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Re: The MPAA Shows Pirates How It’s Done

Chad W Smith — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:23:17 -0000

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

Re: The MPAA Shows Pirates How It’s Done

thepete — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:19:17 -0000

Chad:

Mashable being annoyed that their intellectual property is being stolen and masqueraded as someone else's is completely different from bootlegging a movie or TV show. When someone does that, they're not turning around and saying "Hey, dude, check out this movie I made, it's called the Sixth Sense and it RAWKS!"

It's one thing to protect your IP when you need every penny you can get AND when someone else is taking credit for your work. It's something else when you're just greedy as hell and can't handle the thought of a handful of people getting your product for free (as if you'd think twice about going with the cheapest source for something you wanted).

Capitalism breeds the urge for the cheapest. Don't blame bootleggers for being smart businessmen. Not that I'd know anything about any of this stuff.

Re: The MPAA Shows Pirates How It’s Done

Kyle — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:31:18 -0000

Oh, and ignore Chad W Smith - he's just a dick.

Re: The MPAA Shows Pirates How It’s Done

Kyle — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:30:27 -0000

Stan, I'm neither attempting to be funny nor am I trolling. I'm trying to get you to improve your work, or give up trying to be a professional writer.

Here's why I *suspected* that MPA wasn't a typo on that site - because I am familiar with the issue and know that the MPA is the international body. Here' how I *knew* it wasn't a typo - because I checked the WHOIS.

Seriously, please stop being so defensive about the comments people are leaving. Be a little more careful in your writing and research (yes, research, try it) and people will be able focus on the content instead.

Re: The MPAA Shows Pirates How It’s Done

Chad W Smith — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:07:45 -0000

You want funny, I'll give you funny. What's "Funny" is that this past weekend, this website had a bitch fit about one of its own crappy stories getting "stolen" by the "theif" and "plagiarists" on a paid content site. They then tore that site a new one for allowing such an atrocity to take place. And, today, when the president of that company responded swiftly, decisively, and appropriately - this Anti-MPAA site, (Mashable) replied to his professional letter by snidely saying "We'll have to wait and see".

So when the MPAA sets out to defend it's Intellectual Property - it's mean, only for money, behind the times, stupid, petty, and wrong. But when Mashable is the one getting content stolen - well, hey, that's dishonest! It's wrong. No one should be making money off of your content but you, right? That's only fair. That's what's right. Pirates are bad... OOPS! I mean Plagiarists are bad. How's that for a typo?

What? You're not laughing yet? Don't you see how funny this is?

Re: The MPAA Shows Pirates How It’s Done

Kyle — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:03:57 -0000

Dear Stan, the MPA is the Motion Picture Association, an international organisation, of which the MPAA is the American branch. That's what the last A stands for. That site is an MPA site, even though the linked docs are MPAA docs.

Maybe you should only write stories about which you are vaguely informed.

Re: The MPAA Shows Pirates How It’s Done

D.W. — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:49:45 -0000

Funny how you blast the MPAA for misspelling it as MPA on the site's title, yet you misspell "intellectual" in the third paragraph.

Oh, Mashable! We're all guilty of typos :)

Seriously, I think MPA is the Motion Picture Association, the worldwide entity, of which the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is a part.

I'm with you on the Web design. Wow, that's the best they can do? Gee, don't overwhelm me or anything.

Re: The MPAA Shows Pirates How It’s Done

Adam Taylor — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:34:09 -0000

deary me..

Re: The MPAA Shows Pirates How It’s Done

john — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:11:24 -0000

This is CRAZY!