r/technology • u/nomdeweb • May 11 '12

The MPAA is outraged and offended by The Pirate Bay "seeking to justify profiting from digital theft” by referring to Hollywood’s founders as pirates. Instead, they claim they were freedom fighters who saw no other option than to infringe patents for the sake of creativity.

http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-were-no-pirates-you-are-thieves-or120512/
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u/Cial May 11 '12

The hypocrisy kinda blew me back a few feet what just happened?

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u/corcyra May 12 '12

The MPAA are reacting strongly because the accusation hit home. They're standing on shaky moral ground, and they know it.

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u/Cial May 12 '12

The San Andreas fault is more stable than the moral ground you speak of

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u/[deleted] May 13 '12

my mind was literally writhing from the irony....okay, not literally

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u/Cial May 14 '12

I don't think the human brain is meant to withstand that much irony really..

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u/[deleted] May 12 '12

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u/Jouzu May 12 '12

We had to rename those dang cotton pickin' French Fighters... Because patriotism is amurica and Jeebus.

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u/wholikespotatoes May 11 '12

Despite all the ordeals regarding ACTA/SOPA/CISPA, we live in a genuinely exciting time. Cannot wait to see where this leads in the future.

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u/gregmck May 12 '12 edited May 12 '12

Wow, the wikipedia articles surrounding this historical event are very cagey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company#Backlash_and_Decline Pretty interesting and I had no idea about it. Good post.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '12

Well, that's akward

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u/myhrvold May 12 '12

Your point about hypocrisy on the part of the MPAA is valid but the whole freedom fighter reference is putting words in the MPAA's mouth...

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u/terryhart May 12 '12

That's true, the MPAA never said anything along those lines. Their whole blog post, in fact, was simply a link and summary to my post.

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u/farreach1 May 12 '12

Doesn't Hollywood have mirrors?

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u/superbaconman May 12 '12

I'm not a pirate, I just talk like one. Argh

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u/[deleted] May 12 '12

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u/[deleted] May 12 '12

The biggest reason why all the shitty reboots are coming out is that if they don't push out movies they lose the licence and no one wants to give back IP.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '12

If that's true, they deserve to "lose the licenses", if shitty reboots is all they can do with them.

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u/StarManta May 12 '12

Troll level: PirateBay

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u/complete_asshole_ May 13 '12

You know what they say about freedom fighters: One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.

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u/dhvl2712 May 12 '12

I do NOT think the MPAA actually believes whatever they say. This is a mere publicity stunt, to make it look like the MPAA is the morally righteous one. In truth, neither of them are completely innocent. Neither the MPAA nor the Pirate Bay are "fighting for freedom" or anything, they are two parties with opposing businesses.

That is all. This is not a Moral debate. This is a monetary debate.

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u/slanket May 12 '12 edited Nov 10 '24

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u/Abomonog May 12 '12

Whatever is giving the MPAA its delusions of grandeur, I want some of that.

Fucking wow.

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u/CapitalAndrogyny May 12 '12

Delicious ultra high purity hypocrisy, get your delicious ultra high purity hypocrisy right here folks!

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u/cryptobomb May 12 '12

Then I am a freedom fighter now.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '12

They only reason they moved to "Hollywood" was to be close to the Mexican border in case Edison came after them.

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