CT pirates....

SaucyRossy · January 17, 2008, 12:43:55 PM

Apparently there is some one and maybe more than one but it seems like the same person going around to any blog and website that mentions CT and posting AS Joel Hodgson and posting a link to a torrent for CT.

So what is the deal? Why is one person going out there way to spread the torrent? Something seems odd. Sure I can imagine CT would be pirated but some one is going out of their way to make it known and widely available. Going so far as to impersonate Joel and post on sites with the LINK!

I personally think this is a conspiracy. Sure laugh at me all you want for saying that but it stinks to high heaven......

MrTorso · January 17, 2008, 02:19:08 PM

I wonder if it is one of those MST3K bootleggers that were posting on the CT forum the other day. That one enema bag was blatantly talking about booting the Oozing Skull and selling it for $75 for people overseas...

SaucyRossy · January 17, 2008, 02:21:10 PM

Quote from: MrTorso on January 17, 2008, 02:19:08 PM
I wonder if it is one of those MST3K bootleggers that were posting on the CT forum the other day. That one enema bag was blatantly talking about booting the Oozing Skull and selling it for $75 for people overseas...

Yeah he is horrible. And I saw on the CT forum that he even uses your Rifftrax DVD covers??!?!?! What a tool bag.

MrTorso · January 17, 2008, 02:35:43 PM

Quote from: SaucyRossy on January 17, 2008, 02:21:10 PM

Yeah he is horrible. And I saw on the CT forum that he even uses your Rifftrax DVD covers??!?!?! What a tool bag.

Yeah he sells a disc with MST3K cover art and now it has RiffTrax stuff. When I e-mailed him once, not identifying myself and asked for a sample of the RiffTrax stuff I got a cover from Gammer and one of my DVD labels. Not sure if he has my actual DVD covers on there or not. Hell at the time if he had asked me I probably would have made a deal with him just so I could get some episodes I need.

torgosPizza · January 17, 2008, 02:48:08 PM

Quote from: MrTorso on January 17, 2008, 02:35:43 PM
... I got a cover from Gammer and one of my DVD labels....

It's people like these who are driving the DRM movement. Ripping and sharing the copyrighted content, AS WELL as the free, fan-made content? The situation has reached a new low.

RoninFox · January 17, 2008, 02:51:02 PM

I have nothing really to add to this discussion except damn these people are asses. I wonder if these CT copies will still include the message screen at the beginning that gently discourages piracy.

Bob · January 17, 2008, 03:08:57 PM

Some people really do need a good beating.

skenderberg · January 17, 2008, 07:09:21 PM

And rent, apparently. The story changed from post to post.

sarcasm_made_Easy · January 17, 2008, 07:35:32 PM

uh whats CT and DRM?

Edit: I figured it out. thanks

RoninFox · January 17, 2008, 07:36:40 PM

CT=Cinematic Titanic (At least I hope that's what we're talking about, it occasionally means other things.

) I'm confused on DRM myself though.

bettertomorrowamy · January 17, 2008, 07:41:00 PM

Digital Rights Management

AmandaGal · January 17, 2008, 10:30:16 PM

Americans aren't the idiots if our foreign brothers and sisters are paying $75 for CT. (I doubt he had many takers).

It sucks that they can't get it, but there are other ways to get. I betcha Joel and the gang have rent and mortgages too.

DRM is like Rifftrax video on demand or iTunes protected ACC. You can download the content but there are certain limitations on how you can view it (or how long). For Rifftrax, you have to have a Divx player. For Apple iTunes, you have to have an iTunes account married to the username that purchased the music or video.

RoninFox · January 18, 2008, 04:44:49 PM

Ahh, so DRM=UNA unfortunately necessary annoyances.

ColinBlair · January 21, 2008, 08:41:50 PM

It would be interesting to know how much money Rifftrax gets through their Donate link. I know that has been the experience of Baen books. They have been selling (and just plain giving away) their books without DRM for years and sales have gone up.

Nergol · January 21, 2008, 09:18:02 PM

Like I said in another post, CinTit needs to make their products available for easy legal download. A deal with iTunes would be an excellent bet. We're just not in a world in which people have the patience to wait three weeks - or even one week - for a physical DVD to show up. Especially for something like CinTit, which I could totally see as being a spur-of-the-moment thing that people would buy to show at a party or on a slow afternoon. I know I've downloaded (and paid for) RiffTrax about five minutes before I showed them because I knew I had people coming over and needed something good to show.

I realy think this may be a make-or-break for CinTit as a business venture. It's not 1990, and a 1990 business model just isn't going to cut it.

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