Hurt Locker producers suing "Tens of Thousands" of downloaders.

[Hitman]

I've only ever downloaded 1 movie before about 2 years ago. I don't download much nowadays in fact, I even PAID for a genuine AVG licence!

[Misawa]

The Hurt Locker was released theatrically in the UK and is now on DVD and Blu-ray...

[Swastika]

Surely they cant get EVERY single user in the US that downloaded it?

[Jordy]

Much much worse.

Other companies are doing the same thing.

Oh, and getting caught is VERY easy when using torrent programs. You share your IP with everyone currently uploading /downloading a torrent file you're downloading. Most companies have people that make note of these IPs by uploading a copy of their movie.

Tl;dr: Torrents aren't safe, use rapidshare.

Also Misawa, what's your stance on downloading it in the UK? Surely since it hasn't been released here and as far as I know, is never going to be, it's perfectly acceptable to download it?

Yeah it's definitely been released in the UK.

These lawsuits will make a lot of people stop downloading, of course it won't stop everyone pirating but I think it'll serve as a decent deterrent and punishment. Movie + Game companies are the harshest when it comes to illegal downloading.

[Niall!]

The Hurt Locker was released theatrically in the UK and is now on DVD and Blu-ray...

Hmm, I appear to be misinformed.

[Black_Apalachi]

Much much worse.

Other companies are doing the same thing.

Oh, and getting caught is VERY easy when using torrent programs. You share your IP with everyone currently uploading /downloading a torrent file you're downloading. Most companies have people that make note of these IPs by uploading a copy of their movie.

Tl;dr: Torrents aren't safe, use rapidshare.

Also Misawa, what's your stance on downloading it in the UK? Surely since it hasn't been released here and as far as I know, is never going to be, it's perfectly acceptable to download it?

How safe is Rapidshare in terms of viruses though? With torrent sites you can at least check out the comments etc left by others.

[Niall!]

How safe is Rapidshare in terms of viruses though? With torrent sites you can at least check out the comments etc left by others.

Safe enough if you know where to look.

[Browney]

They will be forced to pay big money or go to prison.

My response: good.

MISAWA. I'M FREAKING OUT HERE. I AGREE WITH YOU. ARGH!

Make films cheaper? Where do you expect them to get the money from? Expect special effects and general quality to be going backwards in which case.

[Neil]

To be honest I don't blame the tens of thousands that downloaded it, it's like £8 to go and see a movie in the cinema, £5 if you go on tuesdays, they're lucky enough to get the £5 I'm willing to pay to sit down for an hour and a half to be honest, sure I love movies and I wish to be a part of creating them but even I would understand why people are illegally downloading them, most forms of entertainment aren't even worth the money you pay half the time, I'm willing to pay £40 for a video game because a video game can get me upwards of 24 hours of entertainment in total, some cases even offer more but then you have movies and CDs selling at like £15 new, each often only lasting an hour or so at most, I generally aim to purchase the movies, music and TV shows I watch because you have to pay but generally I try get them when they're down at low prices because I don't agree with the prices of them, if I made a movie like The Hurt Locker which could guarantee me millions of buyers I would skip the cinema and just put it straight to DVD at a reasonable price, the entertainment industry is a greedy place and the only part of it I fully encourage is the video games section purely because of the value for money.

[Stephen]

I doubt they will do much. They are probably just trying to scare people tbh.

Oh and in reply to above........ INB4 MISAWA