> “Creators and makers should have the right to determine how and where the work they own is distributed. Popcorn Time has no legitimate purpose; it only serves to infringe copyright thereby preventing creators from earning money for their work. The film and TV industry is comprised of hundreds of thousands of men and women working hard behind the scenes to bring the vibrant, creative stories we enjoy to the screen. Content theft undermines that hard work and also negatively impacts the audience’s experience online by often directing them to low-quality versions of movies and shows or sites infected with malware and viruses.” - Stan McCoy, Stan McCoy, President and Managing Director of the MPA in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The initial line of reasoning in this quote is flawed. Creators and makers don't have the right to pre-determine judgement of a particular piece of software or the possible use of that software by users based on some claim to "rights". It's the pre-judging part that is wrong here, not the simulated assertion to ownership of the content in a hypothetical violation. Judging my use of a particular piece of software before I use it is stupid, narrow minded and factually blaming. Would they also limit my use of an operating system to run the software? Or a computer to run the OS? No. Why? Because Apple makes lots of money doing those things.

Because this line of reasoning is flawed, it's not a big surprise Stan quickly drops into bias hacking the audience by making arguments that Popcorn Time "negatively impacts audience experience" and contains "malware and viruses". Given the fact they are willing to spread falsehoods is an indication they themselves are in cognitive dissonance over the whole thing.

Not that they don't spread falsehoods about their own content all the time to us via commercials, billboards, flyers, ads on websites, reviews, etc., etc.

I'd like to see the creative industry move toward an Open Source model over the coming years in an attempt to move us away from these confrontational rationalizations which are being driven by increasing demands around revenue. Perhaps this Open Source model would also allow us to better illustrate the problem of mass production of low quality movies and content. These low quality movies "have no legitimate purpose and only serve to infringe on moviegoer's rights, thus preventing them from enjoying their night and wasting their money on yet another crappy flick".