I urge you again to boycott hollywood - they are using our money to curtail our rights. Stop giving it to them.

epickeychange · 4 months

This is a protest I can really get behind. Only problem is, I've been protesting for years now. Living under the poverty line = FIGHT THE POWER

TheDark1 · 4 months

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Psykus · 4 months

I'll play games instead of watching movies. Give your pocket money to Good Guy Gabe instead of Scumbag Rupert!

I'm not sure about Valve but many game companies are members of the BSA which has given massive support to the SOPA/PIPA bills.

EDIT: Correction: Actually the ESA/Entertainment Software Association. It's early.

furryfetus · 4 months

I realized I have been passively "protesting" these companies for months. I haven't rented/pirated/purchased/seen a movie in a theater for nearly a year. I haven't signed up for Netflix. All the music I have purchased has been from independent distributors (bandcamp, cdbaby, etc...). When the majority of the content is garbage, it's easy to boycott the providers. Heck, I've even been reading more books lately.

b00ks · 4 months

I'm with you.

Last night I gave this a lot of thought and figured you are right.

I'm a movie nerd. Like, huge. I listen to film podcasts, I watch movies over and over again and quote them endlessly, but something changed last night. I realized that my money, that I have willingly gave to these industries was being used to prosecute grandmothers, college students, internet users, my peers and likely the industries own consumers.. not to mention they are using this money to pass legislation that could impact the way I use the internet.

So I decided that I'm not doing a month long boycott, but a boycott until something changes. I am cancelling my netflix account, hulu plus, pulling any money that I have tied up in any stocks that are remotely related to the movie industry. I will no longer buy any dvds, even if walmart has a killer deal on supertroopers. I will no longer buy any music, legitimately or illegitimate. I am going to do what ever I can possibly do to limit the amount of money that goes to big content. I am going to unsubscribe from any related sub. I am effectively going dark.

The big obvious exemption is internet. Bresnan is the only provider I can get so I will have to continue to support them until there is truly competition in this market. (I have not other option where I live)

Will this have an impact on the movie industry? Likely not. The amount of money that I spend would buy coffee for a stars trailer for one day. Will it have a negative impact on me? Possibly, my knowledge of recent pop culture might decline, but instead of sitting on a couch for hours a day, or going to a movie theater, or listening to music, I will likely end up out doors or cleaning the house or doing more productive things with my time. I could argue that my quality of life might actually improve.

Now, I don't have anything against netflix, or Hulu. I like their business model, I love what they are trying to do. Unfortunately, my money that I pay to these services is getting portioned off to the studios. So, sorry netflix. Sorry hulu. It is not your fault. You are fighting the good fight, and I hope you win...

I know I'm not going to convince anyone here to follow suit, but give it some thought. This could be different than the oil industry boycott, as I know that we truly need oil. Those boycotts are ridiculous. I personally laugh at anyone who "boycotts" gas, because you will eventually need to go somewhere.... I don't believe for a second that I will ever need to watch the new Batman, or listen to the new hit album. I will just want to.

Skyy-High · 4 months

There's a Batman movie, an Avengers movies, and a LotR movie coming out this year.

Good fucking luck.

fr0gz0r · 4 months

I think that bad movies are a symptom larger societal problems. Workers are tired, overspent and underpaid. The success of garbage like "Jack & Jill" is indicative of people medicating themselves with media to relax after working all day. It's sad and crappy, but really just indicative of broader social/economic problems.

kylmorg · 4 months

I'm pretty sure this idea is going to work.

[deleted] · 4 months

You want to treat the symptoms instead of the problem. Change politics instead.

scottmilgram · 4 months

Maddox made a point that, in order to be effective in protest, you have to inconvenience yourself at least.

If you're not prepared to do that, and there is a film you're gagging to see, you might consider holding off for a couple of weeks after release. Some screwy Hollywood accounting means that the theatre keeps more of the proceeds of your ticket as time passes since the opening night.

So, either put yourself out in the name of protest, or go see The Dark Knight Rises on August 4th at the earliest (TDKR opens 20/07 at the time of writing). Doing this will at least deny the box office some of your green.

Screeching u-turn of an edit: As Railboy and Random_Tangent have pointed out, this practice is no longer commonplace, and the theatre's slice of ticket revenue tends to be the same across the entire theatrical run. With that in mind I feel that simply delaying then paying is a defunct strategy for hurting Big Content. A case could be made for avoiding the opening weekend in order to make the studio lose face - they love to boast about opening numbers, and if an opening weekend boycott were implemented effectively it would not make the board look good in front of the shareholders. io9 has an okay article on the obtuse world of box office numbercrunching.

