Archive for December, 2011

Movie producers have every right to file lawsuits against those people who illegally download their movies over the internet. After all, they have invested every single kind of effort to make these movies possible so it is just right that they get every dime from them as well.

However, one can never really force people to take the time of day and pay a couple of bucks to go to see a movie or wait for the DVDs or the Blu-ray to come out especially when there is a choice to download it and be able to keep it, watch it as many times, anytime and anywhere a person could want. It is not a move that the law would be pleased about for sure but billions of people do it so it is very likely for majority of the people to get away with it.

Movie producers as well as the people responsible for the anti-piracy law take it a step further by tracing the IP addresses of these people who download movies illegally and do the proceedings from there. People who have been proven to be guilty of piracy are usually asked to pay fines from which the amounts depend on how much pirated materials are seen to their possession and could also be likely to be sent to jail.

Like mentioned, these movie producers have every right to file lawsuits against these illegal downloaders but it is another thing when these small time producers who supposedly file these lawsuits in the hopes of achieving justice apparently are just doing these to gather money from these illegal downloaders who are mostly teenagers who barely know or maybe even have no idea how badly these illegal downloading could cost them.