Hurt Locker producer to sue anyone who pirated the Hurt Locker - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;22051780]He has a point.[/QUOTE] Because downloading a film is TOTALLY the same as going into someone's house and taking their stuff, right? :rolleyes:

[QUOTE=evilweazel;22051909]You're taking a risk if you pirate movies, there is always that small chance the producer could find out and sue you out of your house. It's your fault mostly.[/QUOTE] It's kinda like killing a rat and then getting murdered for it.

Also, I have never seen the film and I wont see it now even if I wanted to.

good luck, im behind 7 proxies!

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;22051961]It had a 15 million budget and grossed over 40 million. I bet it will gross at least another 5 million, because it's still not done being profitable, so basically, you put a dollar in, you get 3 dollars back. I'm not shedding any tears for these greedy assholes.[/QUOTE] It only made 40 million?

[QUOTE=evilweazel;22051909]You're taking a risk if you pirate movies, there is always that small chance the producer could find out and sue you out of your house. It's your fault mostly.[/QUOTE] Except instead of us paying ~10 dollars for the movie, they're able to sue us for hundreds of thousands of dollars, wasting years of our life, and at minimum, tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees. All because they're ridiculously greedy. This isn't the time of Hammurabi, if someone steals from you, you don't get to steal from them.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;22051961]It had a 15 million budget and grossed over 40 million. I bet it will gross at least another 5 million, because it's still not done being profitable, so basically, you put a dollar in, you get 3 dollars back. I'm not shedding any tears for these greedy assholes.[/QUOTE] How is it greedy to want to be paid properly by everyone who sees a movie if you produced it? Regardless, I'm not on his side almost entirely because of this sentence: [quote] I hope your family and your kids end up in jail one day for stealing so maybe they can be taught the difference.[/quote] When you start wishing people's kids (people who send polite e-mails with honest grievances to you, even if you think they're misguided) go to prison, you've gone about a mile over the line.

[QUOTE=Gummylamb;22051983]It only made 40 million?[/QUOTE] Revenue, yes. [editline]07:20PM[/editline] [QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;22052027]How is it greedy to want to be paid properly by everyone who sees a movie if you produced it? [/QUOTE] Because you're not losing money, not everyone is stealing. You're still making ridiculous amounts of money, just not with the same absurd profit margins that have traditionally been. [editline]07:20PM[/editline] They aren't warning people, or lobbying for legislation, they're hunting people down.

While it's not right to pirate something, the people who do would probably not have paid to see if it they couldn't pirate it. No money is lost because none would have changed hands had they not been able to pirate it. Lots of people can't afford to spend £5-7 on every movie they want to see, more if they want it on DVD.

brb, downloading hurt locker [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Warez" - birkett))[/highlight]

Fun Fact: The Cinema Industry makes more money out of selling food stuffs than actual movies.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;22052009]Except instead of us paying ~10 dollars for the movie, they're able to sue us for hundreds of thousands of dollars, wasting years of our life, and at minimum, tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees. All because they're ridiculously greedy. This isn't the time of Hammurabi, if someone steals from you, you don't get to steal from them.[/QUOTE] I never said it was fair, because it isn't, but it's just the way it is. Still if you're not ready to face up to the consequences of something, don't do it.

I saw how good it was at a friends house and bought it, 4 times, for other people as gifts If I diddn't watch it for free I would never have got it. I'm sure something similar applies to other people

He's just butthurt because the film is overhyped. There's a reason it didn't gross as much as others, and it's not piracy.

Yeah this is going to work out just fine.

For a movie about modern day conflict I thought it was outstanding, there really is no comparison. As for the e-mails, both parties here look like 6 year old kids fighting over a toy truck on the playground. There was really no need to email Chartier about this, especially with a silly e-mail like that, and Chartier looked like some pissed off panicked child vulgarly bashing and saying some really uncalled for stuff. He does have a right to be pissed off but I don't think his plan is going to go through at all.

You can probably find any film from youtube or similar website anyways, why bother downloading.

[QUOTE=radioactive;22052340]Fun Fact: The Cinema Industry makes more money out of selling food stuffs than actual movies.[/QUOTE] Not surprising. Popcorn is the most profitable food.

If you do the math and assume anywhere between $500-$1000 per lawsuit as a settlement, they're trying to sue people for more money than the movie ever did and probably ever will make.

It's funny because Hurt Locker wasn't even that good.

Oh no! people are downloading my shitty movie! I MUST SUE! :downs:

Far from shitty, but it's not as good as people make it out to be.

[QUOTE=gol4z03;22051773]Why bother talking about piracy on any film...[/QUOTE] This. Make a movie and you got to expect people to pirate the shit out of it [editline]09:46AM[/editline] [QUOTE=radioactive;22052340]Fun Fact: The Cinema Industry makes more money out of selling food stuffs than actual movies.[/QUOTE] interesting though not unexpected. I paid 12 bucks for a movie ticket the other day. I then proceeded to buy $30 of food. :v:

[QUOTE=Triumph Forks;22051924]butthurt locker[/QUOTE] I loled a bit.

I think it is perfectly reasonable to sue against people who steal your intellectual property, BUT I find it absurd that when they do sue they make it so that you lose so much money it becomes cruel. Remember the woman who downloaded an album and got charged nearly a million USD? I think the fine should be more than the cost of the movie as a punishment, but nothing more than a few hundred dollars.

You know, I might have been able to go along with him right until I read this; [quote]I hope your family and your kids end up in jail one day for stealing[/quote] Then I lost what sympathy I had. Sounds like bloody Yahoo answers.

After that statement I'm sure his movie is going to be pirated like crazy.

[QUOTE=Edthefirst;22053267]I think it is perfectly reasonable to sue against people who steal your intellectual property, BUT I find it absurd that when they do sue they make it so that you lose so much money it becomes cruel. Remember the woman who downloaded an album and got charged nearly a million USD? I think the fine should be more than the cost of the movie as a punishment, but nothing more than a few hundred dollars.[/QUOTE] Piracy isn't stealing. It's piracy.

[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;22051962]Because downloading a film is TOTALLY the same as going into someone's house and taking their stuff, right? :rolleyes:[/QUOTE] Film Producers need to keep their golden helicopters shiny by polishing them with baby tears, without that their helicopter may tarnish. Yeah it's totally the same thing as stealing guise.

You can't really compare piracy to stealing, you leave the same copy in it's exact condition each time you download it.