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Comment on A personal letter from IPAF by accidentalpirate

accidentalpirate — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:27:56 +0000

Actually, the statistics are that 53% of Australians pirate, and as we mentioned in our blog, 34% (or 1 in 3) Australians are ‘ACCIDENTAL PIRATES’. The research revealed that a third of Australians – 34% – said they see piracy as stealing or theft but they regularly do it by burning, buying or downloading illegal or unauthorized copies of films or TV programs. In other words 1 in 3 Australians participate in something that they don’t agree with. To describe this disconnection between people’s actions and beliefs, we coined the phrase ‘Accidental Pirate’.

Comment on What’s the deal with region codes on DVDs? by SteveJ

SteveJ — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:30:05 +0000

Hi,
I understand your plight, I own a large collection of Dvd’s from various regions. Not one pirated copy amongst them. I must be honest I have become fed up of all this region coding business so much that I decided not to upgrade to Blu-ray. If you buy them legite the you should be able to play them. Do away with region coding then maybe I will invest more. Your punishing your bread and butter public not the pirates.

Comment on Flipside of the debate on piracy by mrpostal

mrpostal — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:30:50 +0000

Attache: You are a giant, unrealistic, douche.

Even if Geordieguy wanted to comment on your post (which, I’d hazard a guess he wouldn’t) he couldn’t.

For someone who seems to profess knowledge of IP, you certainly know bugger all about confidentiality and employee agreements.

Companies have social media policies; and if they don’t, they’re probably even worse in this regard.

*Anything* he posts in relation to talking about the company he works for could land him very easily into not working for that company anymore.

The smart move is to not play your game.

You want Ciscos view on Intellectual Property on their devices in juxtaposition to copyright in the film industry? contact their media wing.

I work for a multinational company that I don’t agree with on a lot of things.

I still need to pay bills, and I have my own damn opinions that sure as hell may not line up with theirs.

Tell me Attache, do your views on everything line up with your employers?

Who is your employer? I mean, after all “in the interests of transparency” we should all know your interests.

*rolleyes*

Comment on A personal letter from IPAF by Anti-accidentalpirate

Anti-accidentalpirate — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:16:36 +0000

Why are you trying to act as though you speak for the industry? Those stats you publish are more than misleading. If you say that 1 in 3 Australians are pirates then how did you come up with 53% in your previous blog.

Shame on you. SHAME!!!!

Comment on Fair price & profit for a DVD? by Brad

Brad — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:44:35 +0000

What about when we pay to see/rent a movie and find that the movie itself is either not worth the money that was paid to see it, or not worth the money paid to see it AND a ripoff of a movie that had already been done? Like Tomorrow when the war began being a very long, drawn out and less well down copy of Red Dawn? I want my money back after seen that.

Comment on Fair price & profit for a DVD? by Brad

Brad — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:26:51 +0000

And an independent source without a vested interest in the results of this research would be where?

Comment on Fair price & profit for a DVD? by accidentalpirate

accidentalpirate — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:57:19 +0000

Thanks for your comment, please refer to the research we conducted in September 2009 for information on the statistics http://ipawareness.com.au/Facts

Comment on Fair price & profit for a DVD? by Brad

Brad — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:55:52 +0000

Can you show me the stats on this “53% of the population pirating”?

It’s the same argument that the music industry harps on about with the dollar amount of lost sales. I’ve yet to see unbiased stats to back this argument up.

Comment on Fair price & profit for a DVD? by Rant, Rot and Ruin

Rant, Rot and Ruin — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:09:00 +0000

I paid full price for the collector’s edition of the District 9 DVD. I was happy to do so.

I was NOT happy to find TEN separate film trailers, PLUS the ever-insulting “YOU WOULDN’T STEAL A HANDBAG!!!111″ spiel. Half of which were un-skippable.

I paid full price, GLADLY, and this was how I was treated.

And you know what was even more insulting? Sitting in the extra-expensive theatre in HOYTS, settling into the leather seats for TRON Legacy…to be greeted by Dan Wyllie’s ten-foot-tall ugly mug.

Stop insulting the people who WANT to pay the money, and maybe more people WILL want to pay you.

Comment on Nothing Beats the Real Thing! by Jriskpy

Jriskpy — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 06:34:45 +0000

Nothing beats the real thing!
except a free audio or video file in the format of your choosing and entirely lacking of digital rights management.