I tell you man, whenever there's an Econ crisis, the little man and the little'er man get it point blank while all the fat cats keep what they always had and, in fact, usually end up with more.

Sorry, busting a little early 20th century soap box in Washington square style.

Solidarity people, Solidarity.

And before Harry claims that policy here is as it has always been I'll shout- REVISIONIST!!

If the policy here was as is claimed then this site would have never- briefly- gained the power- and popularity- that it did: people came- CAME!!- here for information that they could not get elsewhere and elsewhere were mostly corporate outlets- exactly what this has become, fella's.

As has happened so often in history, you have become what you beheld and hence designated yourselves to eventual exctinction and, Quint and Vern aside, the sooner the better.

http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh

Then again, the short-haired Sabertooth and the ridiculous flying-attack-on-helicopter pretty much telegraphed how it was going to turn out.

Can we PLEASE have the Miller/Japan story now we've exhausted all the tiresome 'Weapon X' bollocks?

But the way Hollywood sets this up...you pay before you take the first bite...hell, you pay based upon 30 seconds of a 2 hour movie and the pompous ramblings of what are usually some bought and paid for "critics", then 20 minutes into what turns out to be shit...they typically won't refund your $ if you walk out.

Oh...you can demand your money back...but it isn't often they will give it too you...Nope....you pay up front..and when the movie sucks you don't have much recourse.

The Box office should be at the exit...if you leave before the half way point because it sucks ass..no charge.

Why this rant here? because the way I see it Hollywood owes me at least one pirated movie per year...Fuck, they owe me three for Cloverfield alone...one to pay me back for the money I wasted watching it...1 more awarded for damages for the 80 mintes I'll never get back, and one more for pain and suffering.

It seems as though film companies should spend more effort refining their chain of custody security than trying to murder john doe downloader in the courts.

How can they not know who's copy was pirated?

Yeah, just as "the crisis" is the best excuse now, allowing thousands of company executives to do whatever they want and blame "the crisis", "the piracy" is an even better excuse for several industries. Get ready for holy calls of: "We need more online surveillance and content control in Web 2.0, because WOLVERINE TUK ER JERBS!"

Or shut the fuck up.

Fuck, it IS the End of Days, I'm in complete and total agreement with DanyGlovers_DickBlood

Go on, Beaks, prove to me how piracy is damaging ticket sales when those sales are UP and ways to pirate are greater that ever. This is a MYTH created by the film industry- who also try to guilt us by associating piracy to the slave trade, drug running and child abuse (don't know how the anti-piracy adverts run in the States but that is very much how they play here in the U.K). I'd have thought they would have found a way to throw in canibalised necrophillia while they were at it.

In truth they're probablly behind some of the more major leaks themselves- no such thing as bad publicity, after all.

Wolverine is a totaly toss-up. Some people say it's gonna be shit, while others hail it as the next coming of the cinematic bliss train. Personally, I think the movie's gonna suck. I don't plan on pirating it, nor do I plan on seeing it unless I happen to be at a friend's house, and I'm not paying with anything but my free time.

If this really is a leak, whatever. Ha-ha for FOX. Cry me a river you failed douche bags of a film production company.But...

if this is an April Fool's Joke, then that's fucking hilarious.

There are reviews sprinkling the internet as we speak. If this is an April Fool's joke, there are a lot of people in on it.

Wouldn't it be great if this just kept happening and they went out of business? At least there would be less boring, distractingly dumb previews.

Now they fucking got it right. Whadya say Fox? Wanna give that X men property back to the people it belongs to? I want my Phoenix Saga done the right way, in space and everything.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!!

...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! HAAAA!!!!

What the fuck Fox? Cyclops powers? Laser beams and Terminator vision? Do you even read the comics? That is the funniest shit I have read in a long time.

This isn't conding piracy - theft is theft and it impacts on the industry. The trouble is if the Workprint of Wolverine was good, then it will still make an insane amount of money at the box-office. People still underestimate the critical importance of word of mouth.

Its a fanboy project - the merchandise, boost in the Wolverine franchise, comics, DVD/Blu-Ray sales etc would be insane if the quality of the product was good. It's looking like its average at best.

