Re: 92-Year Old Veteran Pirates Movies to Help Soldiers
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Originally Posted by Zee
Piracy is rampant in the US military.
Because the MPAA refuses to deliver entertainment to troops overseas, soldiers are forced to pirate.
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But they don't refuse to deliver entertainment to the troops. Page two of the NY Times article you linked to states:
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And while Mr. Strachman’s movies were given to soldiers as a form of charity, studios do send military bases reel-to-reel films, which are much harder to copy, and projectors for the troops overseas.
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Even if they didn’t provide them in what sense are soldiers “forced to pirate” as you put it?
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