Indian Politicians Caught Watching Unauthorized Copy Of Film About Politics
from the obscurity-or-piracy? dept
Apparently there's a popular political thriller movie that recently was released in India, called Politics (or Raajneeti). It's doing quite well, but apparently a group of actual politicians from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wanted to watch the movie and didn't want to go to a theater to do so. So they had a recent screening for dozens of elected officials from the party at a hotel. Of course, since the movie wasn't available on DVD or elsewhere besides movie theaters, apparently they found an unauthorized copy elsewhere. The only reason this got out was due to news reports on the screening, and the director of the movie is upset, though he admits that if they had just asked him for a copy of the movie he would have given it to them for free.This raises two points. First, it's always amusing to me to see politicians, who often are among the most sanctimonious when it comes to the supposed importance of copyright law, quite frequently feel no need to obey copyright law themselves. Second, it seems like the director of the movie is overreacting -- perhaps in an attempt to get more publicity for the movie. If he admits that he would have handed over a free copy anyway, what is he complaining about? He didn't "lose" anything. In fact, he saved time and effort by not having to approve this and not having to send out a copy of the movie. This way, it was actually a lot more efficient.
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for me, its just another massive mike reach. if it was in the white house in washington, he might have a story. that it happened in india isnt exactly news.
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The director
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After all, things like this happen all the time in the UK, and you've always found a way to weasel around those.
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And do I notice a bit of xenophobia/racism in your remarks?
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Yes, in case you didn't notice, bad stuff happens in your neighborhood too. Your country is just as screwed up as any other. You don't live in some special place where everything is fine. I suggest you open your eyes and look around you. I also suggest you pay attention to what happens in the rest of the world, because that world mirrors your own and your world mirrors theirs. You don't live alone out here...
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One, two, three...
5 comments in to charge to the defense, to take the opposite side of the argument from usual (because THIS one is DIFFERENT!)
10 comments in to the strawman.
Definitely on pace for ShillTard of the Year.
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it isnt racial or racist, it is about a country, it's laws, and it legal systems, not a people. the only one being racist here is you. i take it as another attempt to shout down my ideas, and it borders on tasteless and moronic. i would figure mike would hire smarter people to do the job.
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Weird. Considering that India has, in just the past few years, signed on to new treaties and passed new patent and copyright laws to align its IP laws with the US... none of what you state above appears to be true.
What happened to you? You used to actually make a legitimate point. These days, it seems like you just make stuff up.
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"What happened to you? You used to actually make a legitimate point. These days, it seems like you just make stuff up." - your standard answer, "you lie". at least you are learning to use nicer words when you want to discredit someone without addressing the issues.
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India is against ACTA, but joined TRIPS, so I'm not sure what your point is. The fact that it doesn't like one treaty, but signed on for the much, much bigger one pretty clearly proves that you were wrong. Either that or you don't seem to know your history (perhaps a more likely story) and you pretend that you know all of Indian IP law history based on one thing that happened in the last month.
your standard answer
Funny that you don't actually defend yourself here. You just retort with an insult. Seriously. If you have a point to make, make it. But stop with posting blatantly factually incorrect stuff. It's a waste of everyone's time. I have no problem with you representing yourself as the loyal opposition. But, you're discrediting that position by posting things that are blatantly false and uninformed. Step up.
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And you lie. All the damn time. It's all you ever do, and it will never change. Your entire existence is based around creating baseless memes about Techdirt you can endlessly repeat so as to never deal with the facts of any issue that's ever presented. Your entire presence revolves around essentially nothing except feeble attempts at trolling and misrepresentation.
Until you actually make a point worth considering, peoples attitude and posts towards you will never change. But you won't, because that's not why you're here.
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I suggest you go live in one of these countries for a year - on a median local wage before you start knocking them.
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I must have missed that part where an agreement occurred.
Last I heard, ACTA was still being negotiated in secret.
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Having read the article, I thought the issue was availability.
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"you pretend that you know all of Indian IP law history based on one thing that happened in the last month" - not true, and you know it. would you care to explain for the class india's history of respecting patents and copyright, particularly in the fields of pharma and street corner movie sales?
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FTFY
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Piracy is widespread everywhere. Not just in India or China.
"b)some countries are actively trying to get out of agreements like acta because it would force them to deal with that ongoing situations.
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1: Like somebody else pointed out, ACTA has not been enacted yet.
2: Other countries don't have to enact stupid laws just to make your county (actually, the content industry) happy.
"it isnt racial or racist, it is about a country, it's laws, and it legal systems, not a people."
It might not be racist, but it certainly is discrimination. What you did was something in the lines of:
News Headline: "Italian mob boss arrested today."
You: "Pff. Another one. Is this still news? We all know Italians are gangsters."
"the only one being racist here is you. i take it as another attempt to shout down my ideas, and it borders on tasteless and moronic. i would figure mike would hire smarter people to do the job."
I did not discriminate anyone. I even pointed out that the world does not revolve around you or anyone. We are all human beings. We all screw up.
Oh and I think Mike doesn't need to hire anyone to give you an intelectual beating. Most people will do it for free.
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the story is a nice piece of "gotchya" politics, but it comes from a country where piracy is wide spread, and where the government has aided and abetted local drug manufacting companies to ignore patents and copyrights from around the world. my only point in the end is that this story would be much more revealing if it happened in a country with stricter application of copyright and patent law, say like the uk. if lord mendelson had been caught doing this, it might be a better story, no?
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it DOES happen in the UK (and everywhere else). the fact that this article is about a country where piracy may be *more* prevelant is neither here nor there. im sure a fly-on-the-wall at a vast amount of UK or US politicians houses/offices would show that they are as guilty of potentially infringing someones copyrights as anyone else out there. they just have the power to shrug it off and treat us all like the criminals.
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if you want to make racist comments, that is up to you, but please dont try to attribute to me what is not at all true. if you see racism in my comments, perhaps it is you who is racist to be thinking about it.
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PLEASE SAVE US FROM OUR GOVERNMENT, THEY ARE THE MOST THICK SKINNNED AND INSENSTIVIE MOST CORRUPT AND SHAMELESS.
ONLY ONE AGENDA OF THE GOVERMENT - TO LOOT THE PUBLIC AND THE COUNTRY.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SAVE US FROM THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT.
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