils spread) i've heard various people yack on about usenet, no uploading needed! myself thou, i don't care about films, i buy so many now, there so much cheaper than 5 years ago. If only the music industry would follow suite, a fairly new artist joanna newsome, now the album is £11. i mean ELEVEN BLOODY QUID, now thats taking the piss, as a student working a (fairly skilled) part time job, thats 2 hours pay after NI tax (thanks new labour!). so hopefully they'll be busy catching murderes robbers + kiddie filders before they bug you! or the music industry will realise it can't make that much profit of such little sales.
The problem now is, where do you send them? Sooner or later, thats going to be a problem to the building as well as the taxpayers.