Really though it just drives me further towards Maddox's point - no pain, no gain. If you give enough of a shit about this you'll go cold turkey - no cinema, no DVDs, no CDs, indies only from here on out, and most importantly you'll tell all and sundry why you're fighting, because the biggest thing letting Lemar and friends railroad the web is not enough people have woken the fuck up yet.

TL,DR: Protest requires resolve. You can't have long-term gain without short-term suffering.

paidinteeth · 4 months

Honestly, everyone should just keep their consumeristic desires in check in general. throwing too much money at any industry incurs the potential of turning well-intentioned players into greedy, self-serving, meglomaniacal monsters. Capitalism is like alcohol, use responsibly.

djfivenine11 · 4 months

It's not like everyone working for these studios are driving around sunny california in their BMWs and throwing money out their windows.

There are probably 15000 people at these 6 studios, maybe more. You would assume more of these people are just trying to make a living doing their jobs. If the boycott is successful, the VPs, CEOs and directors won't be losing too much money, most of these minimum wage people will just get laid off.

One of the arguments against SOPA was that you shouldn't help one industry by directly hurting another industry. And by boycotting the movie industry, we are doing exactly that.

I urge you to think of another plan.

InABananaSuit · 4 months

We live in a world where the Kardashians exist as authors, stage marriages to make millions, and have adoring fans while Americans' freedoms are threatened by liars and the ignorant. Meanwhile, women, minorities, and gays fight for equal rights. Sadly, no one cares.

edibledevice · 4 months

you know what doesnt give money to hollywood?

the fucking library

i'm gonna go today and take out like three different books, FOR FREE, and there is nothing hollywood or sopa/pipa can do to stop me

xDynaBlade · 4 months

My proposal is, we boycott these studios until SOPA/PIPA is dead or until they publicly oppose these bills (which is highly unlikely to happen).

How about we boycott them until they stop trying to change copyright laws? If SOPA/PIPA are defeated, it means nothing. It only means they'll come up with another 4-letter acronym to try and take our rights away later. Keep boycotting until they die.

manlydishwasher · 4 months

Nicolas Cage will be fuming at this thread.

nogami · 4 months

By the movie studio, record company, and game industry measures though, if you're not buying their products, you're a filthy pirate stealing their products.

I don't think it has ever occurred to them that some people may not want their products...

mi-16evil · 4 months

I'll just throw my hat in this fight by saying I don't think this is the best idea. I hate to say it but the hardcore internet community really has no impact on the overall attendance of films. Just compare Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Crystal Skull was unwanted by everyone in the critical and fan community but made $300 mil. Then you have Scott Pilgrim which was made entirely for an internet audience that completely flopped...supposedly. Actually Scott Pilgrim made a good chunk of money on it's back-end, through DVD and On-Demand sales, because that is the business model that our community respects. But Hollywood doesn't care about that because all that matters to them is the front end, which most people of this generation don't participate in. Essentially you are just trying to convince a generation of people who don't normally go to the theater to not go to the theater.

Okay so let's just go hypothetical for a second. Let's say your boycott really takes of. For argument sake let's say it will be a "boycott The Dark Knight Rises Opening Weekend" event. So your event is really big. It's on Reddit, it's on Google, it's on Facebook and it's even on the nightly news. Everyone knows about this event. and it works and you cut down the expected profits for the film by a good 50% (which is REALLY optimistic). Even then Hollywood won't give a damn. Why? Because Hollywood has for a hundred years practiced very shady accounting skills. They can come up with any excuse to justify why a film failed or a a film succeeded. Look at the way they covered over Inception's success or pumped up Green Lantern's flop. There are hundreds of articles about infamous Hollywood accounting tricks and if this boycott is successful they will pull out every single one. They will blame the weather or a sports event or fear mongering or whatever. They will find a way to make the profits of The Dark Knight Rises look completely unaffected by the boycott.

Okay so I've been pretty cynical so far so let's go positive for a second here. The internet showed something very powerful this Wednesday and I have to say it was the most effective protest I've seen in my life. But what made that protest effective was that it was on our terms. We proved to the government that we understand the internet better than they do, and we could fight back better than they could. With film we are just fighting a losing battle. If we are combining all our efforts to fight the media, I feel we should focus our efforts on a much more important issue: lobbyists. Let's face it, even if this boycott did go beyond expectations and succeed fully and the movie industry backed of, it's only a matter of time before another industry comes along to take down the true internet. As long as lobbyists have as much power as they want then we will always be fighting this battle, no matter how many wins we get.

