ICE Uses Seized Domains for Best Anti-Piracy Video Ever
Found on Wired on Tuesday, 26 April 2011
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau is hoping to lay a little guilt on movie downloaders by dramatizing the stark human toll BitTorrent inflicts on Hollywood boom mic operators... or something.
The public service address shows a peddler on a New York street giving away free movies he said were downloaded from the internet. Beside him stands a soon-to-be unemployed worker. "What's more important," he asks, "the movie or this human being?"
Best? No, for the worst video. It's so ridiculous I don't even know where to start. Bascially, the feds from ICE whine in the name of the entertainment industry about changing times. If you apply their logic to the past, we would not have that evil horseless carriage which put thousands of coachment and carriage manufacturers out of business. We would not have dials on our phones, which killed the jobs of the operators. We would not have electric light because it negatively affected the gas light industry. How many people lost their job because the movie industry replaced VHS with DVD? Times change, their business model does not. Now it is their time to die; and I won't shed a tear. Not to mention that seizing those domains is more than just questionable.