Bittorrent is the devil
May 22nd, 2005So, the MPAA has seen fit to accuse the BitTorrent protocol of eating away at the launch-day earnings of Star Wars Episode III.
I am sure George Lucas is collecting all of his food stamps and lining up at the local welfare office following such a blatent robbery of his small-time earner. The movie only made ~$50 million or so… IN ONE FREAKING DAY! Surely BitTorrent is to blame for such poor earnings.
The consipracy theories abound, but I think one Slashdotter put it best:
I believe it was BitTorrent on the Grassy Knoll. BitTorrent also touched those boys at Michael Jackson’s pad.
This is like blaming Boeing for destroying the World Trade Center.
BitTorrent be damned.
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May 26th, 2005 at 4:30 am
This is getting to be so typical of the media and business analysts when it comes to many situations. It’s just like the people who sue McDonald’s for their obesity or when Wal-Mart is upset that Target is getting some footing in the business world. You simply can’t always blame others for your problems. Most of those problems, like in the McDonald’s cases, are self-inflicted. Or as in the case of this BitTorrent issue, it’s, well, a non-issue.
A complete exaggeration. So some idiot has gone and gained two hundred extra pounds of his own accord; so what! So some big company or big-time producer hasn’t made a million more dollars due to filesharing; so what!
God, some people just need to be shot. Right in the forehead.