Australian IT reports that Rick McCallum is at it again.

STAR Wars producer Rick McCallum told a Melbourne audience that the fight against P2P swapping of films was as important as the war on terrorism.

Wow… if VCR was just the Boston Strangler, imagine what Ossama can do for the movie industry…

Piracy is bad. Fine. Point taken. But smell the coffee: in the 80’s, people now could watch movies at home and you didn’t figure out a way to make a buck out of it until the courts told you to stop whining and to deal with it. And you’re better off with it now.

Now people can watch movies without even going out to the videostore. No inventory to maintain, bandwitdh is cheap, pirating movies is even more a pain in the butt than copying VHS tapes ever was, people won’t bother (except for bragging rights) if they have an alternative. No need for it to have foolproof security, just simple and convenient.

Oh, and back to terror-stuff: I happened to catch an old Rambo on TV the other night. Funny how the Afghan freedom fighters were the good guys then when they were blowing up the russians. And how many movies were made exploiting that theme. I’m not even going into the Disney-taking-Stevenson’s-Pirates-to-the-big-screen deal. Are pirates the good or the bad guys now? Does it depends who gets the loot?