If you want to boycott and protest that's great. In fact DO boycott if you feel it's necessary. Just don't think it's going to change Hollywood within a year. They are a billion dollar industry and like any billion dollar industry they will follow the tidal gravity of the market. If you really want to change Hollywood than just keep doing what you've been doing. Use new technologies, avoid theaters and films you find appalling and encourage people to seek other options of entertainment. Hollywood is slowly dying because they are failing to innovate. They are still based on these out-dated systems that have no place in the internet age. The best way to fight Hollywood is to support the innovators. Only see films at theaters that are doing something new like Alamo Drafthouse. Only go to films that are original like Inception. And most importantly, only watch media through services that respect their customers like Netflix. That's the best way to teach Hollywood a lesson.

tl;dr A Hollywood boycott probably wouldn't work and we should focus our efforts in restricting lobbyists' power in Congress.

Supernumerary · 4 months

Have you read about the Black March concept yet?

Frankfusion · 4 months

OK here's a crazy idea: Reddit Productions. We have more than enough creative people here (with more than enough time) to get together, make, market and distribute films. We can stream it online, offer downloads for pay, or even get it into independent theaters. I bet with enough time and practice, we could show what a new model of movie making could be.

mekese2000 · 4 months

Good luck with that.

Box office hits last year: Justin Bieber: Never Say Never The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1: The Smurfs: Mr. Popper's Penguins.

People are idiots.

lieutenantpage · 4 months

I work in Hollywood, have major credits and am broke as shit with tons of student debt and no chance of paying it off within 30 years. Please tell me how your boycott will benefit me, and the countless other invisibles like me who make Hollywood function. Edit: clarified what type of debt (like it matters)

virus5877 · 4 months

I haven't paid a dime to the movie industry in probably 2 years. I torrent everything. Netflix's 8 bucks a month is the only legit money I am willing to pay for content, and come on...that's a helluva deal! :)

Music is another matter completely, I regularly go to concerts, and I consistently support the music artists I truly enjoy. (kanye gets torrented though :P )

manueslapera · 4 months

What I dont understand is this.

Netflix is profitable, or at least has been running for a bunch of years, with intentions for international expansion.

For Netflix to be able to provide content produced by the Big Six, it has to agree with draconian contracts, royalties and fees.

So, wouldnt be smarter for the Big Six to start their own Netflix?. The licensing fees they would pay would be basically 0 (I mean, they would be paying to themselves). Plus they have the contacts, both in the industry (they ARE the industry) and regulators.

Im pretty sure its cheaper to start a service like than the amounts they are using to lobby. Plus no one would complain if they did it.

Web0542 · 4 months

I've thought about this proposition for some time, and come to the conclusion that at least for me it isn't possible and I don't believe it's the right way of protesting, I believe that fight should be aimed squarely where at belongs and that's on capital hill.

Not buying a DVD isn't going to stop them from pushing this agenda, and nor will it influence politics in any substantive way whatsoever.

Getting involved in politics is crucial, and frankly the only way for you to let your voice be heard, not buying these products is just not a feasible nor effective form of protest.

I enjoy Hollywood movies & TV shows, I feel that it's one of the few things that makes life tolerable, it's not just entertainment but a form of art & expression.

We're so lucky to have this problem, people are starving to death and here we are arguing about movie piracy - enjoy your movies and TV shows & keep your criticism for the relevant politician and media outlets where it belongs.

dvh3 · 4 months

But... but... Avengers... Whedon... I...

Ok. :(

I will boycott. But I don't have to like it.

DeadStare · 4 months

The issue with boycotting these studios is that they are currently too big to fail, you would have to boycott them on a mass scale.

Also the other issue is the size of which we are boycotting and everything owned, for instance if you were to boycott fox, you would want to boycott News Corp. This list is as follows starting with internet first: And as you will see with just this list for news corp the world has allowed a monopoly that is too big to fail come into existence, no one group or person should be able to own this much power. If I get time later will look for others holdings.

