Porn Maker Sues 7,000+ For Copyright Infringement 374
This summer, we discussed news that the producers of The Hurt Locker had sued 5,000 people for sharing the movie over BitTorrent. Reader suraj.sun writes with word that a porn company is now following suit, filing a complaint targeting 7,098 people for illegally sharing one of their films. Quoting:
"Axel Braun Productions filed the complaint Friday in US District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, alleging that the defendants illegally shared the adult film Batman XXX: A Porn Parody. The film was written and directed by Axel Braun and distributed by Vivid Entertainment, one of the country's best known porn studios. ... '**** 'em all,' Braun told Xbiz. 'People don't realize that when you pirate a movie it hurts all of the people who work very hard to get it produced — from the cast to the production assistants to the makeup artists. So we are going after every one of them who pirates our content.'"
Re:Intellectual Property (Score:1, Informative)
It actually doesn't look all bad (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDbj1X2V7eM
From the trailer, the costumes and the acting, may actually be above the 1960s TV Batman which it is clearly patterned after.
Re:Piracy does NOT equal loss of life. (Score:3, Informative)
Yeah well, piracy as downloading and piracy as selling illegal copies are two different things. Downloading does not benefit anyone else but the downloader. I'm all against selling pirated stuff.
Re:It actually doesn't look all bad (Score:3, Informative)
These trailers are higher quality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD0YQoAqmrU [youtube.com]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0t0u1ofiv0 [youtube.com]
Re:Wait... what? (Score:2, Informative)
Obviously, you're not a connoisseur of porn. You've been jerking off to plotless clips, but you're completely unaware of the vast universe of porn with plot. Go forth and explore this new world which has been opened unto you, like a giant pussy.
Re:download does NOT equal loss of sale (Score:3, Informative)
Can we say that not every download is a loss of sale, but some losses of sale can be attributed to downloading?
Yes, and some gains in sales from the added recognition and exposure from downloads being available.
How these two weigh up each other or not is matter of the current debate.
Re:Havent seen it. Let me go Download it... (Score:5, Informative)
The reason porn can be sold at all is be cause it is protected by the First Amendment. If it was not protected, then it couldn't be sold to anyone. The fact that it cannot be sold to minors is due to a specific exception to said free speech statutes. In fact, a recent case even suggests that the mere appearance of depicting minors, when they are in fact adults, may be protected as well: (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._California [wikipedia.org])
Re:Havent seen it. Let me go Download it... (Score:3, Informative)
Jefferson (Score:4, Informative)
"Separation of Church and State" does not appear anywhere in the Constitution. It is a phrase coined by Thomas Jefferson.
Absolutely right.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
Now, go promote one religion in government without stepping on several others. Can't do it, can you? You will ALWAYS upset some group if you go down that road.
So, Jefferson clarified the establishment clause with the term "Separation of Church and State". Big deal, it's what the end result has to be or you wind up with a huge mess.
Re:Justifying piracy. (Score:2, Informative)
Actually I stole it (sorry, COPYRIGHT INFRINGED IT) from this guy, but he doesn't post it enough and it's way too insightful to not show everyone.
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1274139&cid=28382071 [slashdot.org]
Re:Usual defender fallacy (Score:2, Informative)
Yes, it does. It has a US-centric view of everything, 'cause most slashdotters are from there. When otherwise intelligent people start arguing for their gun rights, frantically posting links to wikipedia and quoting the U.S. constitution, I am able to step back and realise how the rest of the world views our discussions.