OK… maybe I should have refrained from posting my snotty comment about the irony of telling someone to buy a movie featuring people attempting to destroy capitalism. It obviously wasn’t an argument - just as if I’d used the same argument to defend a terrorist blowing up the studio that produced it. (They’re complaining? They made a movie about people blowing up buildings). One more time… I was being facetious. Fight Club deserves the same protection from copyright laws that a movie based on, say, Atlas Shrugged would.
First, RedDart wasn’t complaining. Second, since you’re so concerned about rules, you might like to remember that we limit personal insults such as ‘jackholes’ to the pit…
and, third, I agree. Artists we like should be compensated for the work that they produce. But someone must do the compensating. And if you can’t afford to compensate them, I don’t think anyone is any better off by you not owning the film.
For instance, I have a moderate mp3 collection, and a vast CD collection. I couldn’t hope to own the CD of every single song I have on my computer, so I download what I at present cannot afford. If I was a kazillionare and I had entire albums sitting on my hard drive, then yes, I would be an arsehole. And if RexDart is sitting on a couple of million dollars and can’t even be bothered to buy a movie he enjoys, then I can’t support that either.
But most of us don’t have the money to experience all the art we would like. So we must compensate.
And lastly, I’m still amazed that you value the rights of whatever studio owns Fight Club so much that you would demand to random people on the internet that they go purchase the movie. That is what I found most curious of all.
[Puffs on pipe]
It’s elementary my dear Tara Tarkas,
Why would anyone prefer to see a film in AVI format if they own the DVD with all of the supliments goodies? If they did in fact own the DVD they would have seen the frames the first time viewing not the 4th as it is much more obvious on the DVD and mentioned on one of teh several commentary tracks.
On top of that no collector worth his salt would ever lose that particular DVD.
Hence Our friend here is indeed the filthy pirate we are looking for.
It’s Elementary
[/Puffs on pipe]
Of course he did miss the point of the movie entirely so he could very well have misplaced this treasure prefering to watch a dub instead.
Nonsense! If you’re well off enough to own “a vast CD collection” you’re well off to pay for all your music. Why not sell some of your old CDs to buy new ones? If your music is that important to you, why not eat ramen for every meal? Why not move into a cheaper apartment?
The point is that you have the power to choose how you spend your money. You want more CDs than you’re willing to pay for, so you choose to pirate them instead.
No, probably like me he cares about the rights of intellectual property holders in general.
HBO/Showtime/TMC paid the studios for the right to broadcast the movie. You, in turn, hopefully paid the movie channels to view the movie and copy it for personal use (time-shifting, archiving, etc). When and if the movie makes it to broadcast TV, it will be the advertisers ultimately footing the bill for your viewing pleasure. In both scenarios, money gets back to the studios and hopefully the artists who created the film.
IN NO WAY are you given the right to redistribute the movie - for free or otherwise. This is all pointed out very clearly in the FBI warning (well, one of the FBI warnings on the Fight Club DVD) displayed before every DVD starts. Thus, when a person rips a DVD to their hard drive and then makes it available for others to download over the internet, they’re breaking the law. This is the same as if you made copies of your VHS movies and set up a stand in your font yard giving them all away.
There’s also marquees for The People vs. Larry Flynt and The Wings of the Dove, so while it’s an intruiging theory (that he built his alter ego on Brad Pitt), it’s really more of an in-joke, in my opinion.
That makes eleven rolleyes in this thread. I bet the green guy’s eyes are rolling into his skull. Anyway, filesharing talk is a no-no on the Dope. I an altruistic way, I am confident that Chuck would rather have people steal his book to read it than not read it at all. And yes, Tyler pops in around 6 times. Search for easter eggs in Fight Club online and you’ll find a list.