I know that I’m not the only one getting tired of the whining by the movie industry, screaming about piracy and inventing new ways to lock down their product so that the average consumer can’t make heads or tails of it and can’t just sit back and watch a movie anymore with being fingerprinted and giving DNA samples and keeping one eye on the door lest the movie police burst in.
So, it’s worth pointing out that the ever fearful movie moguls, so scared of pirates, have pirates to blame for the latest event to knock a hole in their arguments about losing money to pirates — enough pirates talk for you? Arrrrr.
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” pulled aboard $55.5 million on Friday — the highest single-day pillage ever — and cleaned up over the weekend with an estimated $132 million in ticket sales, another all-time record.
This is not just a lot of money, it’s an all time record. For an industry that claims it is about to go under because of all the piracy. Long story short: they are earning far more now than they ever were in the era before VCRs, before DVDs, and before digital technology and the internet made it easier to pirate movies. Think about it. What’s all the whining about? How childish.
The whining is about greed.
I was thinkig the same thing this afternoon while downloading an illegal copy of “Motherload”
He he, snort- just kiddin’.