MySpace
Authonomy
News Digital Media
WhatIfSports
Scout.com
MyNetworktv.com
IGN
Hulu.com
GameSpy
Foxsports.com
Fox.com
AskMen.com
AmericanIdol.com
Fox Interactive Media

here is overseas television assets

BSkyB [United Kingdom] (39.1%)
Sky Deutschland [Germany] (49.90%)
SKY Italia [Italy] (100%)
SKY Network Television [New Zealand] (43.65%)
Foxtel [Australia] (25%)
Star TV [India & Greater China] (100%)
Tata Sky [India] (20%)

Cable tv assets

Big Ten Network (49%)
Fox Business Network
Fox College Sports
Fox Movie Channel
Fox News Channel
Fox Soccer Channel
Fox Sports Enterprises
Fox Sports en Español
Foxtel (25%) -
Fox Sports Net
FUEL TV
FX Networks
Fox Reality Channel
National Geographic Channel (50%)
National Geographic Channel UK (50%)
Speed Channel
SportSouth
LAPTV (Latin America — co-owned with Paramount Pictures/Viacom, * Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/MGM Holdings and Universal Studios/NBC Universal)
Telecine (Brazil — co-owned with Globosat Canais, Paramount * Pictures, MGM, Universal Studios and DreamWorks)

Broadcast/Production:

20th Century Fox Television
20th Television
Foxtel
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox International Channels
Fox International Channels Italy
Fox Sports Australia
Fox Telecolombia
Fox Television Stations
Fox Television Studios
Imedi Media Holding
Latvijas Neatkarīgā Televīzija
MyNetworkTV
STAR TV
TV5 Rīga

Filmed entertainment:

20th Century Fox
Fox Searchlight Pictures
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Blue Sky Studios
20th Century Fox Español
20th Century Fox International
20th Century Fox Television
Fox Studios Australia
Fox Studios LA
Fox Television Studios
Shine Group

Magazines and inserts:

Alpha
Australian Football Weekly
Australian Golf Digest
Australian Good Taste (with Woolworths)
Australian Parents (with Woolworths)
Best of the Gold Coast Magazine
Big League
Chopper
Country Style
delicious. (with the ABC)
donna hay
Gardening Australia (with the ABC)
GQ Australia
Inside Out
Lifestyle Pools + outdoor design
Live to Ride
MasterChef Magazine
Modern Boating
Modern Fishing
Overlander 4WD
SmartSource Magazine
Super Food Ideas
Tattoo
Truck & Trailer Australia
Truckin' Life
Two Wheels
Two Wheels Scooter
Vogue Australia
Vogue Entertaining + Travel

News papers:

United Kingdom:

*News International *The Sun *The Times *Sunday Times Australia:

*News Limited *Metropolitan newspapers, magazines and news distribution channels

National:

The Australian including weekly insert magazine The Deal and monthly insert magazine
The Weekend Australian including insert magazine The Weekend Australian Magazine
Australian Associated Press
www.news.com.au National online news website
New South Wales
The Daily Telegraph
The Sunday Telegraph including insert magazine sundaymagazine
mX (Sydney)
Victoria
Herald Sun
Sunday Herald Sun including insert magazine sundaymagazine
mX (Melbourne)
Queensland
The Courier-Mail including weekly insert magazine QWeekend
The Sunday Mail
Brisbane News
South Australia
The Advertiser including the monthly insert the Adelaide* magazine
Sunday Mail
Western Australia
The Sunday Times
Tasmania
The Mercury
The Sunday Tasmanian
Northern Territory
Northern Territory News
Sunday Territorian
Community suburban newspapers
Sydney
Cumberland/Courier (NSW) newspapers
Blacktown Advocate
Canterbury-Bankstown Express
Central
Central Coast Express Advocate
Fairfield Advance
Hills Shire Times
Hornsby and Upper North Shore Advocate
Inner West Courier
Liverpool Leader
Macarthur Chronicle
Mt Druitt-St Marys Standard
NINETOFIVE
North Shore Times
Northern District Times
NORTHSIDE
Parramatta Advertiser
Penrith Press
Rouse Hill Times
Southern Courier
The Manly Daily
The Mosman Daily
Village Voice Balmain
Wentworth Courier
Melbourne
Leader (Vic) newspapers
Bayside Leader
Berwick/Pakenham Cardinia Leader
Brimbank Leader
Caulfield Glen Eira/Port Philip Leader
Cranbourne Leader
Dandenong/Springvale Dandenong Leader
Diamond Valley Leader
Frankston Standard/Hastings Leader
Free Press Leader
Heidelberg Leader
Hobsons Bay Leader
Hume Leader
Knox Leader
Lilydale & Yarra Valley Leader
Manningham Leader
Maribyrnong Leader www.maribyrnongleader.com.au
Maroondah Leader
Melbourne Leader
Melton/Moorabool Leader
Moonee Valley Leader
Moorabbin Kingston/Moorabbin Glen Eira Leader
Mordialloc Chelsea Leader
Moreland Leader
Mornington Peninsula Leader
Northcote Leader
Preston Leader
Progress Leader
Stonnington Leader
Sunbury/Macedon Ranges Leader
Waverley/Oakleigh Monash Leader
Whitehorse Leader
Whittlesea Leader
Wyndham Leader
Brisbane
Quest (QLD) newspapers
Albert & Logan News (Fri)
Albert & Logan News (Wed)
Caboolture Shire Herald
Caloundra Journal
City News
City North News
City South News
Ipswich News
Logan West Leader
Maroochy Journal
North-West News
Northern Times
Northside Chronicle
Pine Rivers Press/North Lakes Times
Redcliffe and Bayside Herald
South-East Advertiser
South-West News/Springfield News
Southern Star
The Noosa Journal
weekender
Westside News
Wynnum Herald
Weekender Essential Sunshine Coast
Adelaide
Messenger (SA) newspapers
Adelaide Matters
City Messenger
City North Messenger
East Torrens Messenger
Eastern Courier Messenger
Guardian Messenger
Hills & Valley Messenger
Leader Messenger
News Review Messenger
Portside Messenger
Southern Times Messenger
Weekly Times Messenger
Perth
Community (WA) newspapers
Advocate
Canning Times
Comment News
Eastern Reporter
Fremantle-Cockburn Gazette
Guardian Express
Hills-Avon Valley Gazette
Joondalup-Wanneroo Times
Mandurah Coastal / Pinjarra Murray Times
Melville Times
Midland-Kalamunda Reporter
North Coast Times
Southern Gazette
Stirling Times
Weekend-Kwinana Courier
Weekender
Western Suburbs Weekly
Darwin
Sun (NT) newspapers
Darwin Sun
Litchfield Sun
Palmerston Sun
Regional and rural newspapers
New South Wales
Tweed Sun'
Victoria
Echo
Geelong Advertiser
GeelongNEWS
The Weekly Times
Queensland
Ayr Advocate
Bowen Independent
Cairns Sun
Gold Coast Bulletin
Gold Coast Sun
Herbert River Express
Home Hill Observer
Innisfail Advocate
Northern Miner
Port Douglas & Mossman Gazette
Tablelander - Atherton
Tablelands Advertiser
The Cairns Post
The Noosa Journal
Townsville Bulletin
Townsville Sun
weekender

