All videos embedded direct from youtube :
1: Are the all the people in this video actors ? if so … it is lying to you from the start, by feigning to be a live or documentary video. The geezer has been chosen to appeal, the black lady has been carefully chosen, the white man who takes the dvd has been carefully chosen to be white and in a suit, looking allot like a banker(who are currrently not flavour of the millenium, hence the souless guy is the pirate), the bedraggled older microphone lady has ben chosen specifically, all the characters are in a marketing psychology way, chosen to attempt to have an affect on you, and overall it comes across as deliberate and weak propoganda.
2: The womans job appears to be little more, than that of a human microphone stand which I suggest is not a fit job for a human being with a soul ! and her job should therefore be replaced by a microphone stand.
3: The lying wise guy is an emotive verbal bully, this video has been edited to remove the emotive words “you have no soul”
as evidenced by this subtly different copy of the video here.
4 : The situation is binarised down to this woman loses her job if you pirate the dvd etc, this to imply that pirated copies = lost sales, which is not a direct assumable relationship, and therefore a fallacy or in simple terms a lie. The people who pirate things most often do not have the disposable income to pay for all that they pirate. In a scenario where piracy were made impossible, it would lead to a increase in sales but in no way the equal, of the total that is pirated. People would just stop watching entirely what they couldn’t afford, and that which wasn’t of sufficent quality that warranted the expenditure, which in my opinion is 90% of the output, and when it’s a real choice between films or food and rent, I can assure you films lose out, people who pirate tend not to be homeowners.
5: Every medium has suffered piracy … tape,cd,video its just the internet itself as a spying network for the media industry, now provides the media giants, with ways to tangibly measure it, which they never had before except via the medium of blank sales and guestimates, whereas with other older mediums tape etc, it was done out of sight in the home sense, this is not a new phenomena, just the law is becoming poised to throw all the power into the hands of the media idiots, via laws like sopa and pipa.
6: The film and tv Industry are full of people who are massively overpaid compared to a man in a bakery or someone who sweeps the streets, there output is not necessarily more valuable, many examples could be cited :
Jay Leno : basically working in tv buys you your own personal 135 car and 100 motorbike museum ?
Charlie Sheen :
“At the peak of his Two and a Half Men career, Charlie Sheen was making $1.25 million per episode. That amount grows to $2 million when you include back end syndication points. A season is typically 24 episodes, so Sheen’s salary was roughly $48 million per year from the show.”
Tom Cruise 70 million a peice for a couple of his films
check this link out
If the film and media industrys are in financial trouble then please stop paying the top 40% of the industry silly money first ! and redistribute these wagecuts to the people who are doing an impression of a microphone stand, so she can waste an existence pretending to be a microphone stand, as you the industry seem to think thats a great idea.
Fiscal imprudence is rife within the film industry because its a gamblers game, everyone is attempting to take everyone to the cleaners, the industry the public for piracy, and everyone in the industry each other fro as much as they can get.
7: The media industry has not moved with the digital revolution, it has to a large extent fought it, which is why it does not profit from it
8: The truth is that digital data itself has the innate quality of being superbly easily and freely reproduceable, this easy duplicability is a benefical quality for the profits of the media industry, only if they can control the illegal duplication of things on the internet, which is where pipa and sopa come in.
9: Digital copying fundamentally means the price of media duplication and distribution compared to physical mediums is now almost negligible, hence theyre should be a difference in price between the old medium and the new internet based media, this is something certain parts of the industry doesn’t wish to face.
10: perhaps we should sue the media for the plastic pollution created by all the discs they created which will end up in landfill when digital distribution was perfectly possible 8 years beofre it has really taken off.
11 Netflix is to a large extent will be the model of the future, for those wishing to make money from online film viewing. And with a reduction in the extravagant wages that the upper percent of workers are paid.
12 Piracy is a form of promotion, that gathers mass to stars wage demands, if you removed all piracy the industry would no doubt have to spend more on promotion of stars and films, to make the same sales they currently do.
Ok in summary does piracy need tackling, yes … piracy has and always will always need tackling, nothing has changed in that statement for the last 50 years, what aggravates and irritates me is the over the top suing of the individual for minor infringement, and that sopa and pipa give away too much power to control the shape of the internet in the interests of the media, who seemingly want to wrestle control of it and alter its destiny to create a new form of push televisual media network over the top of it, for themselves to own and control to make profit from, effectively turning the internet into their private cash register from a media perspective, this is not the destiny of the internet to be hijacked in such a way by an aged media mindset. And secondly for them to stop winging so much with such emotive propoganda when they themselves have not fully embraced the digital revolution or made the most of it by offering what the public desire in the package they want it.