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[BryanCouperthwaite]

Awesome

[Soundjudgment]

From the Internet to the MPAA: "Awwwww, poor you!"

[ChristopherStSauveur]

movie industry
u can offer blu ray quality movies via digital download without all the compression

or u can complain that the turd movie u made didnt make 100 millon cus of pirates not the bad script or acting or director

[mike6875]

When are they going quit blaming everybody else for their problems?
SOLVE YOUR OWN DAM PROBLEMS.

[justchris2010]

I say Google better get to my area real soon

[mjd420nova]

I think that a faster internet connection does open the door to downloading movie/music because it doesn't busy up the machine for a long period of time. I'm sure not going to download a movie that takes two hours to download a 90 minute movie. This is where those who have real broadband (above ten MBPS) access need to protect and secure their routers. I only have 3 MBPS on a DSL but the guy across the street has an unsecured router on Comcast with over 18 MBPS. I could connect to his router and download that 90 minute movie in under twenty minutes. I'm sure this is happening all over the place and for the real pirate, they'll sit in their car around the corner and the owner's the one who'll get the blame. This applies to any number of nefarious crimes conducted over the web from terrorist communication to passing along stolen credit card numbers and PIN numbers. The pirates know they can't hide what their doing but if they can't be traced to an eventual arrest, police and enforcment agencies are stymied.

[srcharp]

Wow now we can hit our data caps in 24 hrs

[TheTess]

srcharp, on 04 May 2012 - 10:30 AM, said:

Wow now we can hit our data caps in 24 hrs

LMAO! Good point I am sure nobody as thought of yet

In regards to the story...
So now the MPAA wants to control internet speeds? HOW are they going to blackmail/ punish other countries for high internet speeds?
I mean they already use the DOJ, ICE,FBI,and Homeland Security to do there dirty work and without PROOF, how are they going to control this?

They can't. No amount of money in the world will ever give them this kind of power. US the taxpayers will make sure if it!


To the MPAA & RIAA, from us meaning the users of the internet worldwide... your days and crooked ways are numbered!

[mike6875]

srcharp, on 04 May 2012 - 10:30 AM, said:

Wow now we can hit our data caps in 24 hrs

Thought I read somewhere NO data caps from Google.

[kronoscornelius]

Content producers should worry but not because of piracy. I think we are overdue for a media revolution. You already have sites like twit and Comedian Luis CK that completely bypass old-media and sell directly to consumers. There is also Google play and Amazon that provide a marketplace for content producers and content consumers.
This will make any single art product less profitable as a mass consumption product and consumers will move toward many content niches, each of which is profitable enough. No longer will a Music or Movie Institution equivalent to the Vatican will be telling consumers what they should be hearing/watching.

[qwertytechj2yc]

MPAA, get lost. The general public doesn't like you messing with their internet.

[DanielMC]

I take it none you live in Kansas City? Eye-patches abound.

[ethicalfan]

ISPs, search engines and internet advertising networks are making billions on stolen content and breaking the law everyday. 61% of all upload traffic on the internet in north america is used to steal music, movies, software books and video games (sandvine). ISPs, internet ad networks and search engines get paid - content creators get nothing but declining revenues. Home video down 25%, music down 50%, cable down 5 quarters in a row.

[JustinKraft]

Having lived in south Korea for two years and enjoyed 100M fiber. After the first two months my drives were full and I ran out of stuff to download. The speed test to the server in seoul was 98M down and 56M up all with no monthly data cap and all for $40 per month. It was nice streaming a 1080 vid off of YouTube. Having faster Internet does change the way you use content. People in Korea would just download higher quality movies or buy them on the streets 3 for 10 bucks but they were lower quality. All the movie industry needs to do to increase their sales is allow people to download the movies cheaply the day that they come out. Everybody should boycott the theaters and send a message to them. Get a better business model.

[Markkf9z]

mike6875, on 04 May 2012 - 12:39 PM, said:

srcharp, on 04 May 2012 - 10:30 AM, said:

Wow now we can hit our data caps in 24 hrs

Thought I read somewhere NO data caps from Google.

For now, but there was no fees for Paypal originally and no data caps on AT&T either.

I don't see that lasting long. I don't mind a data caps so long as it's reasonable. If a speed of X will allow you to download Y amount, than a data cap should be based on your speed ability. Not the same data cap for everyone

[Extremist]

People will pirate even on 56k dial-up. Napster, anyone?