Tasmania

Derwent Valley Gazette
Tasmanian Country

Northern Territory

Centralian Advocate
[edit]Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea Post-Courier

United States

New York Post
Wall Street Journal
Community Newspaper Group
The Brooklyn Paper
Courier-Life Publications
TimesLedger Newspapers
Bronx Times Reporter Inc.
The Corning Leader

International:

*Dow Jones & Company

Consumer Media Group

The Wall Street Journal - the leading US financial newspaper.
Wall Street Journal Europe
Wall Street Journal Asia
Barron's - weekly financial markets magazine.
Marketwatch - Financial news and information website.
Far Eastern Economic Review Financial News
Enterprise Media Group
Dow Jones Newswires - global, real-time news and information provider.
Factiva - provides business news and information together with content delivery tools and services.
Dow Jones Indexes - stock market indexes and indicators, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Dow Jones Financial Information Services — produces databases, electronic media, newsletters, conferences, directories, and other information services on specialised markets and industry sectors.
Betten Financial News — leading Dutch language financial and economic news service.
Local Media Group'
Dow Jones Local Media Group (formerly Ottaway Community Newspapers) - 8 daily and 15 weekly regional newspapers.
Strategic Alliances
STOXX (33%) - joint venture with Deutsche Boerse and SWG Group for the development and distribution of Dow Jones STOXX indices.
Vedomosti (33%) - Russia's leading financial newspaper (joint venture with Financial Times and Independent Media).
SmartMoney (50%)
FiLife.com (50%)

gathly · 4 months

No one will do this. People will not actually go without anything they want. We only got Reddit to go dark for less than a day. Google didn't really do anything at all, and that's protesting stuff that affects their business directly. People aren't going to give up movies and video games. It's the same reason everyone felt fine boycotting Go Daddy, but nothing else.

ThirdEyedea · 4 months

I'd be willing to boycott Hollywood just for making shitty movies lately.

gulinbursti · 4 months

Games have just as much copyright legislation as movies and music.

donrhummy · 4 months

I agree 100%. The ONLY thing that will stop them is loss of money.

