News Hollywood is Trying to Break the Internet

Sony is backing a proposal to allow dns blocking or simply the wiping out of dns records of internet piracy sites.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/16/...e-at-dns-records-piracy-sopa-leaked-documents

 

hollywood still fighting the inevitable instead of accepting reality and adapting. sounds like the same strategy we've been applying on offense with similar results.

 

@red55 will probably approve. He hates free music

 

he hates stealing. unless its from rich conservatives.

 

see, i got this.

 

Meanwhile, their executives have zero discretion and they want the media to stop reporting on the hacking of company records and emails.


Did they defend Donald Sterling after he got exposed?

 

so is pirate bay gone?

 

Not yet. Only if they pass the law allowing the nameserver to delete their end records

 

I like a big money effects driven blockbusters every now and again. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is an example of a good one. The piracy costs to the studios are significant . They spend 200 million to make a movie, and another 200 million to market it only to lose a sizable chunk of the foreign box office and a sliver of the domestic box office to piracy. They are not going to continue pumping 400 million into a productions. They can't afford to take the hit, and the shareholders won't allow it at some point. They have to fight piracy, and if you want to see pop corn action flicks with lots of explosions you should want them to fight it.