Pirated movie downloads offered as Zango sweetener

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Jodo Kast

$3 mil to settle? No problem! #

Posted Monday 18th August 2008 20:02 GMT

Nice deal

A J Stiles

Bgeh! #

Posted Monday 18th August 2008 20:02 GMT

Freakin' Windows users! If they're still using it after all the warnings, they deserve everything they get.

Anyway, I bet the movie is so degraded in quality that it contains little enough of the original source material as to fall within the bounds of Fair Dealing, even if it doesn't contain enough original material (punters coughing, munching popcorn, getting up and going to the toilet) to count as a new work in its own right.

David Wiernicki

@A J Stiles #

Posted Monday 18th August 2008 21:03 GMT

Nice to see someone going after Webster Phreaky's world title in the Extremist Nonsequitur.

Fatman

Zango needs to have its @$$ sued #

Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 03:21 GMT

Hey MPAA (Motion Picture Ass. of America), looking for someone to sue, then go after Zango.

I would not cry if you put them out of business.

Pierre

Flame on! #

Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 03:21 GMT

Windows' software management sux moose balls, that is a given. Anyone saying otherwise is a [ft]ool. Here is a simple experiment for those that are not convinced:

1- Boot Windows

2- Install a few apps

3- Uninstall said apps (using MS management tool)

4- Have a look at your registry

5- Cry

And this is only for "legit" apps... now try the same with applications that use a "cowboy" installer, and you'll cry as early as step 3. RegCleaner and a few other 3rd party administration apps can be used as temporary fixes for those who don't want to use regedit. A good old *nix OS is a more permanent solution.

However, Zango is a piece of smelly droppings. So Win users who install it are just begging for trouble. Twice.

Zmodem

meh #

Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 07:52 GMT

might as well pay £5.50 for the cinema viewing. having ripped dvds all over the place is scabby

Anonymous Coward

@David #

Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 07:52 GMT

pretty funny you use Zango don't you.

Pascal Monett

Why is this surprising ? #

Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 07:52 GMT

Scum partnering with criminals is normal as the sun rising in the morning.

Daniel

Grow up #

Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 09:34 GMT

Offhand, I can't come up with a more childish set of phrases than "freetard" and "paytard" in common use at El Reg. STOP IT, DAMNIT!

-Daniel (Dead Vulture because this needs to DIE)

Fraser

@Pierre #

Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 09:34 GMT

I'll bite...

I'll just install something on linux then, easy - I'll apt-get it, oh hang on wrong linux, no, I'll rpm it, nah, not that either, possibly I'll yum it, nope, an install script on the CD/download? No? Oh, I've got to download the code, compile and install it myself. I've changed my mind, I don't want the software that I've just installed, I'll just run the uninstaller script, now where is that, oh the authors didn't bother with one...

This is six of one, half a dozen of the other, Windows installer scripts aren't all perfect, *nix ones aren't either, it's hardly the fault of the OS manufacturers.

Anonymous Coward

@Zmodem #

Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 09:34 GMT

£5.50, where are you living? having gone the other day to see it in London and it was £19 a ticket, i think even now its around £13-£15 for the West End.

Dan

They'll still be disaapointed 'cos #

Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 09:39 GMT

there aren't any decent of the new Batman film out there yet.

Anonymous Coward

Oh I like that... #

Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 09:45 GMT

"We view services that don't actually host content as if they were a search engine."

Nice one. "They're not search engines, but we're going to tell you they are." That's alright then.

A J Stiles

@ Fraser #

Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 09:57 GMT

The "uninstaller script" is actually part of the Makefile:

$ sudo make uninstall -C /usr/src/foo-1.2.34

But hey, why let the facts get in the way of a good whinge? And if you want a repository with a good range of packages, try Debian or Gentoo, not some RPM-based, back-bedroom distro.

Anonymous Coward

Cinema Tickets #

Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 09:57 GMT

MK is about £7, and the cinemas are rubbish. Hatfield was also about £7 also rubbish, lets not even get onto the price of drink/food/sweets.

And all too see one movie once, nope I'll wait for the DVD release by which time I'll of forgotten all about it, so I'll wait till it's in the £5 deal bin at the local co-op.

Anonymous Coward