• Author: Adriana
• Published: Mar 9th, 2007
• Category: Film, Media, Web/Tech
• Comments: 11

Piracy – market’s way of giving movie industry a finger?

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An industry that treats its markets as enemies and abuses customers is in trouble.

hattip: Head Lemur

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11 Responses to “Piracy – market’s way of giving movie industry a finger?”

1. 
   tom
   on Mar 10th, 2007
   @ 10:30 am: 

   hmmmmmm …. irressponsible to say the least.

   You moan about having 2 minutes of your life wasted – yet you probalby wasted a goo couple of hours making the poster !!!

   thats about 50 or so messages in a DVD.

2. 
   Adriana
   on Mar 10th, 2007
   @ 10:36 am: 

   Irresponsible? Oh dear. Among other things, the main difference is that I choose to blog about this poster as opposed to being forced to watch something by somebody else. It’s not the time but autonomy.

3. 
   tom
   on Mar 10th, 2007
   @ 10:51 am: 

   nobody FORCES you to buy the DVD … you CHOOSE yo buy the DVD … dont like it dont by the DVD !!

   your loss !

4. 
   Adriana
   on Mar 10th, 2007
   @ 10:55 am: 

   Thank you! Precisely! That’s what the poster is about – buying a DVD becomes too annoying, so getting the movie elsewhere is a better option. Glad we agree.

5. 
   tom
   on Mar 10th, 2007
   @ 11:00 am: 

   are you really as thick as you sound ?

   Other sources ARE ILLEGAL !!!! COMPRENDE !!!

   IT IS NOT A BETTER OPTION !! Thats the point of the message ! can you not see that

6. 
   Perry de Havilland
   on Mar 10th, 2007
   @ 11:28 am: 

   For those of you who are terminally hard of thinking (hi Tom), the whole point is that I buy a DVD to see a movie, not to be lectured about the consequences of digital technology and the movie industry’s rapidly decompiling business model.

   Personally I use RegionFreeDVD to skip the un-skippable deeply annoying anti-piracy messages. Now let me send the movie industry an equally unsolicited message:
   Rule One of Marketing – DO NOT PISS OFF YOUR CUSTOMERS.

7. 
   tom
   on Mar 10th, 2007
   @ 12:24 pm: 

   hmmm so you think I’m hard of thinking … riiiiiiiiiggggggggggghhhhhhtttttt !!!!

   I feel I am fighting a loosing battle here. If you realy want to get into the marketing mix discussion then of course I couldroll out the whole 80/20 rule factor.

   Your in a minor minor microscopic minority of irrelevance in the market. FACT! So pissing you off in the grand scheme of things isn’t going to make much of a difference ! And the cold reality of it is the FACT messag on a DVD isn’t in the grand scheme of things going to be that much of a factor in yu decision making process when deciding wheter or not to purchase that Sex in the City box set. As a law abiding citizin I suspect that the reality is you dont see these ‘other’ channels as viable long term soltuons – so you’ll do the right thing and buy the disc.

   The fact there is software that allows you to do this is great – and really if its there then I dont see the problem.

   The fact is its about education – and there are folks out there who are still unaware that buying hookie DVD’s or downloading from a bittorrent is illegal. It is these people who the message isintended for !

   Ultimately whos to blame here. Is it realy the movie industry ? they’ve just reascted to a problem – are the real purportraitors here not the pirates using this makret as a means to fund drugs and human traffiking ????

   To be fair, I doubt your qualified to comment on the business model of the movie industry, and yes it is changing but to say its decompiling is somthing of an exadgeration. Yes its changing, I’ll give you that – but its isnt reacitng with the aggresion of the RIA etc. THey are looking at other distribution models and you will see these changes over the coming years.

   I guess my point is this. Your stab at fact is unfair. They are a not-for-profit organsiation funded by the industry its self which tries to takle this growing problem head on. They have a immensly difficult job, and cheap stabs such as yours dont help.

   Your intitled to your opinions – personaly I think they are misguided and narrow minded but I doubt theres much I can say to change that

8. 
   Perry de Havilland
   on Mar 11th, 2007
   @ 3:56 am: 

   The reason you are hard of thinking is that this actually has NOTHING to do with piracy. It is about people who DO by the damn DVD being pissed off by their time being wasted by a threat from the people they have given money that is designed to be hard for you to avoid. THAT is what is actually being discussed.

   “Your in a minor minor microscopic minority of irrelevance in the market. FACT!”

   In that case, why all the lame messages? If they are not aimed at the digital generation, then who are they aimed at?

   “As a law abiding citizin I suspect that the reality is you dont see these ‘other’ channels as viable long term soltuons – so you’ll do the right thing and buy the disc.”

   Actually I am not a ‘citizen’ (I refuse to vote, for example) and moreover I try to only obey laws that make sense. As more than 50% of homes in many First World countries now have broadband, if you think the old delivery models are not doomed, you are truly kidding yourself (you are of course far from alone however). However it still all comes down to the more you annoy people, the less they are inclined to accommodate your needs over their needs.

   “are the real purportraitors here not the pirates using this makret as a means to fund drugs and human traffiking ????”

   Yeah right, people upload movies to BitTorrent in order to fund drugs and human trafficking… and that works how exactly? Pirate DVDs are really not the threat to the old model, it is digital delivery, and this fact just makes the idiotic threats by the studios even more preposterous and intolerable.

   “To be fair, I doubt your qualified to comment on the business model of the movie industry”

   Well lets see, I’ve been tangentially involved with promoting a Hollywood movie and know several Real Hollywood Movie People(tm). Is that enough? Or are you Steve Spielberg commenting under a pseudonym?

   “personaly I think they are misguided and narrow minded but I doubt theres much I can say to change that”

   And that would be because I do not buy the propaganda pumped out by Old Media and I dislike people trying to force me to watch their ‘messages’ when all I want to do is watch the damn movie I paid for? Sure, clearly sign of a narrow mind.

9. 
   KamelToe
   on Mar 15th, 2007
   @ 4:38 am: 

   Always One, isn’t there…

10. 
    Ken
    on Mar 21st, 2007
    @ 22:06 pm: 

    Christ on a bike! It’s nice to see that the dark cloud of terminal stupidity is still raining all over the internet. Anybody who, in their right mind, thinks that these FACT ads are anything but an unfair annoyance to law-abiding movie watchers needs their heads checked.

11. 
    rob
    on Feb 25th, 2008
    @ 9:55 am: 

    Bang on the money – not even a skip option, enforced read our message crap, drives me nuts too, well said that man!