Hollywood's Greatest Threat?

Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Hollywood Battles Internet Companies To Protect Itself From Piracy Creative America, a group launched over the summer to support Hollywood's anti-piracy campaign, recently released a video explaining that thousands of jobs and billions of dollars are lost because of online piracy of movies, music and television. In the video, writer and producer Bruce Leddy shares his experience of piracy of his independent film "Wedding Weekend," the costs of which he was hoping to cover through DVD sales. "Literally, the day the film was released on DVD, I got four emails.. saying, 'Watch the Wedding Weekend here for free'.. And I could click on that link, and my movie would start instantly. These sites.. are making money. I didn't. I lost my money. It makes you angry, embarrassed, frustrated because there's not recourse. I can't call up bit torrent and say, 'Hey, that's my movie! Stop giving it away!'" UPDATE: LA Takes A Stand Against Corporate Personhood.. And WINS! 'I'm A Genius. I Piggybacked Onto The Great Norman Lear' Why Occupy LA Is Taking Over Foreclosed Homes Alleged 'Secret Sex' Revealed By Source What Should You Do If A 300-Pound Naked Bodybuilder Attacks? BLOG POSTS Ridley Scott: The Only Way to See a Film It has never made sense to me that those preoccupied with how movies are delivered have for years written off "physical media" as "dead" even though the evidence shows it isn't happening and won't for years to come. Bill Bush: Paradise Notwithstanding: This Artweek.LA (December 5-11, 2011) Doug Moore: Public or Private: Unemployment Hurts the Economy When Newt Gingrich proposed that students take over cleaning our schools, he was rightly denounced for wanting to eliminate child labor laws. But not a word has been said about the low-wage janitors who would lose their jobs. Christopher Meeks: Connections, Electrical and Otherwise My family lives close to Pasadena, where we recently experienced great winds. We had no electricity. We suddenly had time on our hands, time that wasn't filled in the usual way with our devices. Just being with each other was great. Joel John Roberts: Homeless College Students Should Not Be Encountering These Real Life Tests It seems to me that anyone who studies hard enough in high school to be accepted into college should also have the right to have a safe place to live while in college.

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