Star Wars Episode II out on net

Jin · Post by **Jin** » Fri May 10, 2002 7:37 pm

Well bootleg copys of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is already on the net, a week before it's released.

http://movies.yahoo.com/fc/ymovies/star_wars_episode_ii

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Fri May 10, 2002 7:39 pm

I'll be paying the $8 to see it on the big screen.

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Fri May 10, 2002 7:43 pm

Originally posted by Joint Chiefs Of Staff
I'll be paying the $8 to see it on the big screen.

Going over to the theater tonight to see if I can pick up tickets for it now...that and go see Spiderman

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Fri May 10, 2002 7:45 pm

Originally posted by Indy

Going over to the theater tonight to see if I can pick up tickets for it now...that and go see Spiderman

Have fun! I heard Spiderman is worth the money. So I heard.

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Fri May 10, 2002 8:00 pm

Im going to see it in movies, I just want the file just to have

mmm

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Fri May 10, 2002 8:11 pm

Mmmmmmmmm.....both illegal and stupid (in my humble opinion), but whatever.

GatoNanashi · Post by **GatoNanashi** » Fri May 10, 2002 8:13 pm

Well I dont have a problem with it, but I would rather watch the official on the big screen

XSeaNX · Post by **XSeaNX** » Fri May 10, 2002 9:40 pm

hey...there is nothing wrong with downloading the bootleg IMHO as long as you also pay to see it....I payed to see FATF in the theaters....then downloaded it on kazaalite...then bought it on dvd the second it came out...so I payed for the bootleg copy somewhere...they didnt lose money

Jin · Post by **Jin** » Fri May 10, 2002 10:55 pm

But some people don't go to the movies once they have d/l and watched the movie.

Gundamflare · Post by **Gundamflare** » Fri May 10, 2002 11:28 pm

well think about how many star wars fans George lucas already has...i mean a couple thousand people warezing wont matter :|

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Fri May 10, 2002 11:38 pm

What new Star Wars movie?

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Fri May 10, 2002 11:44 pm

Originally posted by Joint Chiefs Of Staff
What new Star Wars movie?

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Fri May 10, 2002 11:59 pm

Originally posted by Indy

yeah yeah yeah

Trying out the new Adobe Photoshop 7 are you?

j/k

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Sat May 11, 2002 12:01 am

Nah, I just like looking at the tickets

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Sat May 11, 2002 12:04 am

Originally posted by Indy
Nah, I just like looking at the tickets

Where did I put all those 'finger' jpeg's?

Yes I envy you. Actually I'm a bit surprised tickets are sold that far in advanced. Guess I'll find out tomorrow.

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Sat May 11, 2002 12:06 am

Originally posted by Joint Chiefs Of Staff

Where did I put all those 'finger' jpeg's?

Yes I envy you. Actually I'm a bit surprised tickets are sold that far in advanced. Guess I'll find out tomorrow.

Actually, when we took the kids to see Harry Potter last fall, we were able to buy the tickets 2 weeks in advance...took them to the opening night...

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Sat May 11, 2002 12:10 am

Originally posted by Indy

Actually, when we took the kids to see Harry Potter last fall, we were able to buy the tickets 2 weeks in advance...took them to the opening night...

I'm going to see it in the early afternoon. So I might beat the rush from the kids. Now if the kids had any sense they would skip school like my brothers and I did to see Return of the Jedi.

Hell I skipped work for the first time in 5 years to see The Phantom Menace. I was doing a job in New Hampshire and pulled off the nearest exit that had a movie theater. LOL

Turned my pager and cell phone off and stuck them in the van's equipment racks somewhere. My company thought I got in an accident. hehe

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Sat May 11, 2002 12:33 am

Did a little goggle searching and look what I found.

Here is a picture of the quality of the Star Wars EP2 bootleg.

Kind of a teaser. Now I really can't wait for Wednesday.

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Sat May 11, 2002 12:37 am

Originally posted by Joint Chiefs Of Staff
Did a little goggle searching and look what I found.

Here is a picture of the quality of the Star Wars EP2 bootleg.

Kind of a teaser. Now I really can't wait for Wednesday.

Err...I can't wait for Thursday!!!

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Sat May 11, 2002 12:39 am

Me neither!

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Sat May 11, 2002 12:41 am

Originally posted by Joint Chiefs Of Staff

Me neither!

STOP!! YOU'RE KILLING ME!!!

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Sat May 11, 2002 12:43 am

Originally posted by Indy

STOP!! YOU'RE KILLING ME!!!

hmmmm why is Yoda hanging his head low? And don't those clone dudes look like Storm Troopers?

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Sat May 11, 2002 12:47 am

Originally posted by Joint Chiefs Of Staff

hmmmm why is Yoda hanging his head low? And don't those clone dudes look like Storm Troopers?

I'm not listening....la la la la la la la....

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Sat May 11, 2002 12:51 am

Originally posted by Indy

I'm not listening....la la la la la la la....

I'm just making this stuff up. I have no clue what the plot of the movie is.

From the film clips boy does it look interesting. Hell it's Star Wars. You could throw two shaved poodles and a hairy guy in for good measure and it'll still be a great movie.

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Sat May 11, 2002 12:54 am

Originally posted by Joint Chiefs Of Staff

I'm just making this stuff up. I have no clue what the plot of the movie is.

From the film clips boy does it look interesting. Hell it's Star Wars. You could throw two shaved poodles and a hairy guy in for good measure and it'll still be a great movie.

Did you just say something?

j/k

Yep....it'll definitely rock....

fanta · Post by **fanta** » Sat May 11, 2002 1:38 am

Look at this article.

