Svar framleiðanda "The Hurt Locker" við tölvupósti

[Tiger]

He he he hérna fyrir neðan er smá saga um einhvern dúdd sem sendi framleiðanda The Hurt Locker bréf um að honum þætti það ómannúðlegt að fara í mál við alla sem hafa downlodað myndinni, hvasst svar og mjög beitt miðað við hversu hátt settur hann er.

A producer for "The Hurt Locker" goes postal after a Boing Boing reader questioned the need for a massive lawsuit against pirates

Last week, we detailed a story involving piracy and the movie “The Hurt Locker”. Due to heavy piracy of the movie – even before it was even released in theaters – the producers decided to take the fight to pirates. According to reports, the producers are prepared to sue thousands of pirates and it has the backing of 75 percent of ISPs in the United States.

Now, however, the situation is starting to heat up a bit. A Boing Boing reader sent Nicolas Chartier, President of Voltage Pictures (producers of “The Hurt Locker”), an email expressing his distaste with the fact that his company was going after pirates with a lawsuit. "I wish to register my disagreement with these tactics, and would like you to know that as a result of these actions I am boycotting your films. The majority of the people you are suing were not seeking to make money from their downloads," explained the reader. "While it is completely understandable that Voltage Pictures wishes to defend its intellectual property, this is an inhumane way of doing so."

While we're unsure if the Boing Boing reader expected to actually hear back from Chartier, we're quite certain that he didn't expect to receive the over-the-top email response. Chartier responded, and he struck down with great vengeance and furious anger:

Hi Nicholas, please feel free to leave your house open every time you go out and please tell your family to do so, please invite people in the streets to come in and take things from you, not to make money out of it by reselling it but just to use it for themselves and help themselves. If you think it's normal they take my work for free, I'm sure you will give away all your furniture and possessions and your family will do the same. I can also send you my bank account information since apparently you work for free and your family too so since you have so much money you should give it away... I actually like to pay my employees, my family, my bank for their work and like to get paid for my work. I'm glad you're a moron who believes stealing is right. I hope your family and your kids end up in jail one day for stealing so maybe they can be taught the difference. Until then, keep being stupid, you're doing that very well. And please do not download, rent, or pay for my movies, I actually like smart and more important HONEST people to watch my films.

Chartier definitely got his point across, but it should be interesting to see how the pirates respond to such attacks.

[Orri]

Haha, einhver ætti að senda gæjanum þetta:

[jagermeister]

got owned?

[BjarkiB]

Gæti allveg ímyndað mér mörg þúsund manns í dómshúsinu

[SteiniP]

pfff... þetta var ekki einu sinni góð mynd

[Skari]

Tel nú að þetta muni hafa slæm áhrif á kvikmyndageirann ef það á að stoppa allt download.. Þessir stóru aðilar eiga jú enþá eftir að raka inn gulli en þetta mun pottþétt hafa verri áhrif á þessa litlu sem hafa ekki mikið milli handanna til að auglýsa myndina.

The Man from Earth er ein af þessum myndum, ekki fræðilegur möguleiki að hún væri eins vinsæl ef það væri ekki fyrir niðurhal.

Heimskingjar sem halda að hvert download er tapaður peningur.

[Frost]

Það er mjög mikið af fólki sem að niðurhalar myndum og kaupir þær svo ef að þeim finnst þær góðar. Ég gerði það með leiki, prófaði þá og svo kaupa þá. Það væri eins og SteiniP segir slæmt fyrir kvikmyndaiðnaðinn ef að download væri bannað. Það væri ekkert af þessum myndum eins frægar ef að download væri bannað og ekki heldur jafnmargir búnir að sjá þær og íhuga að kaupa þær.

[intenz]

Hahaha einn geðveikt bitur! Harðort svar frá honum.

[GrimurD]

Úff mér þætti gaman að svara honum, svo týpískt Hollywood rusl svar sem hann kom með. Sýnir alveg hvað þeir hugsa þetta kolvitlaust.

[intenz]

Úff mér þætti gaman að svara honum, svo týpískt Hollywood rusl svar sem hann kom með. Sýnir alveg hvað þeir hugsa þetta kolvitlaust.

Go for it.