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Renegade:
Oh, the irony is just...

...

Back. Peed my pants laughing again... Sigh... Guess I'm going to do a lot of laundry today.

Anyways, the irony is good for a laugh - censorship leads to piracy.

http://torrentfreak.com/movie-banned-by-censors-becomes-a-piracy-hit-with-kiwis-130725/

While there are often disputes over what age rating films should be awarded, New Zealand’s censors have just gone a step further by banning a horror film from any kind of public distribution. The censors say that Maniac, a serial killer flick starring Elijah Wood, is potentially “injurious to the public good” and cannot be shown in theaters or released on DVD. Maniac’s distributor says that the banning is an “invitation to piracy” and the signs are that’s exactly what’s happening.

maniacOne of the most obvious signs of censorship in entertainment is the ratings system. The US has the MPAA, the UK has the British Board of Film Censors and New Zealand has The Office of Film and Literature Classification. They all have an influence over who can see what and are often dragged into controversy as a result. For the Kiwi censors, yesterday was one of those days.
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More at the link. Good luck with your laundry. :P

40hz:
Best way to make something popular is to try outlawing it. 8)

That's why some movies fight to get an R rather than a PG rating. The lure of getting to see something "inappropriate" is a powerful incentive for the 14-25 year old market segment.

Renegade:
Best way to make something popular is to try outlawing it. 8)

That's why some movies fight to get an R rather than a PG rating. The lure of getting to see something "inappropriate" is a powerful incentive for the 14-25 year old market segment.
-40hz (July 26, 2013, 11:06 PM)
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I remember that.

Now? Not so much. I don't particularly care all that much about the ratings for myself.

Hollywood is incapable of producing anything as violent, vile, repulsive, and outright evil as I see in the news.

I do get tired of gratuitous sex though. It almost never adds anything important to the plot, and I have never seen a single scene where it couldn't have just been a fade to black and still had the same effect on the plot. There's lots of porn out there - why would I want to bother with crappy porn in the middle of a movie or show?

TaoPhoenix:

I wonder if we're drifting off topic in a way.
Exhibit A: "Film cannot be shown in theaters or released on DVD."

So what precisely is the "legit" revenue stream again? iTunes/other Only?

So if you have this movie which has *no legal way to be seen* (or vanishingly close etc etc) what part of Lost Sales are the result of "Piracy" again"?

Is this the way out? To take a film and *amp it up* so it *cannot be shown* ... and then therefore there are no lost sales!? Blah Blah Kiddies etc, but for everyone else of age, is that the loophole!?

Renegade:
^^ The irony is just twisted with this one.

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