Additionally I wasn't aware that it was 'out there' until I read this page today.

fox, start making good movies, and I gurantee you at least $30 from me for really well made movie you create.

No comparison.

Doesn't seem like a very fair way to pass judgement on it if you ask me.

Kids? Fuck you, elitist twat. I'm sick to death of "fans" like you.

Kids, piracy isn't cool, unless its a Gore Verbinski trilogy that seriously disappoints in the last act.

Let's hope they capture these scoundrels and hang them in chains, but not before they sing some corny fuckin' pirate song that will make at least one AICN critic jizz in his pants.

And boy is that some dumb sheeyit.

Opinions like assholes, huh? More like an asshole with an opinion.

I know for a fact that they are still working feverishly on it.

Go ahead, placate me. Just admit it.

A V A T A R. December. Nothing else matters.

It's just NOT worth it, kids.

EVERYONE badmouthed that thing before it came out.

Of course, that was perfectly justifiable. It was AWFUL. And I normally like MN Shammy movies.

I do hope they get them back, for no other reason that it would be fun to see characters pop up into other movies like they do in the comics.

basically the guy told me they don't need any new franchise because they have a hundred years of films to re-make and sequelize.

I remember laughing in disbelief at what a cock smoker he came accross as. I was genuinely there to talk business and all this guy could do was flex his muscles about how good he was and how secure he'll be without me.

needless to say, i learned a lot about the reality of filmmaking that day.

The future looks bleak and I'm in agreement with the above poster - karma is a bitch.

what was his name?? can't for the life of me remember. I wonder if he remembers me?

Yeah, I don't like piracy, either. There was an anti-piracy ad aired on tv and the only memorable person I remember in that ad was Jim Cameron with a fancy video camera.

Bigwigs at Fox: "Bring me the head of the leaker!"

We can only hope Jim Cameron and co. keep very, very tight reins on Avatar. So tight not even the mice's asshole can emit a fart.

those types need to go to prison - thru their sheer arogance alone.

In this case though, I condone every man, woman and child downloading Wolverine. Twice.

Fox needs to join the Big Three automakers on the chopping block. Like Ford and GM, Fox has spent years pumping out garbage products and acts like an indignant douche when nobody shows up to watch their shit.

This studio gave us Max Payne, The Day The Earth Stood Still and Babylon A.D. within a four month window. Three of the worst movies ever made in the same season.

And early reviews would at least BE reviews, something this site seems to have forgotten about.

Seriously man, how far is fox's cock up your date? are you paralized with your head pointed to the sky - the cock tip visible poking out your mouth with you saying in a muffled voice "take it out just a little please"

what gives man? is that really the direction you want this site going? banning people for talking about upcoming films?

whats even more damning is that you must have seen the download yourself and then noted how shit it was. only to come running to Harry

"Harry, the film is shit, the jig is up - no longer can we give ratner hell - what do we do - the word will spread this film is bad. we must quickly post a headline about this film so we can sort of take responcibility and then, hey - we can ban all those fuckers we always wanted to. lets just say "don't talk about the film or we'll ban you"

to which harry replies "Wolverine?"

I get so tired of reading these assholes asking for scripts and then reading said scripts and then telling us about the time they read said script, but then harping on about how we should avoid spoilers because it's apparently for our own good.

Stop being holier than thou assholes and I'll stop pointing out that Beaks is a fucking cock.

so if it sucks after you see it in the cinema, after shelling out £10 or whatever - thats fine? But if you watch it for free and it sucks thats evil?

I'm trying hard to feel sorry for FOX, no wait, no I'm not. Laughing my ass off that's what I'm doing. Laughing VERY hard indeed.

thank you very much FOX for fucking one of my favourite comic characters.thank you rothman.

And I have always wanted to kill the energizer bunny. Seriously. I've been in a few fist fights here and there, but as far as humans go, I've never actually killed one of them or wanted to. Kick someone's ass? Sure but not kill them. That's serious stuff. But I'd like to kill the energizer bunny and then, not kill, but beat the fucking shit out of the guy who came up with that ad campaign. If someone buys me a gift that needs batteries and they get me energizer bunny batteries, I smash the gift over their melon fucking heads immediately. I've been known to burn their houses down too. Die, energizer bunny. Die 1000 times every night in my dreams. I kill you a thousand times in my dreams, energizer bunny. Every night. 1000 times.

