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fuck the MPAA
Here’s another timely Legal Movie Download Options, a Joke
By Cory Higgns - P2PForums
”There are websites that provide legal downloads. This is not one of them."
The now defunct Loki Torrents web page proudly displays this message from the Movie Mobsters nowadays.
Websites that offer legal movie downloads eh?
You
mean the MPAA has a place I can download higher quality, legal copies
of all these flicks I've been leeching from sites like Loki over the
last few years? No, way! How cool is that? I guess there’s no need for
me to remain a social outcast and self declared pirate anymore, then.
Ok, now. Where are these sites?
Gee.
You’d think the new web master over at Loki might have included some
links. What a n00b. Guess I'll have to turn to my old friend Google.
Well,
I Google it up and to my surprise, find that most of the results are
actually scam sites that don't offer legal downloads at all. In fact it
seems like they are charging cold hard cash.
Wow! You’d think they’d be number one on the industry hit lists.
Well
after digging a bit I think I’ve found the site they must be talking
about, Zion! And actually, it’s a web page ran by the MPAA.
Couldn't they have just offered me this link on Loki?
Ok. Now for the good stuff, finally getting to pay for what I've been stealing!
They offer me Five whole different sites to choose from - Cinema Now, iFilm, Movie Flix, Movie Link, and Starz.
I take a few minutes to see where I can buy movies I’d been planing to get from Loki this weekend.
Wow! No Million Dollar Baby, or Sideways. And I can't buy the movies. I can only “rent” or stream them in most cases.
And what the hell is up with all these “B” movies?
They
offer tons of them, but not that many of the titles I want. And it
seems the only way to watch them on my TV is if I have a TV-out card.
The formats they offer aren’t something I can make into Video CD's, or
burn to DVD to watch on my DVD player.
Well isn't this shitty. I guess there really are ”websites that provide legal downloads”.
However, they didn't mention they suck.
If
the MPAA is gonna bust consumers balls for “stealing” their product and
forcing J-Low and Ben into the poor house, shouldn't they at least be
offering us what we want for sale?
How, exactly, is it stealing if you can't buy it?
Show me where I can by my unprotected xvid DVD Screener of Million Dollar Baby. Oh wait. I can't. It’s not being sold by them.
So how about you put up or shut up.
How can you say I will not buy your product online if you’re not even giving me a chance to?
Get
us customers an outlet where we can buy what there’s obviously a demand
for. Then, if we still don't, then think about suing us.
You’re making the same mistakes your wayward cousins over at the RIAA have been making.
You make me sick.
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