Not wanting to limit it's lawsuits to little old ladys and Girl Scouts, the MPAA is suing a Grandfather whos grandson downloaded four movies. Three of which the family already owned.

The MPAA is suing because Grandpa refused to submit to their blackmail of $4,000. They are seeking damages in upwards of $600,000!!!

Once again they trotted out the sob-story about how much money they're loosing to "illegal" movie downloads. How is it illegal to download a movie you already own on DVD?

I wonder when they'll come up with a formula for determining the per-video-frame value of a movie?

Hmmm, let's see...

30 frames per second. An average movie these days is about an hour and forty-five minutes long or one-hundred and five minutes. That equals 6,300 seconds. At 30 frames per second, that's 189,000 frames. Multiply that times four (the kid downloaded four movies): 756,000 frames total. Divide that by $600,000 and you get about $0.79 per frame or about $150,000 per movie. Good thing the kid didn't download Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Trilogy!

DAMN! I never realized how much of a deal I was getting when I buy those $5 DVDs at Walmart! In light of this, I wonder how much I can get for them on e-Bay?

Click here to read the Associated Press article.

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