I can't wait to watch the 1/2-assed bootleg of this 1/2-assed movie. Deadpool with NO MOUTH??!?!?? That is truly laughable.

I got an idea--lets make the next Wolverine without his claws. And he's a girl. A black girl. Yeah--that's a great idea.

Fuckin' Fox.

And be honest, there is mainly two type of viewer of pirate films; those who were never going to go and see the film at the cinema anyway- they never go to the cinema- and those that will watch the pirate copy but STILL go to the cinema to see the film and STILL buy the DVD when it comes out and then STILL buy the directors cut when that comes out later. Piracy!, I think that the industry knows that little trick inside out.

I'm not one of those negative ahole talkbackers, but Fox has proven they dont give a shit about these properties or their fans beyond the profit margin.

I also don't think that the lack of piracy had anything to do with the creative golden age of the 1970's; I think that you may be looking back a little too kindly on films made during that period. Some were outstanding and creative juices were certainly flowing but the period had its fair share of turkeys- creativity and lack of it can be claimed for just about every definable period of cinema- and there has always been some form of piracy, admittedly not on the scale of that presently (but as someone has already pointed out, hasn't damaged HK cinema). What is destroying creativity though is business- it is taking over all forms of expression, it has nearly killed sport and, although it has been a part of cinema from it's inception, it now has a strangle hold, no, a death grip. The reason that originality is out and repetition is in is that the business just want's to keep on repeating its last success until it has squeezed every last drop of profit out of it, you can hear the cry "it made money last time, why isn't it working now?". The business does use original ideas- it uses them for all they are worth.

Piracy, DVD's Blu-Ray won't kill the cinema, remember when TV was the death knell?, didn't happen. I don't know about the States but The Dark Knight did wonders for Imax attendances here in the UK and I suspect that Cameron's next will drive people back to the cinemas for the sort of experience that they can only get there.

honestly, i reckon Fox leaked this on purpose, write it off, claim insurance, blame the internet and help rupert murdock get one step closer to owning the cyberspace and shutting all of us down in the process.

hahaha. nah im joking. the film is shit. it'll always be shit even when the visuals are finished and the editing tightened. people don't like shit. except those 2 girls with the 1 cup.

I wouldn't have looked for the leak, but Beaks said it was a good idea to look for it.

Nice, AICN, nice...

"Even if you see the workprint you're still going to have to go see it in the theatre to fully experience the full movie with CGI effects fully intact."

(who the fuck are they kidding???)

Give me a fucking break. Try remembering back more than 2 weeks.

I can wait to see Wolverine fighting his brother who looks nothing like Sabertooth from the first X-Men movie. I can wait.

"What are you in for?"

"I downloaded Wolverine illegally just to see it a month early." "Wow. That's pretty hardcore."

"Yeah, pretty cool, huh?" "Oh yeah, most definitely cool. By the way, it looks like you dropped your soap. Aren't you gonna pick it up?"

Yes they are but that has got nothing to do with piracy, it has got to do with whatever they own the copyright to or can buy up cheap and what made them a shed load of money last time. Their problem is not with making money or making enough money but with making MORE money- enough is never enough with these assholes. Piracy does not dent their income a whit worth mentioning, if it actually did they may take the measures that I mentioned above. Many people watch pirated films because they can't view it in their part of the world due to release dates or bans or just lack of interest by the frakkin cinema chain. In my area of the UK The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford did not play, deemed by the two local Showcase's to not have enough of an audience, being a Western and a languid Western at that- so that left the option of piracy until the DVD came out which was then duly purchased. So in this case Warner Bros gained by piracy, I liked it enough to purchase the DVD. I'm sure that there are many stories like that- I know I have several.

