Scarlett's Stuff

May 26

movies i’m excited to see
↳ the bourne legacy (summer 2012)

Apr 1

Jan 25

“

Because of Edison’s patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North American east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent. There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them - like Fantasia, one of Disney’s biggest hits ever.

So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: “stole”) other peoples creative works, without paying for it. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they’re all successful and most of the studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations - it’s all based on being able to re-use other peoples creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create. If you want to get something released, you have to abide to their rules. The ones they created after circumventing other peoples rules.

The reason they are always complaining about “pirates” today is simple. We’ve done what they did. We circumvented the rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow people to have direct communication between each other, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases takeover 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them). It’s all based on the fact that we’re competition. We’ve proven that their existence in their current form is no longer needed. We’re just better than they are.

” from The Pirate Bay’s press release regarding SOPA and PIPA (via davidfinchers)

(via lovingremixed)

Jan 22

Reblog if you legally purchased something BECAUSE you saw it on YouTube or downloaded it.

watertightvines:

And without the so-called piracy, you would never have discovered or gotten into it to begin with.

(via suchcharminglives)

Jan 19

oldstarnewshine:

how to cut down on an enormous chunk of illegal downloading, and this is so absurdly simple that it boggles the mind:

make your show / movie / whatever accessible online.

put ads on it so you can make money off of it, or sell a subscription to a competitive streaming service like netflix.

make it available

everywhere, meaning the country of origin and everywhere else

as soon as it airs (tv shows) / becomes legally available to purchase (films &cet). not a week and a half later, not three days later, not the next morning. as soon as. people who are savvy about internet downloading and things are generally going to be the sort of people who hang out online and want to talk about their favorite shows as soon as they happen with their friends who are in that timezone/country. you’ll cut down on a shitton of downloading if you just make things available legally faster.

square yourselves with the idea that in this age of high definition and internet streaming that seeing a film in a cinema is a premium service and should not be relied upon as a primary method of distribution.