Comments on: The American Entertainment Industry is Contributing to Global Piracy!

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DSi Will Be Region-Locked, Sad Face… | Gaming Podcast — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:44:10 +0000

[...] like the US Entertainment Industries need to lock down everything and contribute to global piracy, Nintendo follows suit with their hand-helds, tis a sad day indeed. Of course Nintendo reasons it [...]

By: Derrick Schommer

Derrick Schommer — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:16:23 +0000

Yeah, you sound a bit Jaded. I’m not sure if they feel our shows wouldn’t have a great impact abroad due to cultural differences and such, but still.

There are plenty of neat shows on BBC that I’d love to see but we never bring them here… we ‘reproduce’ them with new actors and hope they work (ie. The Office)

The thing is, with our current global economy you’d think they’d jump on the chances especially with online TV show websites and such, like hulu.com and others. Giving everyone a chance to be attached to our entertainment industry here in the States.

By: MrLee

MrLee — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:53:30 +0000

With regards to TV and movies, I for one do not care. I realized a long time ago that american moviecompanies and american television producers don’t give a rat’s ass about europe or other parts of the world. They make movies and TV series for the home audience. If they make a little extra cash selling the series abroad or get some revenue from the box office in Europe, that’s just a little extra gravy to them. Maybe I’m just jaded or something, or just gave up fighting the inevitable, but that’s the situation.

Games however, are a whole different matter, and I whole heartedly agree with everything you said, though I would not be so narrow as to single out EA alone.

So keep releasing stuff half a year later in one part of the world, and keep seeing masses of people pirating your releases….