DefectiveHamster · 4 months

But... Reddit loves movies. And a LOT of redditors make their humble livings in the movie industry. The rich fucks at the top have their money, a boycott will only force them to cut costs by giving you realityTV styled films, and outsource all CGI. Seriously, Reddit, this boycott idea is misguided. Why not target the sopa/pipa supporting moguls directly instead of taking down an industry full of tech/art jobs?

adv0589 · 4 months

I have a fairly strong feeling that this protest would have the exact opposite effects of what you are hoping for, most likely Hollywood would go to Washington and complain that piracy is causing their sales to plummet if we had any success

aptrapani · 4 months

SUPPORT INDIE FILMS ONLY!!!! DO THIS FOR 365 DAYS AND I GUARANTEE HOLLYWOOD KISSES THE RING!!!......guaranteed.

JuicyFruity · 4 months

What many people miss here is that Content Producers have a legitimate argument. There is an industry that makes a product, that millions of people rely on for their livelihood, and billions enjoy. Many profit illegally off of their labor, and many others would rather not pay for it, but instead enjoy it and have others bear the costs.

It is a Free-Rider dilemma. Many people want something (in this case creative content) for free, and make others pay for it. No one denies it costs money to produce content, and high quality content can costs a great deal to produce.

People justify not paying for that content because other people pay for it, and other people seem to make enough money and should be content.

While the former model of doing business is failing, and an industry reeling from a technological assault on their business has struck out in controversial directions to try and save their business, I have yet to see a new model appear which is fair to the producers of the content to reap the benefits of their product either.

How do all the pirates/down-loaders/free-riders out there propose to create a situation in the future that is fair to content creators, as well as those who want to enjoy that content?

Alpha_and_Teilhard · 4 months

Let's just pirate all the movies/TV and donate $100 per month to Doctors without Borders. karma-offset

edit- added a bit of context below

instructable · 4 months

Boycotting won't work - fight to restore copyright protection to the original 14 year term length!

[deleted] · 4 months

That's it i'm never watching a movie or playign a game again..EVER ಠ_ಠ

dnj · 4 months

List of hobbies (not so boring life!) http://www.notsoboringlife.com/list-of-hobbies/

personoftheyear · 4 months

I see no difference of watching a movie now or two months later on DVD. I can wait. They (hollywood) can't.

loercase · 4 months

I would argue that we should still see movies in theatres, to support local business, but we should really prioritize independent filmmakers, which we really should be doing anyway. Avoid buying DVDs full stop.

sarebroman · 4 months

I will be joining your sub reddit now, I think we should all post links of media / entertainment from ALL other sources. The hardest part to boycotting these people is finding an altertnative. But with our community I think we can pull things together and enjoy all the same media without these assholes.

CherikeeRed · 4 months

Box office returns in 2011 were the lowest they've been since the mid-90's. We're trying, really!

koy5 · 4 months

A boycott isn't what we need we need to just keep leeching of their movies and rewarding the studios that do something that lowers the price of movies while diseminating their content to a larger audience like Louis CK.

mjbreese · 4 months

Was going to go to the movies to see Haywire tonight, am choosing not to in protest due to hollywoods support of SOPA. we should all get together and have a 6 months of boycotting holywood.

When they whine about lost revenue they seem to think it's all about piracy. The internet has provided far more intresting things to spend your time on other than crap like Jersey Shore.

Same with gaming systems.  For a very long time Nintendo attributed their slowing game sales of the Nintendo DS due to piracy.  Only when it got to the point where they could no longer get

around it they finally acknowledged that the main reason for their lack of profits was that people would rather entertain themselves with their smartphones instead.

zysecuh · 4 months

Boycott? I see maybe two movies a year, never during the first two weeks. I don't watch television, and have no cable, no satellite. Just basic internet service. I never buy dvds new, only secondhand.

How can I improve on that?

WinterInJapan · 4 months

You imply that I can afford to regularly buy films.

jeblis · 4 months

Ok, but remember that means you'll have to cancel cable, Netflix/hulu subscriptions, skip seeing the Hobbit, Prometheus, the new seasons of Mad Men, Breaking Bad, How I Met Your Mother, Arrested Development... Not so easy to do. Part of the problem is that by not seeing stuff you will hurt innocent bystanders first, theater owners/employees, artists, actors, etc. The rich corporate owners will personally see little hardship. I'm not saying it isn't worthwhile, just that there are unintended consequences.

thechris353 · 4 months

I try to get out to the movies at least once a week.

This is now going to drop to 0.

phate24 · 4 months

Wont the MPAA and RIAA just claim that the loss of revenue is due to piracy and use that as more fuel for the fire?

MysticalCheese · 4 months

If Hollywood wants more money, the should stop making steaming piles of shit. At least 50% of the crap they churn out are rehashes. They cry out about lost money, I wonder how much of that is lost through Hollywood accounting scams? http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100708/02510310122.shtml

jordan-lee · 4 months

I'll play games instead of watching movies.

