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Can Orble Please BAN this person with all the illegal movie downloads!!!

November 23rd 2009 09:41
: STOP THIS STUPID CRIME ON ORBLE
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To be honest this is starting to piss me off.

Movie Piracy


I in NO WAY support the illegal downloading of movies, it is ruining an industry and yet every few days I log on I find an entire page of new posts of the links to visit to download these said "illegal" downloads. There are plenty of places to obtain them - is it necessary for Orble to become one of them?

Movie piracy is sometimes just the tip of the iceberg. Evidence exists that movie piracy is linked to other criminal activity affecting local communities throughout Australia.

With well over 1000% profit margins DVD piracy can be more profitable than drug trafficking. DVD pirates are not merely a product of market forces and entrepreneurship, central to their business model is criminal behavior extending beyond copyright theft. Money laundering, protection rackets, and even violent territorial warfare are all practices not uncommon to piracy business operations.

The latest anti piracy campaign appears in cinemas, on DVDs and in DVD rental and retail stores nationally, challenging Australians to consider "what are you really burning?" before they burn, buy or download pirated films.

With the Australian film industry losing over $230m yearly, and illegal DVD's almost equalling legal copies in circulation (47m vs 52m), film and TV piracy poses a real threat to our economy, jobs and the future of our films.

Movie making is a risky business with only 4 out of 10 movies ever recouping their initial investment. Like every business, the industry relies on its profits to invest in future products. The revenue lost from piracy means there is less investment money available. Less money means fewer films are financed, which means fewer jobs are created, and there are fewer films for us to see.

There are a growing number of industry voices including those of George Miller, Clayton Jacobson, Phillip Noyce, Joel Edgerton and Margaret Pomeranz speaking out against film and TV piracy and its negative impact on Australia and Australians.

"Some of our best films often take 10 years to get off the ground," says Dr Miller. "It is too easy to burn it. It only takes a few minutes to burn a film and that work is lost."

"Piracy basically robs the work of incredibly hardworking and talented people in the film industry and if we don't do something about it, a precious thing will be lost."

"For people like me, it's okay, I'm successful, I'm doing okay. But for every one person like me, like the people on "Happy Feet", there are 900 other people who worked on a film like that whose work is being ripped off. It makes it harder for them to get a job next time."

To report Movie Piracy - visit www.afact.com.au - where most of this information is directly copied from!

Orble - PLEASE PUT AN END TO SUPPORTING THIS CRIME ON THIS SITE
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Comment by Bryn

November 24th 2009 04:28
Jason, Jon is doing as much as he can, but this person(s) simply pops up again in a new guise ... I've already brought his attention to it several times of late ... Jon certainly doesn't support this kind of criminal behaviour. Have you emailed Jon yourself? There seems there is not a lot he can do, otherwise he would have stemmed it by now, don't you think?

Comment by Morgan Bell

November 24th 2009 12:30
oh im so out of the loop, ive been studying and one by one all my blogs became inactive and now there is PIRATES on Orble haha

you can buy non-pirate dvds from JBhifi for $6 these days, hardly seems necessary to use all your bandwidth downloading shonky copies

oh and ive missed so many of your reviews . . . i really need to crack that whip and get back into the swing of things

Comment by Jason King

November 24th 2009 18:45
Yay Morgan - it's about time you got back on Orble!!

I thought you had abandoned us.

Yes - we have pirates and it's sssssoooooo annoying - I want them to walk the plank!

Comment by Bryn

November 24th 2009 21:36
Jason, walking the plank is too kind ... they should be keel-hauled!

Comment by Morgan Bell

November 25th 2009 04:59
yeah they should be whipped by Adam Lambert at the AMAs

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