Comments for "Who Stole Superman? -- A "60 Minutes" on Video Piracy (1979)" Video at VideoSift.com

By youdiejoe

youdiejoe (http://youdiejoe.videosift.com) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:27:38 -0800

"...the FBI tells us it is not about to spend money prosecuting individuals recording for their own use at home, but when a dollar changes hands, they want to know about it"

By Kreegath

Kreegath (http://www.videosift.com/member/Kreegath) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:01:16 -0800

Seriously, what's the point trying to enforce a rule that nobody agrees with and everybody regularly breaks? Isn't that the definition of a toothless law?
I especially like how one of the guy the interview in one sentence says that nobody knows how much business they're losing and follows that up with an estimate of over 100 million dollars. That estimate is based on the idea that if piracy didn't exist they'd sell one film for every pirated movie there is. But I ask you, how likely is that estimate? Who can honestly say they would have purchased every movie they'd ever recorded/bought/borrowed if the piracy law had been successfully enforced?
Actually, many argue that the opposite is true of what this video says. If people see something they like they buy it, and if they've seen stuff they like from one source they're more likely to buy new the new stuff that source produces, it's not like people stop collecting films because they're available online.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:53:02 -0800

Moving this video to ant's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

By doogle

doogle (http://www.videosift.com/member/doogle) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:00:36 -0700

*deadeadeadeadeadeadead

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:00:37 -0700

Only published videos may be flagged dead - ignoring dead request by doogle.

By poolcleaner

poolcleaner (http://www.videosift.com/member/poolcleaner) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:51:28 -0700

New location of part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSfghe_B6Y4
New location of part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j_C0yR21ZQ

By laura

laura (http://laura.videosift.com) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:33:47 -0700

yo, it's dead ant!

By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://rottenseed.videosift.com) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:44:57 -0700

hahaha if only they knew how much easier it would get...

By Trancecoach

Trancecoach (http://www.videosift.com/member/Trancecoach) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:40:28 -0700

The movie makers still haven't figured it out. Their economic model died a long time ago.

But then, Hollywood itself was founded by pirates who moved to California to avoid having to pay Edison a licensing fee for using his film-projection technology.

Some things never change.

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:07:34 -0700

>> ^laura:
yo, it's dead ant!

Fixed.