Australian actor and director Joel Edgerton has spoken out in favour of tighter controls on internet service providers that profit indirectly from film piracy.
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Speaking while on promotional duties for his new film, The Gift, Edgerton said penalties should apply to those higher up the film industry food chain.
“The real onus is on companies who are the stream in which some of those downloads are floating down. I think they have the ability to police and control that stuff and I think they should,” he said.
“Anybody who is condoning it at a higher level because they are profiting from it, they are the ones who should be rapped on the knuckles, rather than just me because I’m holding a DVD that I bought for $1 in Bali.”
Australians are among the world’s worst offenders when it comes to downloading illegally pirated films, including the well-received Aussie zombie horror Wyrmwood, which had the dubious honour of becoming one of the world’s most torrented films.
The federal government recently pushed through an amendment to the copyright bill aimed at curtailing illegal downloads. Edgerton said he believed it was important to educate people about the effect piracy has on movie-making.
“I feel devastated for people when they are about to release a movie and then you find out it’s been pirated and already downloaded,” he said. “All that work that has gone into it – it’s such a shame.”
Australian actor and director Joel Edgerton has spoken out in favour of tighter controls on internet service providers that profit indirectly from film piracy.The Gift review – a sly thriller of social transgressions In an impressive and unnerving directing debut, Joel Edgerton applies the same quiet assurance and attention to detail he’s displayed in his acting projects Read moreSpeaking while on promotional duties for his new film, The Gift, Edgerton said penalties should apply to those higher up the film industry food chain.“The real onus is on companies who are the stream in which some of those downloads are floating down. I think they have the ability to police and control that stuff and I think they should,” he said.“Anybody who is condoning it at a higher level because they are profiting from it, they are the ones who should be rapped on the knuckles, rather than just me because I’m holding a DVD that I bought for $1 in Bali.”Australians are among the world’s worst offenders when it comes to downloading illegally pirated films, including the well-received Aussie zombie horror Wyrmwood, which had the dubious honour of becoming one of the world’s most torrented films.The federal government recently pushed through an amendment to the copyright bill aimed at curtailing illegal downloads. Edgerton said he believed it was important to educate people about the effect piracy has on movie-making.
“I feel devastated for people when they are about to release a movie and then you find out it’s been pirated and already downloaded,” he said. “All that work that has gone into it – it’s such a shame.”
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