Point is that I question just how much money these film companies lose to piracy- I'd like to see their figures but of course it is impossible for them to know for sure (case above) and so any figure they produce is an estimate and would undoubtedly be a biased one. This is purely and simply a case of greed and more importantly it is about control, if they could life their product so that you had to replace it every couple of years, they would (in fact Lucas has run a variation of this with his never ending goddamn iterations of Star Wars).

We live in a world of bread and circuses where reality TV is the newest incarnation of looking at sideshow freaks at the circus- the entertainment industry isn't going bust anytime soon, something has to stop the masses rioting. So don't listen to the bleating of these guys- if there were really any truth in their piratical claims do you really think that they would have to Hollywoodise their anti-piracy message with fear by claiming that anyone, anyone, who purchases an illegal DVD or game or piece of music or downloads such is directly supporting the mafia and child prostitution and the running of drugs?. See, and you said there was no creativity left in Hollywood.

Fucking sellout hypocrite douchebags.

"Cuz I'm Rupert Murdoch, billionaire tyrant, and that's how I roll, yo!"

Hollywood has been staying afloat thanks to comicbook adaptations and to some extent; shitty remakes.Let those fuckers come up with something original for once instead of bitching about piracy (which I don't condone, but if it's free, what the fuck?) as me and my friends shell out our hard earned dollars for Blu ray DVDs and theater releases.

pussies.

Hey FOX! I'm watching WOLVERINE right fucking now! Come and get me!

Leafar, you're a fucking dumbass.

http://www.aintitcool.com/disp lay.cgi?id=12709

And every subtitle reads "FUCK!".

This movie is the Blade3 of the X franchise. I..I just considered it a blessing I didn't waste my money.

PEOPLE. ARE. GOING. TO. BE. PISSED.

And look at them now. What a joke. It seems a crime that good people are losing their jobs in other professions whilst the jokers at the top of the FOX foodchain keep fucking us over again and again.

Wolverine? I wouldn't waste bandwidth on.

this world will be a better place without movie pirates,even if killers,rapists,drug dealers,terrorists,sex slavers,etc are still out there.

not having mr rothman the money to get one more private jet plane,is a very serious crime than killing.go get them fbi.

nobody said that the pirates,WHO SELL the stolen artwork,and not those who share it freely,shouldnt be prosecuted.ofc they must go to jail.

but i ask you,you as an american tax payer,what are the priorities you want the fbi to have in the war against crime?

do u want the fbi to spend its resources,money and people,in order to catch first a movie pirate or do u want to go first and catch a serial rapist,killer,drug dealer,sex slaver etc?

think about it.

ofc not.because as ,always,the majority of the pie,aka money,goes to the rich guys,those who control the economy and own the capitals.

do u know that the golden boys of your bank system,get bonuses while everyday more and more american citizens lose their jobs? why do think mr obama turned agaisnt these bank execs and demanded control of their doings?

a better economy is just numbers and statistics,but at the end of the day,the difference is the guy who owns a ferrari and the guy who hasnt money to eat.

the ford and general motors owners,visited mr obama in order to ask his goverment,to help the american automotor industry,now that there is a world wide economy crisis.

people who work in this industry will lose their jobs etc etc.

they aske from mr obama to lend them money in order to strengthen the car industry.several million dollars i think.

whats the funny thing? they travelled to meet mr obama,the usa president,with their super luxe private air jets.u gotta love the irony of it,right?

does that make me a stupid person for saving my money,or a bad guy who hurts the film industry?

hmmmm

"WHAAHHHH If it fails it should fail on merit of it's quality not piracy WHAHHH!!!!" Nope, fuck you. The studios have made some kind of idiot faustian pact with the American public wherein if the film costs above 100 million and stars a comic book character the public MUST turn out in droves. It's a literally no fail situation for the studio. Well I want that to change, and if it changes, just this ONE time, then good. It couldn't have happened to a more deserving film. If the movie does poorly then maybe we get less X3's and more Irons Man/Dark Knight. If it succeeds we get more crap. There is no fucking way this isn't a good thing and aside from arbitrary moral standards no one has argued otherwise.

