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Stolen Movies MAKE Money for Film Studios

Posted on December 5, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 0 Comments

Movie Piracy and Stealing Movies is Good for Movie Studios

Stealing and Piracy of Movies is Good for Movie Studios

One of the world’s most successful venture capitalists and two music big-shots have gotten behind piracy. Now, as odd as it might sound, there’s (a little bit of) proof that piracy may actually help movie studios make money.

Despite Fred Wilson, Neil Young, and Elvis Costello all coming out in favor of media piracy, stealing movies and music is still . . . well . . . stealing. And forget legal nuances distinguishing copying from theft; if you take something from someone else without paying for it and you know you were supposed to pay, you’re stealing. ... READ MORE of Stolen Movies MAKE Money for Film Studios at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (410 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Influency, Media

Carpathia: MegaUpload’s Smart/Evil Hosting Partner

Posted on January 31, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 5 Comments

This is a story about customer service. Or maybe it’s about file sharing, copyright infringement, due process, and piracy.

Or maybe it’s just about being very, very careful with the way you store your data.

On February 2, 2012, Carpathia, the company that was hosting data for MegaUpload before their very large collection of information was taken off-line by a United States Justice Department action,  will be free to delete MegaUpload’s data.

And oh boy, are you glad you aren’t the folks at Carpathia who have to decide whether or not to do that. ... READ MORE of Carpathia: MegaUpload’s Smart/Evil Hosting Partner at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (815 words, estimated 3:16 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content, Customer Service, Media

More on BitTorrent, SOPA, Piracy and File Sharing—and SEO

Posted on January 23, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 8 Comments

BitTorrent and SOPA (or SOPA and BitTorrent)

When I told you about YouHaveDownloaded.com in this story about the marketing genius that is comedian Louis CK a few weeks back, I didn’t realize we’d be getting to pick on the United States Congress. Turns out that our friends in Washington DC, the very folks who though SOPA was such a great idea, have been illegally downloading copyrighted works from the Internet using BitTorrent.

Shocker. ... READ MORE of More on BitTorrent, SOPA, Piracy and File Sharing—and SEO at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (465 words, 1 image, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content, Media, Search Engine Optimization SEO

MegaUpload, BitTorrent, SOPA, File Sharing, Piracy, and You

Posted on January 20, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 9 Comments

Except for the time that The US Congress Endorsed the Services We Provide at Virtual VIP, I’ve been pretty clear on just how ill-prepared our government is to address business change and the Internet.

Chalk up another one for the dumb guys.

In shutting down widely popular (and wide purveyor of pirated material) web site MegaUpload yesterday, The US Congress has, once again, deprived a company of due process because they had written law (or in this case granted unreasonable powers to the US Department of Justice) without understanding what they were doing. ... READ MORE of MegaUpload, BitTorrent, SOPA, File Sharing, Piracy, and You at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (785 words, estimated 3:08 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content, Media

What If A Studio WANTED You To Pirate Their Movies?

Posted on March 23, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 6 Comments

Hey! I Got Something For You. Come Over Here … Just a Little Closer …

Here’s where the GOTCHA! usually comes in, right? Bogie man jumps out and grabs you. You’re thrown into the back of a panel truck, never to be seen again. A movie studio sues you into oblivion.

You may still want to stay away from shady characters in trench coats offering candy, but last week the specter of the big bad litigious movie studio got a little bit less scary. Paramount has decided to give away The Tunnel, for free, over the Internet, using BitTorrent file sharing software. ... READ MORE of What If A Studio WANTED You To Pirate Their Movies? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (721 words, estimated 2:53 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

In Australia, Movie Piracy is now A Bit More Legal

Posted on February 4, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 5 Comments

Ah, to be Australian. Lower population density, plenty of beautiful places, great weather much of the year, and now a little bit more freedom to use the Internet to download movies illegally.

Hey! And Nicole Kidman is in Moulin Rougue!

OK, so that wasn’t her finest work, and not a great film, but many people disagree with me and at this very moment are trading little pieces of the film across the Internet. Which is illegal. But the Internet is such a wild and flexible place that the question of what exactly is illegal and who’s responsible has gone almost nowhere despite repeated efforts to create an answer. Today, a court ruling in Australia made things a little more clear. Or less. Or, if you don’t live there, had no impact at all. ... READ MORE of In Australia, Movie Piracy is now A Bit More Legal at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (504 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Content

Pirates, BitTorrent, and How You (Might?) Be a Thief

Posted on August 17, 2009 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 8 Comments

Have you stolen a movie today? What about music? Or maybe you’ve just exchanged some really large files with your co-workers.

The last one is legal. The first two, by simple inclusion of the word “stolen”, are not.

This is about to get heavy, my maybe-a-thieving-pirate-torrent-criminal friends, so you might like to read this before we go any further.

Ready? Here goes: ... READ MORE of Pirates, BitTorrent, and How You (Might?) Be a Thief at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change




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