Judge orders Time Warner to out illegal downloaders

And after Time Warner turns over all the illegal downloaders, should they turn over themselves for illegally streaming video to their iPad app?

It wasn’t me !!!!!!!!!

They’ll never catch me!

Hollywood cracks me up. Keep in mind that I don’t pirate movies, but check this out.

In the last couple of years, Hollywood has cranked out a handfull of blockbusters (i.e. “Toy Story 3″, “The Dark Knight”, “Inception”, “Avatar”, “The King’s Speech”, etc.). This tells me that people aren’t unwilling to pay to see movies, they just want to see something that they would deem “good”. Yet, 90% of the films Hollywood churns out are garbage, and people are finally tired of wasting their money.

Where I work, if I don’t do my job (and do it well), then they’ll fire me. However, movie studios expect to get paid, even when 90% of the movies they generate are barely-written drivel.

I think the Amish have the right idea.

And this is why you should always encrypt your traffic if you don’t like prying eyes.

thats why you give up torrents, after my 50 “first time” warnings, stopped the torrents and never been bothered since

The march of fascism is well underway in NATO countries.
They will tighten their grip on everyone’s neck just in time for the NWO.

What good is encrypting your torrent going to do? All that needs to be done is for the organization to join the group and harvest IP addresses that way. Encryption means nothing in that regard.

Oh and for the guy who thinks Peer Guardian or Peer Block is any good…..I have a bridge to sell you.

that judge does not deserve to be a judge.
i read about this earlier and was pissed.
no justice for tjhose who are accused

This is a joke. I know people who pay medium to high broadband prices for the privilege of downloading what they want when they want. Y should they pay that amount. As for me I dint have a broadband connection cause I have my hd7, unlimited data and I don’t download stuff.

This is a joke. I know people who pay medium to high broadband prices for the privilege of downloading what they want when they want. Y should they pay that amount. As for me I dint have a broadband connection cause I have my hd7, unlimited data and I don’t download stuff.

Your text should mention that this concerns P2P/Torrent users only…

Also outed: People who are having their internet stolen by cheap neighbors.

If you know you’re screwed, just buy the movies you downloaded. It’s not illegal if you own it.

Ever wonder why movies and music cost the same no matter what the demand? Why do movie houses charge the same for the blockbuster as they do for the dog? It’s called price fixing. The entertainment industry tells the movie houses and the record stores how much to charge. If they do not comply or step out and charge something less in order to increase business then they mysteriously are treated less favorably by the industry. People who work in the industry know this. Movies and music are not milk or gas. Will Congress investigate the industry for fixing prices that is to the consumer’s detriment?

For all you defenders of IC answer that one. You can’t.

I would LMAO if everyone they listed had hard copies of the movie!!

You’re all trash talking holier than though bigots who are simply kidding yourself if your trying to convince anyone alive that you’ve never downloaded a movie or any kind of music, or anything else for that matter for free. And if you have never done so you should be in the running for the next pope or you’re too incompetent to do so. So for one person to be critical of another person for commonly shared practices is why the United States is in the shit hole its in. Some say let them download and some say it’s wrong and they should have to pay. But i bet you when the people that are for the downloads get something they vendor pirated, or the people who say it’s wrong end up in court for the very reason they were so eagerly bashing someone else… then we’ll all cry FOUL… but as you guys argue over whether or not people should be able to share items that they purchased with whom so ever they choose you won’t notice your freedoms and civil liberties being stripped from you one at a time till your stuck in a communist country with governed and monitored “EVERYTHING”. We’re all gonna die so do you really want to waste precious moments of your life arguing the validity of whom is to blame? The movie theaters are getting away with highway robbery, the movie companies are getting away with the same, and the funniest things will be when all is said and done and the dust finally settles, the internet companies lose out because people don’t trust them not to be turned over to some judge to be tried in a court of morons over something quite trivial, hollywood loses out because people are tired of being duped into paying astronomical prices due to production cost being inflated, and we as consumers lose out because we still pay these astronomical prices to see garbage productions 75% of the time, but most of all we cant get back the time we wasted watching these gilded pieces of shit. That’s why I watch cartoons and anime, at least then i know exactly what im getting myself into. And i hope my children dont turn out like adults and children i’ve come across in my life because if thats the case my only peace of mind is knowing.. one day i will die and be rid of all this nonsense. Peacrest OUT—

Hollywood makes a ton of crap, but it really doesn’t make sense to say “I would never pay to watch that”, then turn around and steal it.

That’s like saying you would never pay to eat pigs feet, then turn around and shoplift a jar of it and eat it.

I think its horrible the judge wants to know individuals, I think this a ‘problem’ thats between the movie studios, internet providers and P2P providers… pulling in the individuals is bad. You don’t crack down on the users, you crack down on the dealers.

Although, my argument is always this: These people would NOT PAY to see the movie regardless if you can steal it or not. If anything, one person ‘steals’ a movie, tells another person, “Hey, it’s actually pretty good!” and then that person goes and RENTS the disc and then tells someone else who goes and buys it, etc. Oddly enough, I’ve had that happen from time to time.

So what happens when American citizens begin to realize that
A. The movie studios want to arrest people and that
B. The government forced the ISPs to give up these people?

So, is the potential amount of loss from the sharing of these movies greater than the loss that would occur from backlash when people refuse to see movies and find alternatives to the ISPs that helps put people in jail or fined insane amount of money?

The ‘cost of making a movie’ is insane anyway. More reliance on CGI reduces the cost of special fx. Product placement helps pay for the film. How come studios find ways to help pay for the movie, but yet costs continue to rise? Here’s another thought: Some cruddy ‘A list’ actor demands millions for a role, gets paid millions, driving the cost of the film up, then it raises the price of the seats in the theater and they wonder why people are stealing? Then you got a stuntman making PSAs about not getting paid for the work they do? Come on. The bottom line is that Hollywood is full of crooks and they are making BANK everyday, then the studios do their best to screw everyone out of money, make up hundreds of different ‘costs’ that make it seem like they spent a lot more on the film and to make it look like it was harder to make profit.

No sympathy for this industry. They don’t want people to steal, then start thinking outside the box already. Its a new century and the way these businesses were run is becoming a detriment to themselves, but instead of looking internally for answers, they just want to start scaring consumers with fines and jail time. that’s going to make it worse for them.

But no excuses for stealing either… stealing is stealing and we all take a chance.

y cant they just make digital content like 5$ a pop instead of 20$, being the same price as the physical content, if they did this, that would in my mind eliminate the need for having to dl illegally, cuz i wouldnt even think twice about it and could justify spending 5$ on a HQ digital copy. but no, the production companies r trying to sqeeze every dollar out of the consumers, and dont care. just my 2 cents though

Arrrrr…

I don’t think is right what the judge is doing. I think that Time Warner should have something encoded to make it impossible for movies to be downloaded ilegally..( I’m not a tech so don’t know the correct terminology) but you get my drift.,not punish people that know what they’re doing and can dowload. It’s not their fault..

I think the copyright owners do that the right to investigate people who might be infringing on their copyrights, BUT… they should pay the cost themselves. IT is expensive for TWC to dedicate all that man power to those lookups. In turn, that cost gets passed down to me. These are civil cases, TWC should be reimbursed for the cost by the plaintiff.