Reading about the stink the MPAA and RIAA are kicking up about the whole P2P bittorrent thing got me thinking. I wonder if what they are saying is actually true. Are movie makers actually being ripped off by bittorrent?

I found this website called The Numbers which has a whole lot of box office data on it.

However no API. And I wanted an API that would tell me whether to feel guilty about downloading a particular movie.

So I made this: Box Office Data API

You just have to enter the movie name and year (in the url bar – no form yet) and it will tell you (if the data is available) the production costs, the gross revenue, and the net profit the movie makers made.

Here’s an example for the movie District 9 also if you look at Titanic they made over 1.5 billion bucks profit on that piece of shit movie!

The search code isn’t very smart though so it may return some dodgey results. Still beta but still useful.

Well, I downloaded this bands music from Jamendo called Cynicism. And they’re pretty damn good. So I donated them $10. Sure doesn’t sound like much, but they get all of that money (Jamendo takes $1), and the record companies get none. So I’m happy, and a cool band gets some money for releasing their stuff for free on the internet.

P2P can work. Fuck the RIAA.

OK, so, just at work. This song comes on – Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSounds. What the fuck. This dude, singing about his sexy back, which is probably making young girls who idolize think about sex. And sex with him perhaps. What is this guy a paedophile? Is he working with paedophiles? Along with Britney and Christina teaching our kids that small skimpy see through clothes are “in”?

Read the lyrics, what a fucking seedy prick singing about this shit!? To kids!? Maybe to his girlfriend would be sweet as. If he didn’t have all that money people would think he was a creep!

What the fuck. And this is supposed “mainstream” music. From a christian or conservative view this music is fine because it is what the rest of the herd listens to, so it must be OK. If they actually had backbones and applied their standards to it this stuff would be banned from kids!

Anyway, I skipped it to Metallica – Of Wolf and Man, which, on the surface level, has lyrics like:

Off through the new day’s mist i run
out from the new day’s mist I have come
we shift
pulsing with the earth

and then some more like:

in wildness is the preservation of the world
so seek the wolf in thyself

Maybe its a big conspiracy and the RIAA is all run by seedy paedophiles that manufacture this stuff so they can root kids? Either way, I’m sure the big companies would hate you to “Preserve the world” as that would mean spending less money, and buying less of their overpriced, oversexxed shit!

But tell me… seriously, which would you rather your kids listen to?