Screaming Penguin

This from http://www.mpaa.org/anti-piracy/ "The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and its international counterpart, the Motion Picture Association (MPA), estimate that the U.S. motion picture industry loses in excess of $3 billion annually in potential worldwide revenue due to piracy." Now let us all take a minute to consider "potential" shall we? You may walk right up to a bomb which has the "potential" to explode, then walk away without a scratch on you. Now what did that "potential" mean? Nothing! There ain't no such thing as potential. Either it is, or it ain't. Potential does not mean a blasted thing. You can not have the potential to make money. Either you make it, or you don't. Does this potential nonsense mean that I can walk into a store and walk out with something saying to the clerk on the way out that they have the potential of getting paid for the product from me at some later date? That makes about as much sense as the quoted statement from the beginning of my post here. And I see no sense in that at all. But far too many people put real value onto this potential issue, and others. Now I'll give the MPAA a real number to work with. They have made exactly $0 from me with DVDs and shall continute to do so into the forseeable future. And with the crap that they make, and how they behave themselves it'll be a cold day where they came from before this $0 figure changes. They play a dangerious game of flim-flam financing and we all have to pay for it. Sorry Jack, you and your cronies can pick up the tab on this one. I mean cry me a river with the 6th paragraph. Where they explain in gory detail how they waste money. Just because actors can't act, and directors can't direct today. So they must rely on expensive special effects, and "stunts" to carry the day on the dreck they know how to make today. Why it's all poor Jon's fault that the movie industry cannot make the profits that they think that they should. NOT! As I read the page URL from above it is just one paper tiger after another marched out and paraded in front of me. Has anyone here seen a film captured on a camcorder? Let me tell you it leaves a lot to the imagination. One may get the impression that what they are seeing may be a good film. But seeing a camcorder filmed movie is hardly a replacement for seeing the movie itself. OK OK maybe the production values of a hand held camera in a theatre could have beat out Blair Witch project... I am usually a hard facts kind of guy but just this once I will take a moment out to speculate here. Here's a "potential" future as I see it Eventually we will all own the computing horsepower to make our own content. Many are working with what we possess now. But someday it will be an accepted practice for everyone with a vague idea to make their own digital entertainment along the lines that they imagine. The digital divide is narrowing at Moore's pace. When that day comes we can all enjoy a little reality TV watching Jack and his crew pissing into ripple bottles on Pike St. Real justice is always served. Right and wrong are not simply vague concepts but labels placed on what is self sustaining and what doesn't stand a snowballs throw in hell. That snowball had "potential" too. Well until utopia arrives all I can say is avast, ahoy maties, shiver me timbers, and ho ho ho and a bottle of rum over here ;) Hoping this crude digital transmission was of some entertainment value this is Bwaha signing off for now. Feel free to copy in whole or part, and use for any purpose, any of this content. http://www.machinima.com/