"Traditional thinking tends not to offer solutions in times of change" Yet here we are arguing weather sharing is stealing and it's all on behalf of movie companies. Now I'm not for theft, nor am I anti sharing but we need to think differently on this one. Firstly SOPA and PIPA are huge smoke screens. If we started changing rules around personal privacy rights and outright censorship of the internet because "Air New Zealand" or "the warehouse" was losing money on some of its stock, there would be an uproar. But just because its the entertainment industry, it's OK ? C'mon . This is about far more than music companies losing money, this is about governments wanting the rights to see what YOU do on the internet. If you are doing something really bad, I don't have an issue with it, but WHo is to say whats bad. Remember they are killing Bradley Manning and Julian Assange this year, because of their evil doings on the net, Ok it's only just become evil to report war crimes where millions of civilians are dying because the US wants oil, thats OK, thats fine, but copy a CD and we'll take away your privacy and rights. Oh well. Thank goodness the NZ govt isn't in bed with the Americans. Right I'm off to an internet cafe with my wireless sniffer to download some creative commons movies before thats illegal too

I wonder if he has tried a google search for "Phone hacking" or is he one of those old school types that likes to sit down with a nice Newspaper.

"Just been to google search for mission impossible. Wow, several sites offering free links. I rest my case."

funny how movie trailers are released before the movie comes out, my first search gave me more than a page of movie trailer links (fancy that)

Murdock is wrong! It's all those keyboard manufacturers that are responsible. These devices are what allows us to type in the search terms to find pirated material!

Funny how he only targets Google and no other search engine. There are so many other holes in his argument, I don't know where to start!

Murdoch is a monkey.

When will the movie execs learn - if you make a good movie and market it right, it will be a hit at the box office and make you ridiculous amounts of money. If you make crap movies, you will make no money.

For example: Inception - great movie, cost a bit to make, wasn't marketed hugely, made massive profit. I saw it 3 times at the movies. Cars 2 - terrible, cost lots, didn't make a profit. I told everyone I know it sucked.

As for mission impossible, its already made a healthy profit according to IMDB and is still being shown in thousands of theatres.

People will pay to see a good movie in a theatre with friends because its a good experience. If you make bad movies, its no longer a good experience. There is a causal link between a movies QUALITY and its PROFITABILITY. I dare anyone to look at IMDBs top 250 and find a movie that has lost money (there may be 1 or 2, but I checked about 30 and couldn't find one...).

Not rocket science. To top this off, if you let me download the movie a week after its left the cinema, with all the copy protection you wanted and charged a reasonable fee (say $20), your movies would make even more money. Get out of the dark ages you old man.

Funny that a man whose fortune was built on passing on information about others, whether or not they wanted it known, should be the one complaining about another business doing much the same.. Oh hell' I forgot' our private lives ain't covered by copyright..

Great! As long as the media industry leaders think that the majority of pirated content can be found on Google (he calls them piracy leaders after all) then I can rest assured the actual majority sources are safe for some time yet! Yay!

Wouldn't it be funny if his phone got hacked? I doubt we would hear the end of it.

@Wayne #26 Copying information should NOT be illegal.

It's only illegal because governments want to control what people do with their own resources. How is it there business if I lend a book to a friend.

As long as it's not for profit, it should be legal to make copies.

And we've got people from Labour who support these nasty laws, and Clare Curran suggesting a levy on our internet access that is given to RIANZ! Stay out of our lives and off of our computers, government!

Google is a private company and they can do what they like. It isn't their job to trawl through the results and remove grey area links unless specifically asked to.

Btw if piracy is hurting the industry so badly then they are free to stop making films. It's called the free market. But last time I checked films were still raking in hundreds of millions of dollars.

If a film is hurt so badly because a few people downloaded it then it obviously had no chance to begin with.

http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-movies-of-2011-111223/

All high grossing. The lower ones were universally panned anyway.