"But WHHAHHH all these people worked so hard WHAHHH!!!" Yes they did, but what stands out int he context of time is the quality of the work, not the god damn box office. That is just one tiny part of a films life. Those people still have every ounce of the work they put into it, it's all up there on screen. NOTHING was robbed from them so stop saying otherwise. Oh God forbid they get to see it for free. Well if it's art, and they already got payed, they shouldn't care. The point is people WILL see it, in some form. This isn't some little indie flick that could, it's a massive summer blockbuster, so no one is getting robbed of their recognition.

"WHHHAAHHH the lack of revenue is bad for the film industry WHHAHHHH" Yeah, but what if hte industry doesn't deserve that revenue? So now every film should do well on merit of a bad economy? Horseshit. Just like the downturn will force Ford to stop making shitty cars, some studios should be FORCED to make better pictures, and hot damn if Fox ain't the grandaddy of 'em all. They have it coming all the way around. Besides they WILL make big money on this film. The amount it will dent the box office will be negligible, unless bad word of mouth spread, in which case good riddance. But DVD and toy revenues will more than make up for it. Fox is going to turn a profit no matter what. So just sit back and have a coke and a smile and be happy that you saved some money.

An action/comic book movie like this expects big overseas ticket sales. Piracy will certainly hurt on that front.

As for myself, I walk the talk. I barely see any new Hollywood releases (have yet to see Watchmen or about a dozen other heavily promoted movies on AICN) because I doubt they will be any good. When I want to see a movie and nothing I want to see is playing, I go rent/buy an older one or else I go to the Egyptian, New Beverly or another revival house and see a classic.

Overindulgent, overpaid actors and industry figureheads is also unethical. It just doesn't have the benefit of being legally wrong, and that's the problem with our world.

Cancer, aids, starvation, drugs...what a different world this would be if money wasn't the only thing these idiots care about.

Granted, it's a crime for anyone to leak a print. But if equal weight in punishment is afforded when some unethical suit or "creative" type steals from someone else's script, treatment/synopsis, independently produced/unreleased film or whatever, it would likely have a chilling effect on piracy and benefit the industry as a whole.

Bottom line is that any industry is hurt when individuals who provide a resource do not benefit from their efforts due unethical behavior of others. Just look at the Madoff scandal.

While I sympathize with the little guy when an industry reaches a tipping point and starts to collapse (like the automotive industry) it is hard for me to sympathize with the big fish such as Jim Gianopoulos and the like who are living a life of EXTREME excess (if anyone has been to a Hollywood party you know what I'm getting at) and who will be just fine if the studio he manages falls on hard times.

It just reinforces people's belief that viewing stolen copyrighted material is OK... Especially when FOX puts out press releases judging people who view the video that is streamed online – as if to imply it was the viewers fault that their workprint wasn’t distributed they way they intended.

!SPOILER!

Oh and by the way... the Darth Maul inspired death scene in this load of poop is really half assed. In addition, so is a character getting "pushed" to where they want to jump to by the force of an explosion. That is very gay as well and oh so 90s.

FOX needs to get their heads out of their collective asses.

If they aren't bullshitting about the rumored changes, edits, and extra characterization (especially with Deadpool) they added during reshoots, it could be a good film. But there are some big things they likely couldn't manipulate that were a bit cringe worthy.

If the legit reviews for the final product are positive, I'll pay for to see it again.

In other words, it's a very big deal when someone pirates a whole movie, but barely a voice is raised when the little person's work - treatment, synopsis, script, or independent film (without distribution)- is raided for material by the vultures. It is wrong on both ends but is not treated as such IMHO.

Scoops, film coverage and cool news are a different story entirely. I'm all for a free press, especially internet news.

