Richard Humphrey is an inmate in Ohio and recently he noticed something at the
prison that he's at it turns out that the prison with allegedly showing
pirated films like right along and willful Wall Street
now we know this because he actually ran two different web sites that shared
pirated material
so he felt that it was a lot of the critical for them to put him in prison
for twenty nine months
for having these pirated up web sites when at the same time the prison that
supposed to rehabilitate him
is also showing pirated films yeah
so he what's interesting is he actually I notified it notified the prison word
about this
and she awarded I should say and she acknowledged it
%uh so she said that hey you know what I'm noticing that this is an issue and
I'm gonna look into it we'll see what happened
so I like that that response occurred but what do you think about prison
showing pirated material I know why you're
saying that the new hideout because I had this reputation as being
okay with piracy another somali type the digital type
I am NOT going to implicate myself anymore than I already have
but I I will say I understand why the prisons are doing this
if I had to guess in this is based on new factual information but if I had to
guess I would say
that the prisons entertainment budget is probably flatten
and thing is like a conservative will hear me say that
and in here that I don't like that and they'll think we know
fuck them they went to jail they don't deserve anything
screw making a living hell for the next ten years which is fine
unless you were a prison guard who has to deal with
angry unruly prisoner well just might be a little bit easier to deal with
day-to-day
if they can watch right along or will fall through which I don't see a lot of
their worth watching but I'm
yeah I think that maybe we could give a little bit of money the prison so they
don't feel the need to pirated materials
yeah raising we'll let me look we have so many issues with pres is the united
states that you know this
this is not high on the list of priorities but
it got me kinda goes to the larger issue what prisons are supposed to be for and
how they usually fail at it and it's supposed to be
for rehabilitation right of course there's the Omen a punishment I'm trying
to I'm not trying to discount that
but it's crazy that you're trying to rehabilitate some 14 running
website to pirated material and by rehabilitating them you show them
pirated movies yeah so its it shows you would she ok
the whole notion a rehabilitation is in the US but in also
Kathleen believe myself but also kinda what a joke the piracy laws are like
I understand the feeling is stealing but I think that a lot of people watching is
a going gonna say
the in just feels different it feels it feels less like there's a victim like
there's a theoretical but the latest stab someone
that person got that there are victims but if you duplicate materials and
create a new one
it does seem a little bit less like traditional crime
like I don't think the these prisoners by the way are unlikely to go to
theaters and watch these movies
I would assume they're not gonna get up to do that and so is any revenue being
lost
I mean what I say what I also wonder about is
does it make sense to put someone away for twenty nine months for running these
web sites like again
yeah it does seem crazy yet twenty nine months seems a little long for nine
nonviolent offense and I'm not trying to say that what he did was right
but there needs to be another way of dealing with the situation like
we should only put violent dangerous people away behind bars for everyone
else
we should try to rehabilitate them right and by the way we should be real
billeted in our prisons as well I'm not trying to get a philosophical difference
we have the money in this country do not agree right
good right I mean remember sixty-five percent of people in the United States
agree with the death penalty
yeah so I think that were in the minority when it comes to the whole
notion I love
let's be nice to our prisoners and rehabilitate them because we want them
to be productive members of society
not step out and kill another person exactly an interview but there needs to
be a solution that there there is a solution and the solution is for the
the movie industry to create a reasonable affordable
sensible way for people get a cut n and that's not some crazy pipe dream
like why does anyone pay for Netflix when they can just
pirate the movie is the paper Netflix because not insanely overpriced
yet it's convenient just put everything on Netflix or buddha or Amazon Hulu or
whatever
people sup pirating if they don't have to pay you know eighteen dollars plus
popcorn to watch a movie
if you make it reasonable people will respond reasonably and I'll stop
pirating
will also when you look at how expensive it is to go to the movies these days and
then you also look at stagnant wages mean you kind of understand the
perspective the people that you pirate the material