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This is a discussion on Anti Piracy Advertisement in Cinemas... within the Debating Forum forums, part of the Off Topic category; If any of you guys watch family guy then you will know cinema anti piracy adverts really grinds my gears... ...
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22-07-10, 05:40 PM
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  | Anti Piracy Advertisement in Cinemas...If any of you guys watch family guy then you will know cinema anti piracy adverts really grinds my gears... I wouldn't mind if there was actual proof that the movie industry was taking a massive blow and delivering poor movies but when you hear an actress or actor sitting in front of you, with a white background, stating how "good" film makers can not make quality films due to us evil swines downloading the movie... I saw one last night, I really wanted to shout Bull Sh** at the screen but managed to control myself... Avater any one? If it really is so bad, how in gods name do they managed to continue to release these multi million pound blockbusters? Stealing others work is wrong, I know that we all know that, its the claims which really get me annoyed and the "Poor old us" act from the actors. Any one have any thoughts? This is not a "Is piracy a good or bad" thread, more to should anti piracy campaigns be different? I myself feel they actually make people want to download movies even more as it angers them lol... |
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22-07-10, 05:58 PM
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22-07-10, 06:04 PM
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| I like the one at the beginning of the Simpsons movie, where bart is doing lines: "I must not download this movie illegally" |
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22-07-10, 06:58 PM
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 | damn, just wrote a blimin essay and the page randomly refreshed!! Forgotten most of it now  Basically was along the lines of: very good post gary, totally agree. Think they over dramatise it not realising they're desensitising people! Also I wrote about how I love going to the cinema but cant afford it coz "they have to put prices high so they can afford the movies coz everyone downloads them nowadays"... bullschizer!! I dont see why someone downloading IronMan2 means I have to pay £10 for a ticket and £5+ for a coke!! Absolutely extortionate! I do think though that with 3D less people will download at home. I'm going to see Toy Story 3D at the cinema tomorrow (over £20 for 2 students :O) but I wouldnt download it coz you just dont get the same experience. Although I dont like 3D much as it hurts your eyes after too long! Anyway... I basically agree... they should change their ways... look to fighting the uploaders and making people friendly adverts! Also... why show the advert at the cinema... you've paid to go there... your not going to download it... I'M BLOODY TRYING TO WATCH IT!!  /RANT 
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22-07-10, 07:24 PM
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I've never been bothered by these messages, but then I don't download movies so that's probably why. | |
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22-07-10, 08:29 PM
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| Downloading movies isn't wrong as those ads try to portray , nor is piracy , (although its not actual piracy , as the real pirates are thos wholl come and ransack and raid you) , in actual fact what it is all in all is one person buys or goes to a movie and decides to share it with others , as sharing is just pacing things around , piracy is just pacing an unlimited amount of copies around , its like buying a cake but having a machine that could clone the cake and then sharing out the clones. Just because people download movies , dosen't mean they don't go to the cinema , remember when that unfinished verstion of the wolverine origins movie was released on the net , that didn't stop p[eople from going to the cinema to watch it ,the movie industry isn't deminishing , its growing , if it was loseing loads of money , then how the heck would they be able to make all these piracy ads in the first placce , from the proportion of ads made and how they are shown internationally , its obviously costs a few mil. The reason for this whole piracy awarness by industries , is probably due to the influience from the elite , since their probably scared since we are able to get movies for free , we'll more likely get more sensitive and vital information for free , and maybe other things for free and become independant , so as not be dependant on their constrainive system , meant to imprisen most of the masses ,and make them feel their not in a prison. Source : Analyticle view of things . |
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22-07-10, 08:49 PM
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| Totally agree MJ10, me and my GF went last night to the cinema for the first time within months, we normally go at least once a month but paying for our holiday came first... Sad life I lead lol! Anyway, the shock was to not only see the place packed out (Since I thought every one was pirates now days) but to find the prices had gone up again! What annoyed me most was seeing very well known actors such as Jack Black crying about piracy, I mean really, of all people JACK BLACK! It's like Ossy Osborn promoting an anti drugs campaign! I love the cinema, the going out, big screen, trash food and enjoying a good movie with me GF but the prices are killing it off not piracy. Ads which make multi million pound actors look like 3rd world country poor people... I feel blood boiling lol. |
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22-07-10, 10:07 PM
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What a crock of ..... I remember when taping music off the radio was going to kill the music industry 30 years ago....funny how its still going. What about that crap they try and feed into the minds of the audience that the IRA gets all the money from pirated DVD`s lol You wouldnt steal a handbag would you................so dont steal movies lol  | |
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23-07-10, 12:34 AM
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 | I'm not surprised people download movies, me and the wife took our 3 kids to see shrek 4 in 3d and it cost me 40 bloody quid for the tickets and that was us buying a family ticket. Ps another thing that pisses me of is that they class a family ticket as 2 adults and 2 children i've got 3 kids so i ended up having to buy another full price kids ticket.
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23-07-10, 12:51 AM
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 | Its all a load of balls they only advertise these messages and do all they can to shut downloaders off because itll mean more money for them if we have to go 2 pictures to watch them. But prices just to watch one film is a joke tbh thats why i download i couldnt afford to pay 7 pound every time films come out which there is films out every week i will watch. |
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23-07-10, 12:55 AM
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| [quote=Superdad200;664228] What about that crap they try and feed into the minds of the audience that the IRA gets all the money from pirated DVD`s lol That is the funniest saying ever was almost as bad as the rumour that went around that mcdonalds give there charity box money to the IRA. |
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23-07-10, 07:28 PM
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| The fact that cinemas are expensive is no excuse for downloading movies. Buy the DVD? |
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23-07-10, 07:42 PM
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24-07-10, 11:50 AM
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| Lol Larkino, love mock the week, good find  Cefca, I stated in my OP that this thread isn't about the moral grounds of downloading movies. The point is the way the movie industry try's to act like the poor souls that are loosing billions... Depending on the movie I myself would probably see it at the cinema first, then buy the DVD but if I feel the movie isn't worth my cash and is simply a money spinning hollywood movie AKA The A Team then I will download it. Do you think the guy in the cinema with his Camera will simply go, oh ****, didn't think it was that bad, i'll put the camera away! |
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25-07-10, 10:15 AM
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| Everytime this happens I get annoyed but look around nervously at the same time XD |
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25-07-10, 11:59 AM
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26-07-10, 09:04 AM
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| The thing that gets on my nerves the most is that you have litterally paid to go in and see this film, therefore, they are making money from you. Say you take your whole family in, it could end up costing £40 as stated before. How on earth does that mean they are losing money? For £7.50 you may be able to buy the DVD with whatever else comes with it when it is released 6 months later. Then they are moaning at you, the consumer who has paid, about piracy! I mean, sure, lots of people will pirate the film, but will seeing that advert really stop them from then going on to watch the film? I'm sure they must know that they've just downloaded or recorded a film illegally so what is the point in the advert? They will still watch it. Its almost the same as stealing from a store and then not using whatever you stole. |
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26-07-10, 06:27 PM
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| I think I remember watching something about this and it said If people download films that they wern't going to see then it's still a sale that the film makers where never going to get. It doesn't cost the film makers money as they might have you believe no download will cost a film maker it just doesn't make them any money. Anyway buying the DVD is always the best way for good quality, safer to, less viruses.
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26-07-10, 06:34 PM
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26-07-10, 06:47 PM
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| In that if there was no option to download the film they wouldn't have gone to see it in the cinema.
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