I suppose not on a PlayStation?

Derek_Foreal · 4 months

I've been boycotting hollywood for years. The logic isn't really sound though, they are doing all of this SOPA stuff because they are seeing their profits shrink. More shrinking profits would just be ammunition for why they need SOPA. They'll translate money lost into jobs lost and everyone will get behind it. Also I don't like how you make this political "we all know he's anti-obama" like that has anything to do with this at all.

sleepwalkcapsules · 4 months

So we at reddit will have to shoot our own movies. Think "Be Kind Rewind" but with other fatties instead of Jack Black.

Socratesandboxes · 4 months

Why I am giving Disney nearly 10 grand next month alone but only to the resort so no biggy.

MeesterGone · 4 months

Except when the new Batman comes out, right? And Prometheus and the new Wes Anderson movie, right? Right?

jjm214 · 4 months

ill pass

Butorand · 4 months

I buy 3 Blu-Rays or DVDs from Hollywood a year (or even fewer). Does it count?

misterteenwolf · 4 months

Ok I'm down. But I'm gonna have a cheat day when Dark Knight Rises comes out

Thizzlebot · 4 months

I will gladly boycott but I am breaking that shit for Spider-man and Dark Knight Rises. Not Debatable.

UnderworldReptile · 4 months

Boycotting Hollywood? This is absolute madness! ... I'm in.

skyhigh_3640 · 4 months

What!??!? Another chance to hop on a protest band wagon, you say?!?!?!....I'm in!

abegosum · 4 months

One very legal way you can do this and still consume some media is to buy used, particularly from thrift stores or Craigslist. The first-sale doctrine explicitly codifies that there will never be a question of copyright there. Nothing to lobby, no money to big media, closed question.

Check out your local thrift stores, Craigslists, and used record stores for not only great deals, but the opportunity to stick it to the labels that want to screw you.

crunchytheory · 4 months

I will support this... but not until after I've seen The Dark Knight Rises in IMAX.

HeCardsReadsGood · 4 months

I'll do it until The Dark Knight Rises comes out.

jtisch · 4 months

timeout! did you say NO BATMAN? im out.....

takka_takka_takka · 4 months

You know what the cool kids are doing? We are going to the motherfucking library, man!

VorpalAuroch · 4 months

I can do this while still watching Doctor Who and Sherlock. K, I'm good.

CornFedHonky · 4 months

Batman? Fuck it! I can go without.

You twisted fuck...

nrgianni · 4 months

I don't think you've thought this. If you're successful, the result will be some companies, in theory file bankruptcy, some rich execs take their fortune and do something else, and you put thousands and thousands of middle class Americans out of work. The entertainment industry is one of the few industries in the US that is dominated by unions still. Dont fuck up my livelihood because Americans are too stupid to to vote for worthy congressmen.

Bajee · 4 months

Honestly, hollywood would make ridiculous money if they just got out of their 1990's mindset and adapted to the internet. Can you imagine how much money they would make if they did say $5-10 streaming new releases at home?

shawnpeps · 4 months

I'm totally down with this.

Movies are fun and all, but to be honest - I can go without.

I'd happily keep my hard earned cash in my own pockets for pretty much all entertainment.

• Movies - Don't really need 'em. I've got a pretty big collection already.

• Music - I tend to buy a lot of harder to find, smaller post-metal/slude/doom kind of stuff - so, small labels and small bands. Not too worried about that, and more often than not the money ends up going directly to the band.

louderthanbombs · 4 months

10 Reasons /r/movies won't boycott Hollywood until 2013:

The Dark Knight Rises

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Prometheus

Django Unchained

The Avengers

James Bond: Skyfall

The Amazing Spider-Man

The Great Gatsby

Lincoln

World War Z

iwaskhazard · 4 months

It's funny, because ever since I was a little kid, I never wanted to go see a movie. Why? Because these pretentious f*cks called "movie-stars" get famous for literally doing something ANYONE can do. I haven't seen a movie in seven years. The fact that hollywood is trying to control our rights? Laughable.

love how spell check is trying to make me capitalize hollywood

DudeAsInCool · 4 months

Hollywood isn't just comprised of the big conglomerates, it also includes the creative community and craftsmen, many of whom support an open internet. There is a solution for Hollywood: provide diverse high quality product online for a reasonable price and piracy and copyright infringement won't be a problem.

ecook123 · 4 months

I love hollywood, I think the shit they come up with is awesome, I don't think they give two shits about joe shmoe making home videos. If this isn't about piracy what is it about?

