Since when does sony give a crap? lol they are only worried about their own asses, plus the really small independent companies who dont have an international audience are probably gona put it up for free viewing somewere to start up those audiences... not that many people think about paying for and indie movie from some place, someone who no ones ever heard of...

Sony is not the only one making movies. Get over it.

Not like anyone wants to watch this movie anyway.

The industry that made a movie based on the Dukes of Hazard and is working on one based on The A-Team is wondering where the profits went? I'm thinking that 1 in 3 movies is not even worth the time to download, let alone pay $20 to see in a theater ($20 does not include cost of drinks and popcorn or $7 candy bars)

LOL!

Sony's just angry that they can't add rootkits to camcorders.. yet.

A better statistic to show the alleged decline of movie production would be the dollars spent on movie production, not the number of movies produced. A lower number of titles does not necessarily mean a lower amount of money spent. And also, the rise in video games also has a huge impact on movie sales, don't forget about that little statistic.

It sucks that I know that's true... but I still can't help it. =]

While piracy is a problem we shouldn't be mislead here. Sony is looking out for Sony, not the small film maker. The internet can help small film makers succeed where they wouldn't have before. Just look at what the internet has done for Red Vs Blue! Rather than evolve and find a new way to make money, Sony is mostly just complaining here.

First off....I'm not in favor of pirating anything but......

Why does Sony and other think that the people pirating the movie would actually go and pay for it? If you are willing to watch a cam, chances are you WOULD NOT pay for it in a theater. To those that have 1000's of songs....Would you have that many if you had to pay for each one? NO!!

Again, I'm not making a case for Pirating, I'm just pointing out that there may actually be very little revenue that is lost because many of the pirated files, just wouldn't be paid for.

I've always wondered, is there not a technology that theaters could deploy that would not interfere with a person watching a movie, but would saturate a video camera or in some way render the image useless, especially with CCD based cameras? I'm sure that a great deal of pirating goes on by some of the theater operators themselves, but it would remove the crappy shaky cam budget jobs from taking place.

mikemiller7 said it best. The people who are willing to watch a cam version of a movie are certainly not the types who are going to pay 8-20 dollars to watch a movie in a theater. This is just another example of the movie/music industry grossly overinflating the impact of piracy on their sales figures, when the reality is that the economic depression which deeply affected most developed countries is far more likely the cause of the reduced number of films made.

Look, I paid for Wolverine despite the fact I knew it was available to download. Lots of people did. Hollywood-type need to stop harping on how many fewer Porsches will be in the driveway and concentrate on how many ARE...

Sony's comment is blatantly single sided; they forget that nowadays people buy more and more gaming consoles, including the Wii, PS3, Xbox360, Nintendo DS, etc, and PC's; these games have been seling more and more, becoming more and more realistic; I've just read a study from Jon Peddie Research that says that from the second to the third trimester, there has been the largest increse in NINE years un graphic cards sales - 120 million beating the former record of 111 million from the third semester of 2008. - Graphics cards are becoming cheaper, more people are buying them and playing games.

People are also spending more time online, in social networks such as facebook, and also twitting, blogging, in second life, etc, sending more and more sms, playing games on their iPhones, and Nokias and whatever.

Sony has to get over it: the day still only has 24 hours and people are having more stuff to spend their leisure time on. Start making games. Oh, wait, you do, you just started with an onverpriced console with a CPU that's hard to program on, Wii and Xbox are only now starting to be at your reach. Well, don't complain so much, adapt. Lowering the price and releasing a slim version was a good starting point.

"...to the theater instead"

-Well lets see..
2 tickets $10 each (Ripoff)
1 bucket of popcorn $7 (Ripoff)
2 large pops $5 each (Ripoff)
Total $37 for a night at the movies.
OR
$2.99 to rent a movie on the playstation
($4.99 at blockbuster)
2 $1 pops
$5 for 2 large buckets of popcorn from blockbuster
Total $14 for a night at home in a comfy couch with surround sound and a big screen TV.

What the hell would you expect? I stop going to movies a while back. Mostly cause now I have surround sound and a big HDTV. PLUS it's WAAAAYY cheaper!

If these dolts at Sony ever saw a cammed movie, they'd know the background chatter's nearly always in Russian, so the comment about releasing in the states being the problem is patently stupid.

Most theater companies pay a bonus for catching people trying to record movies, like a month's pay for someone earning minimum wage.

I don't know, I haven't watched one in a long time. None of the new releases are all that compelling, and when they are, I kinda like IMAX if I don't want to wait on the DVD release.

I think Sony makes a good point, we are all really in sad moral delema, I as we speek, have utorrent getting me the entire Miley Cyrus collection. To think i could of went to the store and spent a good 30-40 bucks......

Pixar doesn't have this problem. How about you make movies people want to see?

They can blame pirating, but that's not true. It's supply and demand. Make good movies, and people will pay to see them. People spend a set amount of money on entertainment, regardless of the season. If your company doesn't entertain, they spend that money elsewhere.

Pirating Miley Cyrus is not a crime... it is a condition that requires immediate psychiatric intervention.

it is really bad. I don't even want to post my silly efforts on you tube. imagine making a career out of movie making...I hope they come up with something. how hard could it be to stop piracy?

Maybe, like every other business out there, start spending money wisely and stop overpaying people to show in a movie. Give them a cut of the money, not pay them 1-10 million per movie. Or episode for some of the so called better actors.

