 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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