By having the customer pay after the movie...it holds those that make it accountable...like a great chef. In any restaurant worth going too...If the Food stinks..you complain a few bites into the dish..and you either walk out or get a new plate that is too your liking. ONLY the cinema makes you pay up front for something that may be pure shit, and laughs as you walk out poorer and cheated. 90% of the time when they release a clunker, which is often these days, they know is sucks..they know it will die 2 weeks into its run..and yet they market the shit out of it...get it to recoup its losses on release and hope for DVD sales. They KNOW they are fucking the audience...and they..don't fucking care. Well Fuck them...I'll get my taste from Lime, or Piratebay, or emule...or from some punk Korean kid who stole it somewhere...and if I like it on the laptop..THEN I'll go see it properly in the movie house. But No more will I pay up front to be insulted and cheated like I have been lately...Hollywood...you and me are DONE professionally..Fucking Ass

The artists never made SQUAT from sales to begin with...they make 70% of their income from TOURING, and live performance. So Piracy isn't hurting the artist...it is hurting the Douchebags who sell .50cent wholesale CDs for $14.95. It isn't hurting the producers, the roadies, the session guys, the promotions people or the guy who give Bono his Wheat Grass Enema before the show...it IS however killing the VP and A&R heavy Suits...the guys who tell the artist to "pop" it up and make it accessible to the average retard.

And I say Good riddance...that isn't Capitalism..that is a subsidized monopoly. From now on...the Producer and artist will release direct to the net...probably for free...and once their music is out there and people are demanding more..get down to the business of touring and making their money. All that the Artist and Consumer have done here is what good Capitalists have always done..look for advantage, cut out the middleman(the army of lawyers,A&R guys,and corporate VP's) and let the market decide price and how and when it is too be paid.

And I've been FUCKED one too many times by Hollywood to get teary eyed over some pirate forewarning me away from their latest shit fest. I'm glad this leaked...I'm glad it is being universally picked apart...Why? I just saved $12 and about 2 hours of my life..thats why...If only I'd had this type of warning with Cloverfuck. Color me retarded...but I am not going to get upset that Fox was cheated out of cheating me out of a few bucks to watch their crappy film.

" more than 75,000 copies of the film have already been downloaded ..."

One user wrote on aintitcool.com: "The CGI is missing and the movie looks horrible without it.

Wanker!!Have you frakkin bothered to listen to what most here are commenting on; geeks will download for free, then pay at the fucking cinema and then buy the fucking DVD. So don't set yourself up as standing on some higher moral fucking ground, Beaks.

You're anti-piracy, fine. I'm pro-piracy which, despite your fucking moral snootiness, is also fine; I will do a George Lucas and reiterate that the Music and Film industries lose fuck all revenue from illegal downloads and such. They gain some free marketing dollars from the publicity but they lose nothing. If you know better, Beaks, then quote the fucking figures; I won't be waiting with bated breath.

I'm also very amused that you seem to think that this site still has the power to influence the outcome of box office takings by the power of some negative reviews posted here. Those days are long over as this site has successfully neutered itself in the quest for closer links to the industry and- not that I wish to disillusion you, Beaks,- never existed for your column anyway. Seig Heil!!

You don't want to pay for movies or entertainment? Fine, don't. It is not my job to pass moral judgment on anyone else (womanizing, drug-using drunks with criminal records can't hold the moral high ground) but don't try to pass off your laziness, greed and selfishness as somehow an act of rebellion or rationalize it as somehow noble. It is just stealing. Man up to it and lets move on.

And if Hollywood films continue to be disappointing, than guess what, stop seeing them. But you keep coming back to them like some bizarre love-hate relationship. I have sympathy for a woman who claims she was raped once after walking down a dark alley, but after the twelfth or thirteenth time I say “Stop walking down that alley, you fucking moron!”

the best thing u can do as a consumer,is not buy the products,which the big corporations are selling.

But wait... reality is it's probably complete shite. So who cares? Maybe this will be incentive for them to actually put forth some true creativity in these so-called "blockbusters", so piracy or not the movie will live long after it's release.

And christ, don't they get enough of our money as it is? A freebie every now and then is well earned for most people. I just don't do it cause the quality blows. Either way, it's America motherfuckers!!!

one of the main reasons i stopped reading marvel comics.

I probably wouldn't have watched it in the cinema otherwise to be honest.

I'm not going to download this movie, not out of principle, but because I want to see the complete version. The fact I'm not interested enough to watch in the cinema probably also affects my judgement here but i'll catch it on DVD most likely.

Rebels.

Oh, and E_Nizzle = Cunt.

Schnizzle that Nizzle.

And no, I'm not gay.

