Ho Hum, Yawns VARIETY - "FIVE MILLION COPIES PIRATED"

What's the message from VARIETY, the show biz "Bible?"

It's that piracy is alive and well, and movie studios are run by rich fat cats and twat-flashing slutty actresses and stupid fart-brain actors who make WAY too much money.

They aren't too appalled that a major new movie LOST five million potential sales.

You know what Spielberg and DeNiro and Scorcese and DiCaprio and Stallone and Eastwood are saying at their cocktail parties? At their brainstorming meetings? At their $1000 a plate dinners to raise money for their favorite do-nothing politicians?

Apparently it's a prideful, "Hey, my movie was bootlegged FIVE MILLION TIMES..." and "The trades say that the torrents have ALL my movies." Woo hoo!

If you accept it...you condone it. You're telling the world: "No problem!"

The article isn't exactly crying about how a movie was pirated. There's sort of a "gee, imagine if there was no piracy...would this movie still be doing badly?" But it's not a major concern, is it?

So, the message sent by VARIETY is that everybody's doing very, very well. The piece isn't, remotely, a warning sign that the studios should get the FBI into this and bust the torrents. Nah.

By not reporting this as appalling, Variety is condoning.

Take a look at two stores side by side. One of them has a security guard and tags on the merchandise. The other has no guard, no electronic equipment at the door to "sense" stolen merchandise being smuggled out. So what do you think? You have to think that THIS store is doing so well, a little shoplifting ain't gonna hurt. They can afford it.

So you read an article like this...and you get the idea "Oh well...there's piracy, we all accept it...we're not looking to ways to safeguard the merchandise or punish the guilty..."

Can you imagine a newspaper writing up a rape or a murder and not citing stats if it shows that rape is up 10% or that there have been more murders than ever? If you act like it's an isolated incident, and that it's just another day's news...nobody's going to care very much.

Is VARIETY pointing out these figures and demanding that politicians take action? That the FBI block torrent sites? Nope.

The message is: "Meh...we can afford it."

It's the same message dimwit cunts like Jennifer Lawrence are sending: "Well, yeah, we're a bunch of hedonistic sluts. We do naked selfies. Our boyfriends photograph us with jizz on our faces. Just as we happily strip topless in every movie, we have no morality in real life and it's no big fucking deal."

Piracy? Invasion of privacy? SO?