I'm sorry, but why on earth can they complain about how pirates destroy them but never consider lowering prices, reducing costs, lowering too high salaries.

We have seen enough garbage movies. It's not even worth my time to download them. Stop making junk and blame it on pirates. A lot of movies people just don't even download anymore.

And a A-team movie without any of the 4 original A-team members is a fail. Don't start with it. Or better yet, even with the original members, don't waste your money. Just put the old eps back on a dvd and sell those. People love to watch those, new a team eps and new A-team movies aren't what we are waiting for.

If we're being honest, there's no way to say piracy isn't theft. That being said, I personally believe there's a difference between movie/software/music piracy & the theft of a tangible item. For example, I'm guilty of downloading the occasional movie or two, however in every instance the movies I've downloaded were movies I had no intention of spending money on in the theater. To further this point I can honestly say there have been instances where the movie I've downloaded actually appeared better than I expected which prompted me to either go see it on the big screen, or purchase the DVD, when I would not have done either before hand. On a side note, I work in the technical support field, from what I see the percentage of end users with the knowledge of peer-to-peer networking at the torrent level is quite minuet when compared to the movie audience. Perhaps the real problem plaguing the movie industry is originality... They have none!

Sell me the movie from day one over download distribution to watch as many times whenever I want to in my home. Then we'll talk. Stop bitching Sony, and adapt to what and how people want their entertainment. This releasing in theaters, then waiting, then releasing to pay per view, then rental distribution, then DVD/BlueRay sales is a ridiculous model in todays time and you need to get over yourselves and the movies you make. Which quite frankly are too often crap or bad rehashes of old show/movie ideas. Explore new ways to sell your content and you will prosper. More and more people have the ability to play their own content in their own homes at just as good as an experience as they can distinguish by themselves. More and more techies are creating their own home theater and venture out seldom to watch a blockbuster on the big screen...

The era of the movie theater is dead (as we know it) and I believe that movie theaters should adapt to be more interactive entertainment experiences than just sitting down to a flick for ridiculous prices. Ahhh experiences like Alamo Drafthouse make me want to see a movie, thank god I have them in Austin. Give me a good meal, a higher experience, an experience I can have without yelling kids and teenagers making out in every corner.

Stop complaining what everyone is doing to you Sony and do something about it like making our time worth giving you our money. Give up your old ways and embrace the 21st Century. Something has got to give and unfortunately for you piracy is not your problem, you not listening to your consumer is your problem. Lots of other companies are figuring this out. Make it not worth the effort to pirate your content and nobody will.

Piracy rises as the object in question over costs its consumer. Simple as that, stop over pricing and trying to control the use of your product and people will gladly buy it.

Stop making shit movies
????
Profit

RIP Sony Movies, go QQ somewhere else.

Let see ware to start. First why pay up only to be disappointed with another crappy snuff film that is produced cheaply or poorly composed and directed. Second many movies these days have soft propaganda and politically correct themes that are degrading to the quality of society. But who cares people of today are like that of Rome during the gladiators who cheer for violence and other themes. Like the music snuffwood with films does not make good movies for the exception of a few since the 90s.

Stop paying actors outrageous amounts of money and you will have a lot more money to spend. Does anyone else find it very wrong that someone pretending to be a scientist in a movie makes 100x more money than an actual scientist?

*cough* http://torrentfreak.com/sony-ceo-p [...] ed-091027/ *cough*

Before movies where spread through the internet it where the people who where ripped off!
They went to their movie place (when rentals wheren't there yet), payed a premium of ~$20 per movie on VHS or so, to a movie that they could only judge by it's cover.
In the '80's many movies where created that where absolutely terrible in any way!
No plot, no story, no build up of emotions, crappy effects, etc...
And many felt cheated on, often throwing away those old movies whom they had payed lots of money to!

Thanks to the spreading of movies via the internet, the international market went up.
Lots of movies that people never would buy, or even hear of, now they can purchase!

I've seen only few real good movies, I'm not a Hollywood fan!
But there have been some which I would have never found if it wasn't for someone who had seen a pirated version of someone!

Thanks to piracy I own about 200 DVD's purchased, which I'm glad I purchased!
Some I purchased on VHS, and later on DVD!
Some got corrupted over time, and I could redownload the movie agian!
Some of them, I've seen 7 times!
Such movies deserve to be purchased!
But in order to find those 200 good DVD's, I had to wade through about 1,5TB of video's; whereof at least 50% I never finished watching, or would never even pay a cent to!

Too many movies aren't worth their price!
And looking it in the cinema's isn't fun anymore, because the airco is too high, the rooms smell, and the sound is too sharp,while missing the fidelity of the sound.
I often end up sitting pretty close to the screen, that I can see the pixels from where I sit, and at times the sound is too loud!
Like this, I find my home theater with simple 2.1 system much better, in the comfort of my bedroom, snacks that don't cost $20 for a bag of popcorn, but $2 and some minutes spend popping them and pouring flavor on them!
And plenty of Coke from the fridge for $5, instead of paying $15 for a small cup!

Why is it when a company bitches about people stealing there product people bash that company. Now i'm not a huge sony fan but if you download a movie and dont pay for it... good or bad its stealing.

If somebody breaks into your car or house and takes something thats yours shitte or not.. your going to be bull shit.. right?

Stealing is stealing no matter what reason you have for doing it.

Michael Jackson is dead and piracy actually help distribute the movie content world wide, which increases the likely hood of independent movie to get noticed by the big guys. Works in the music business all the time.