LaziestManAlive · 4 months

Wow, was thinking the same thing. People keep telling me to go see Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, but honestly, the whole SOPA/PIPA thing has me so jaded, I hesitate giving my money to the assholes responsible for pushing for such legislation.

When reddit was blacked out, one of the videos cited a statistic which compared how much money our country makes from the internet compared to what was dismally represented by how much is made from movies/music. The gap is huge, and the only explanation I can surmise is campaign money that goes to our current Congressman.

I'll join your cause. My question is this: today, we are on the reddit frontpage. What is to say tomorrow this cause won't settle into the depths of r/new and slowly fizzle out?

PaperInFire · 4 months

In a better world...Hollywood would realize that we geeks built them the greatest promotion and distribution platform they could ever have. We did it for free: none of them paid a dime for it. All they had to do was adapt, evolve and use it. They could make an even bigger fortune than they already are. We really wouldn't care.

Instead, they've tried to burn it to the ground.

It should be clear to everyone now that we face a choice: we can have Hollywood or we can have the Internet. There is no other way because they've MADE SURE THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.

This doesn't mean the end of movies: a heck of a lot of movies are made elsewhere, and some of them are incredibly good. But it MUST mean the end of the Hollywood, of the big six studios. They must be destroyed, and the best way that we have to do that is to cut off their cash flow. So: no movie tickets. No movie purchases. No movie rentals. Money is the oxygen of Hollywood, and we need to stand on their air hose.

Sekular · 4 months

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ALIENSMACK · 4 months

Ive been boycotting Hollywood for over a year now , I dont have cable , I only buy used dvds never new ( so $5 or $6 max Im willing to pay ) and I havnt been to the theatre since Famous Players broke the Projectionists Union a number of years ago , they locked them all out and got scabs to do it . Fuck Hollywood , remaking Total Recall ? gimme a fucking break , I think I Totally Recall how that ends ,

YepThatLooksInfected · 4 months

Reality: Hollywood has been trying to help us boycott for years now! Honestly, have you seen the shit that they put out for films right now?

I prefer spending my time making my own stories happen IRL instead of watching overpaid celebrities act out other people's stories.

Freewheelin · 4 months

I like how Americans seem to think boycotting Hollywood means boycotting ALL movies. You guys know we make movies here in the rest of the world, right? And then there are the movies made outside of Hollywood but still within the US. You all jump at the chance to complain about the shit Hollywood churns out in the theater, but more often than not you'll still go and see those fucking movies, and you won't bother to support the small, interesting films that actually need your attention. Also why is it that every US-centric "protest" seems to involve doing absolutely nothing at all?

BenedictArnold · 4 months

Count me in. Hollywood produces mostly bullshit these days anyways.

facetiousjesus · 4 months

I work in a Production company like many people in the industry, and this bill would crush production and inevitably crush small businesses that succeed on transferring files and making great work. Ultimately it would allow the NOT SO BIG 6 to come in and sue the hell out of companies for using content such as music or video clips. Oh and to boycott them I'll jsut HUB and workout what else does one need!!! -_-

AaronPDX · 4 months

If you buy drugs, you're funding terrorism? If you buy CD's and movies, you're funding fascism. Somebody make that commercial.

GueroCabron · 4 months

Relevant. I would pay $15 for a 1080p video download that was like the pirated one. $5 for the one they provide on DVD

Spurnout · 4 months

Just curious, but what do you think the Politicians do with our money? I'm pretty sure they stifle our rights as well! lol

TheToecutter · 4 months

Our rights to watch their wares for free? We're already boycotting them by watching everything through torrents and illegal downloads. I cant believe all of these filesharing sites etc have been able to go on as long as they have. Years ago I kept expecting everything to get closed down in a matter of months. I was trying to download some shitty movie before they shut it all down. 7 or 8 years later its just getting more and more mainstream.

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As i read some of the replies in this thread, i can't help but think 'paid mpaa trolls'.

donrhummy · 4 months

Can we get a good list of everything to avoid? TV/Movies are pretty easy, but there's a whole lot of websites as well (I've been avoiding espn, for example and it's not been easy ;) ) and other companies too.

stonewalls · 4 months

99% of all movies today really suck anyway! Boycott has begun!!!!!

FordSVT1 · 4 months

Odd, the number of people who say they already boycott big media who have mentioned that they watch The Daily Show. You know, the one on the Comedy Channel, the network owned by that little mom and pop operation VIACOM. Oh, you pirate it you say? Thanks for validating their theories about piracy.

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