Nicholas Chartier, the producer of 2009’s Hurt Locker, has been notoriously outspoken against file sharing. The production company behind the film, Voltage Pictures, has fired up a lawsuit against some 50,000 people who downloaded the movie illegally. But Chartier doesn’t want to stop with them. He wants their kids in jail so that these filesharing types learn their lesson.

He recently responded to an email from a Boing Boing reader who said he would boycott films from Chatier and Voltage Pictures because of the suit with this:

Hi Nicholas, please feel free to leave your house open every time you go out and please tell your family to do so, please invite people in the streets to come in and take things from you, not to make money out of it by reselling it but just to use it for themselves and help themselves. If you think it’s normal they take my work for free, I’m sure you will give away all your furniture and possessions and your family will do the same. I can also send you my bank account information since apparently you work for free and your family too so since you have so much money you should give it away… I actually like to pay my employees, my family, my bank for their work and like to get paid for my work. I’m glad you’re a moron who believes stealing is right. I hope your family and your kids end up in jail one day for stealing so maybe they can be taught the difference. Until then, keep being stupid, you’re doing that very well. And please do not download, rent, or pay for my movies, I actually like smart and more important HONEST people to watch my films.

best regards,
Nicolas Chartier
Voltage Pictures, LLC

You totally aren’t throwing gasoline on the fire there Chartier. Yes, I’d imagine your fan base will grow by the hundreds of thousands after reading this. I mean, how could they not respect such a balanced and well-said argument as this. Surely, everyone thinks a murderer’s children should hit the ol’ shock chair right along with him, right? We can’t have murderous offspring running around can we? No, we most certainly can not.

What a jackass.