Comments on: Repo Man director urges fans to "pirate a bunch of my stuff right away"

By: James B

James B — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:02:00 +0000

The audience?

By: grimc

grimc — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:32:00 +0000

How about a plate o’ shrimp?

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:22:00 +0000

Actually it’s not stealing, it’s the violation of a copyright license.

The ‘crime’ is unauthorised duplication and distribution. Which is normally a civil matter (try calling the police because somebody violated your copyright).

Leave the herperbole for propaganda at the beginning of the DVD.

By: JammitTimmaj

JammitTimmaj — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000

Sowing the seeds…

By: retchdog

retchdog — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:09:00 +0000

you shall not overflow a buffer, nor through inaction allow the stack to be overwritten.

By: William

William — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:49:00 +0000

Because there isn’t any Canadian BluRay of Repo Man?

By: William

William — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:46:00 +0000

The UK BluRay of Repo Man is region-locked, unfortunately.

By: William

William — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:44:00 +0000

There’s also a graphic novel (comic book trade paperback) of the Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday screenplay, for those who like pictures.

By: William

William — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:41:00 +0000

He’s not completely insane, but his repeating his assertion that the film Repo Men was somehow trading on the reputation of Repo Man (“We took Repo Man sequels to Universal and proposed they do it, but they weren’t interested. What they did instead is they brought out a movie titled Repo Men and pretended that was the sequel.”) is absurd.

By: irksome

irksome — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:32:00 +0000

RE: “stealing”; THANK you.

By: irksome

irksome — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:30:00 +0000

Also, most times I open the trunk, I say/think “Ohhh, you don’t wanna open the trunk.”

You too?

By: hugh crawford

hugh crawford — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:59:00 +0000

“Now they want to have longer copyright periods because they say the young artists are relying on this money. The young artists never see any money because they sign away that money to big media corporations, like Universal and Viacom. ”
Not to take sides one way or another, but in most industries , signing away that possible future money is what the artists are getting paid for when they sign the contract. If there are no rights to sell , then the artists can’t sell them.

Retroactively giving extra rights to the current rights holders seems pretty unreasonable. Imagine how far you would get with legislation awarding a free second car to all current car owners at the manufacturers expense.

By: photodawg

photodawg — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:10:00 +0000

Why not just purchase the Canadian BD version ? I have many BD films issued in Canada before they were available in the USA. There are at least hundreds available on E-bay. I just can’t bring myself to download movies or music, unless it is explicitly marked as FREE. Otherwise, it is just plain, stealing. There is no rationalization that changes that fact.

By: philipbarrett

philipbarrett — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:52:00 +0000

Repo Man is ALWAYS intense

By: Bad Juju

Bad Juju — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:18:00 +0000

Heh. You too? (the motorcycle part)

By: Daniel Gibson

Daniel Gibson — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:50:00 +0000

Cox is a great director, he also made the TV-edit of Repo Man highly amusing, replacing every instance of “motherf****r” with “melon farmer”.

By: bibulb

bibulb — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:15:00 +0000

Goddamnit, now I’m hungry!

By: Dave Jenkins

Dave Jenkins — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:14:00 +0000

“They don’t buy movies in Russia, it’s all free.”
“What are you, some sort of Communist? Cause I don’t allow Communists in my car. And no Christians!”

By: 10xor01

10xor01 — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:52:00 +0000

“Let’s go do some crimes”

By: Matt Moylan

Matt Moylan — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:37:00 +0000

More importantly, who paid for the film in the first place? Who paid for the cast and crew? Who paid for distribution? Who paid for marketing?

By: Ambiguity

Ambiguity — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:24:00 +0000

I don’t know if this is really on-topic or off, but folks should check out the Screenplay for the Repo Man “sequel,” Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday. Alan Cox has posted it on-line, and it’s a fun read.

By: Ambiguity

Ambiguity — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:21:00 +0000

”Ordinary fucking people. I hate ‘em!”

By: Ambiguity

Ambiguity — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:14:00 +0000

Bummer — it’s not a dilemma for me.

Repo Man is actually one of the handful of DVDs that I do already own.

It’s not that I pirate a lot of movies — I don’t. It’s just that I believe in putting my money where my mouth is, so instead of spending all my time complaining about the MPAA (which seems to be the Internet sport du jore), I just more-or-less refuse to consume their product.

It creates surprisingly little hardship!

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:49:00 +0000

Yeah I was going to say – whoops, I bought the DVD a few years ago. I’ll have to download the BluRay next time I want to watch it (it’s one of a handful of films I like to make people I get to know watch), that’ll show em’.

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:29:00 +0000

Aaand if SOPA were in place (or some of those other laws/treaties/whatever that’s been making the rounds) were/going to be/are in place this site would then be blacklisted/have finances cut in that country.

Which nicely illustrates why it’s a terrible idea since between the time link is posted and a mod gets around to removing it somebody could get their panties in a bunch, file to have your site branded as evil child murdering pirate haven and that’d be the end of that.

By: andygates

andygates — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:17:00 +0000

Let’s test that out. Voila, Repo Man: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:b637be50ad87fe942d74b1a990200a00b9307045&dn=Repo+Man%5B1984%5D+-+Movie+%26+Soundtrack&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80

(man, that is one ugly link)

Big Entertainment? Come at me bro.

By: thuxley

thuxley — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:16:00 +0000

Wish someone would do that with Walker (1987):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096409/

By: Wild Rumpus

Wild Rumpus — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:53:00 +0000

Debbi: Duke, let’s go do some crimes.
Duke: Yeah. Let’s go get sushi and not pay.

By: Mark Lyon

Mark Lyon — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:42:00 +0000

It’s available for free streaming through Amazon Prime: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ID1J54/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=marlyo-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000ID1J54

By: Kevin B

Kevin B — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:40:00 +0000

He better watch it because sometimes people just explode!