LG's TV Manual Shows TVs With Pirated Movies

Hehe lets see the MPAA try to sue LG now, MPAA will get their ass hand it to them.

Boom. Headshot!

They could have at least pirated better movies.

Sorry but this doesn't mean illegal copies. Just means they ripped a dvd they had in their possession to make it easier to access

Um, if you own the movies aren't you allowed to have one digital copy?

A bit too late I was, thank you though! I am not the only idiot who knows this stuff

It's just like ripping music. Why does everything have to be blown out of proportion. This is just laziness if you ask me.

Dude, both The Incredibles and The Aviator are awesome movies. What the hell have you been watching lately to make you so jaded?

Never heard of Apple, though. That one may suck.

it is inevitable. apple sucks.

Yes and Yes. However this has not stopped the RIAA or the MPAA from suing. They both have sued people who ended up fighting them and won. One instance was a guy who actually had the purchased dvd's and apparently made backups to a media server to stream them to his T.V.. MPAA sued saying they downloaded the material from him shows he was illegal pirating the movies. The other from way back was when some old lady was sued by the RIAA saying she was using, I think it was Limewire or something similiar, to download mp3's but they lost cause she owned an Mac and at least at the time Limewire or whatever it was did not work on a Mac.

So make no mistake they will sue regardless. It is not about whether you have the right it is about them making sure they retain distribution control and as a result the profits from it, at least for in their eyes.

If the movies were decrypted in the US, that would be illegal due to the DMCA (no comment on the !@#$ congressmen who agreed to pass that one). Good thing for LG they aren't HQ'ed in the US.

Scarecrow72 :
"Sorry but this doesn't mean illegal copies. Just means they ripped a dvd they had in their possession to make it easier to access"

Your so right, 'cuz when I rip my own movies I like to put REPACK in the filename to let me know I must have done it before and let's not forget CiM... the initials to who??

Yea cause someone ripping at home has to use the term REPACK, that is a torrent term plus bypassing the encryption on a DVD, even if it is to make a digital copy for yourself, is considered illegal (as stupid as that is). Also CiM is a torrent uploader

Wow we had pretty much same response 4 sec apart

I was thinking the same thing while reading!

I suggested having USB ports in TV's and Stereo systems a few years ago and my friends laughed at the thought.

Actually, the tags on the movies, while admittedly could have been created by anyone are ubiquitously used on torrent sites to describe the manner the torrent was created.... The REPACK tag strongly hints at this coming from a torrent site.

The MPAA and RIAA almost never pursue individuals for possessing pirated digital copies of films or music - it's simply not worth their while. What does happen is all that time you're downloading over p2p, the same media is being uploaded to countless other people, and this counts as distribution, its a similar analogy to the difference between caught with a gram of cocaine in your pocket or a kilo in your suitcase.

The MPAA and RIAA will pursue each uploading infringement as a case of copyright violation and hence if you download ten films and have up to 50-100 peers that's maybe 1000 infringements - at $10,000 a go you can see how the $0.25m fines mount up and hit the headlines. If anything many of the fines are extremely leniant and I dont think any 'home-sharer' has been hit for the full amount.

you all suck !!!

Legally, no. Not since DMCA was passed in 1996. Duplication of any digital media even for backup/personal use is prohibited.

Dupilication of analog media is still allowed for backup/personal use.

it does mean its a pirate yes as avatar isnt out on dvd yet so its a screener or cam is it not ?

lol its aviator not avatar

roflmao!

I don't even like the term "piracy"...it sounds dark and negative, I prefer the term "sharing" because that's exactly what it is. Most movies I've downloaded I already paid to see at the movies (and paid handsomely if you count the transportation costs to and from, the pop-corn/drinks, and the movie ticket), so we have the moral right to share the movie afterwards!

This will go well with the copy of avatar that I found in 720p.

Who says you can't download it from someone else? As long as you own it your golden, this is plastered all over distribution sites especially for MAME.

Lol no. You don't have the rights to share the movie afterwards.

Beat me to it! I'll say it anyway, "It's The Aviator NOT Avatar! Cretin!"

avatar what a waste of time its crap.

Personally, Operating System developers should be held accountable for this nonsense. It was their implementation of the copy and paste commands. They should be fined for every file downloaded/transfered/ripped that the big boys deem illegal. And that's all I have to say about this.

To those that say "well what if they made their own files from movies they own?" Two things are at work here: The DMCA prohibits you from decrypting the DVDs you own since the decryption process itself is a violation. So, making a copy other than an exact duplicate is a legal grey area. Second, they show one of the movies tagged with 'CiM' (a ripping group) which means the TV owner either downloaded this file from a torrent, or they are the ones ripping the movies under the CiM moniker. Either way, a bit of a no-no.

That could be any movie with the a feature film title. This shows nothing.