The media can be so pathetic sometimes...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... iracy_dc_4

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The countdown has begun to next week's opening of the latest "Star Wars" installment, but digital pirates have already launched their own clone attack by swapping bootleg copies of the blockbuster on the Internet.

As a result, up to a million people might have seen "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" before its much-hyped opening on Thursday, experts said on Friday, underlining the urgent nature of the piracy problem for Hollywood studios.

"Here you have what everyone expected to be one of the biggest films of the year, but it will already have been seen by a million people," said Bruce Forest, an independent media technology consultant and an expert on piracy.

Forest said he first detected the swapping of bootleg copies of the movie on Wednesday on the Internet Relay Chat, a network of global chat networks that enables peer-to-peer file-sharing, which is popular among programmers and hackers.

"Yesterday, it was absolutely maniacal. I was on the IRC all day and it was being put through all the different channel groups," said Forest, who noted the film was starting to trickle into more mainstream channels by Thursday morning.

Industry sources believe the bootleg version may have been made at a private screening of the "Star Wars" film, using a tripod-mounted digital camcorder pointed at the screen.

The problem is a growing one for Hollywood, with research firm Viant Corp. estimating that more than 350,000 copies of films are illegally downloaded each day.

Movie studios, fearing they could be next industry to suffer the sort of damage inflicted on the music business by free Internet song-swap service Napster (news - web sites), have banded together to form legitimate Internet movie ventures as well as launch a legal offensive against such pirates.

Lucasfilm Ltd, the producer of "Star Wars", and 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp. Ltd., which is distributing the film, referred calls to the Movie Picture Association, an industry trade group leading the fight against piracy.

'GROWING EPIDEMIC'

"This is a problem we're seeing more and more of ahead of openings large and small," said Richard Taylor, a spokesman for the trade group. "There's a growing epidemic of Internet piracy of motion pictures and its this kind of activity that stands as one of the obstacles to legitimate online offerings."

Industry observers were split on whether the bootlegging could hurt box office receipts during the movie's opening weekend.

Copies of "Spider-Man" for instance also premiered on the Internet ahead of its debut, which turned out to be the biggest opening of all time with $114 million in North American ticket sales in its first three days in release last weekend.

"This will likely not have any substantial impact on the box office revenues. This is a big theater movie and not one you're going to want to watch sitting around your PC on a Friday night," said P.J. McNealy, an analyst with GartnerG2.

McNealy said he believes the Web traffic could actually help drive the hype surrounding the film, but others, including the studios, believe the cloning could work the other way.

"If people don't like it, it may affect the box office. It's already being heavily discussed on chat rooms and what viewers say may convince those people who are sitting on the fence about seeing it," said Forest.

Many experts agreed the piracy could also bite into the sales of videos and DVDS, which typically account for a huge portion of a studio's profits on a movie.

"I would imagine that the availability of any motion picture on the Net for free would certainly displace some people who would have otherwise gone to the movie or bought the DVD," said Chuck Sims, an attorney has represented Hollywood studios.

"It's impossible to prove one way or another, but it's something that every economist would say. And if there is one copy out there, I'm not surprised there are many because the nature of the Internet is that they will get replicated."

Perspective · Post by **Perspective** » Sat May 11, 2002 3:29 am

05/10/2002 TELESYNC Star Wars Episode II *INTERNAL* HafVCD [2 CDs]

05/09/2002 TELESYNC Star Wars Episode II FTF [2 CDs]

if the mods dont like this..just let me know..or take it down sorry

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Sat May 11, 2002 3:48 am

Bah....this pirated copy was prolly made by a company exec and used as a teaser to get everyone all hyped up.....NOTHING BUT FREE ADVERTISING!

Everyone knows that everyone is still gonna go to see it on the big screen and buy it on video and DVD if and when it comes out.

Tryn · Post by **Tryn** » Sat May 11, 2002 6:04 am

I finished reading the Book for Attack of the Clones the day after it came out. It will be a Awesome Movie. Lots a action. Cant wait to See it.

Tryn

tao_jones · Post by **tao_jones** » Sat May 11, 2002 12:22 pm

is there any truth to the yoda fight scene

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Sat May 11, 2002 12:26 pm

Originally posted by tao_jones
is there any truth to the yoda fight scene

...what about it?

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sat May 11, 2002 12:56 pm

Originally posted by tao_jones
is there any truth to the yoda fight scene

Maybe be a bit more vague...?

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Sat May 11, 2002 1:01 pm

Yoda gets killed in EP2 hehe

*starting rumors*

fanta · Post by **fanta** » Sat May 11, 2002 4:57 pm

Well I know this...Yoda is now a computer graphic instead of a puppet.

Tryn · Post by **Tryn** » Sat May 11, 2002 5:39 pm

Originally posted by tao_jones
is there any truth to the yoda fight scene

Not to give anything away You'll get to see yoda use a lightsaber. If they follow the book it should be hell of a fight.

Tryn

Gandalf · Post by **Gandalf** » Sat May 11, 2002 6:27 pm

I saw spiderman...

gonna go see this

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Sat May 11, 2002 7:28 pm

Originally posted by Joint Chiefs Of Staff
Yoda gets killed in EP2 hehe

*starting rumors*

Well, that'd be a good rumor if it weren't for the fact that he already died in Return of the Jedi....wait, they did that with Spock in Star Trek...hmmm...

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Sat May 11, 2002 7:43 pm

This aren't really spoilers, since they were shown as part of a commerical (which I REALLY hope airs on TV) at the Star Wars Celebration a week ago or so.

If you think they're too spoiler-like, I'll remove them.