That's kinda lame.

Keep your opinions (and insults of FOX) coming!

Yeah - that would be my verdict if I'd seen the film, but obviously I would never download a film like that because piracy infects babies with AIDS.

Your take on information and technology and how it is shrared and the "War on Drugs" nonsense etc. is correct but a complete non sequitur to the morality angle. And I'm not Christian...so the boderline bigoted remark is ALSO a non sequitur because this has to do with morality NOT religion...why would you not include Muslim or Buddhist in that comment or just the word RELIGION? Do you think this is exclusive to Christians? I'm sure plenty of atheists and agnostics may refuse to d-load a movie for ethical reasons don't you?

So what would stop you from shoplifting the Wolverine DVD when it hits store shelves? The much higher probability of you getting caught. Fine. So you do it in the comfort of your own home. There are some people in this world who don't do many FAR worse things simply because they fear getting caught... NOT because of any moral code or values. I don't NOT steal because I may get caught.

At the end of the day it's your choice...it surely is not a major crime. I just don't feel I'm "sticking it to the man" by getting a movie for free that I can rent for 3 bucks which is no sweat of my back.

I read about another story where they settled out of court for the entire life savings of an 19 year old kid (it amounted to just under $8000 he had saved for college) who had illegally dl'd some mp3's.

None of that is something I've got linked so it's possible I'm not remembering it 100% accurate but the info is out there...

That said, I'm not saying piracy is good or even that the industry deserves it...but I will say this...FUCK the industry (RIAA/MPAA). FUCK YOU. You assholes are bereft of creativity and just because you once facilitated the creative media of others does not mean you're fucking owed a thing. And it doesn't mean you're perpetually relevant either! YOU are not artistic and you haven't created dick except more dickless middle-aged puffy robo-sari-men like yourselves. Now you seem to think you deserve more than the artist and more than the fans and basically more than the guy in the sterile office next to you. And holy shit but who are we to think you shouldn't eh?

There's a right way to do things and a legal way...sometimes those ways align...sometimes they don't. These pricks almost always follow the law but they NEVER do the right thing. Not for the creative talent and not for the fans. There are exceptions but the rule is these dicks make the most coin and have most of the power and ZERO artistic talent and ZERO artistic creativity. I realize the process is still necessary but how these overblown, gluttonous "middle men" got to be so intrinsically necessary and so overtly controlling just pisses me off to no end. They artificially control far too much and they offer zero creative input. For that reason alone, I'd morally side with the pirates. As it is, it makes me sad that pirate or not, the one who will always loose out are the ones creating this stuff in the first place. The musicians, the writers, the painters, the artists always loose. Whether we pirate or not. The majority of that reason lies solely at the sticky hands and feet of the RIAA/MPAA machine.

Now, evolving technology looks to make these assclowns obsolete in music but obviously not in movies unless private citizens go back to being major investors (yes, I know this still happens but can you name one big budget flim that had just one or 2 'rich guy/girl' investors lately?).

Sorry to rant but human beings possessed of great talent are the ones who actually define us as a species. Do you think all this technology matters? Money, cars? It's a means to an end. Newer and better ways of doing the same shit we've always been doing. It's nice but not what matters. What matters is what we had to say and the forms in which we said them...in music, art, motion pictures, etc. Not money and not cars and 12 room mansions and offshore accounts. That's fleeting bullshit that only means something to you and those who envy you. When we're all dead and gone what you own means exactly dick; what you create? Well, that's another story!

And the fact that bullshit technology and greedy fuckin devouring blackhole human beings have to get their grubby fucking hands all over shit that, at the end of the day, they just tool from one side of the yard to the other, is frustrating to me. You're obsolete, assholes. You're not really needed and within a generation you'll be not only unneeded but an actual impediment to art and music.

Wake up and smell the smellin salts suzie! And then quietly go fuck yourselves.

For all the exceptional others who keep the artist and the art first and foremost while managing to be honorable facilitators in a stinking shit stew of lecherous asswipes...may you have the eternal blessings of the imagination of all things in the Universe. If only it was you...then in all likelihood piracy, as we know it, wouldn't exist.