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4 edits | It's all about graft This country runs on graft and payoffs. Every Govt. official has their hand out for graft, the record and movie and broadcast industry supply graft and they get whatever laws they want passed. The courts are full of judges who are tecnophobic morons that still read newspapers for their information. If I showed them an AAA battery and said: "This promotes infringement" (with a suitable graft payoff) they'd probably outlaw AAA batteries!
Patent and copyright laws are running amok, fair use is in the toilet, what's next? TV sets with credit card slots on them?
None of this is about 'protecting' anything but a few industries that refuse to change their way of doing business. Does anyone realize that Napster is almost TEN YEARS OLD? These industries have had TEN YEARS to come up with a new business model and their response is to sue everyone in sight that tries to make them change! If they had their way there would BE no Internet!
Finally, think about how much technology has changed in the past 10 years. Ten years ago, we had Windows 95 running on 486 computers with 24 megs of RAM and 2 gig drives. Everyone used dial up connections-with 28.8 kbps if you were lucky! AOL was bigger then the Internet. Look where we are now-and how far we've come. NOW look at the movie and record industries-who still want us to come to THEM and pay inflated prices to see a movie ONCE or to pay inflated prices for a big, stupid moving disk that holds 14 songs!
Should I have to mention that those stupid CDs played just fine on that ten year old computer-or for that matter the Windows 3.1 computer before them?
They have found their allies in the elected officials who LOVE having their palms greased! It's a lot cheaper to throw 100 grand to a few corrupt pols and judges then to re-do your business model.
Of course, ten years ago, no one had heard of HDTV or IPod or MP3 or Satellite Radio or online radio or DSL or broadband or wifi or DVD or Myspace or Google or, or, or....
And if you could afford a cell phone then it was the size of a lunch box and full of static during the call...
These are all things that have happened while the RIAA and MPAA just sat there on their ever widening A$$e$-paying off anyone that could help them keep their 'buggy whip' like business model!
Has it occurred to anyone that while the RIAA, MPAA. US politicians and courts continue fighting to keep us back in the mid 1980s media/technology wise, that the rest of the world is passing us by? We're more and more losing our technological 'edge' and instead becoming more and more irrelevant?
These are the typical reactions of American companies these days: SHORT TERM GAINS and LONG TERM LOSSES!
The problem is that we CAN'T do this any more. We're already treading water as it is....soon we'll be drowning!
Come to think of it, it's too bad for AOL that they never considered graft. If they had just bribed a few judges and pols, there'd likely BE no USA Internet and we'd all still be dialing into our local AOL portal for everything. Too bad, AOL! |
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| The US is pro-business and anti-consumer nearly all the time except if it affects people's healths or a business seriously intrudes into it's customer's privacy.
I'm sure the MPAA never expected to get a penny from TorrentSpy. They're quite happy to just have it shut down.
Problem for the MPAA is that foreign based torrent sites don't come under US court control where they usually win. Take PirateBay for example. Up and running despite literally years of the MPAA/RIAA attempts to shut it down because Swedish laws are not so pro-business as the US courts are. And if PirateBay ever shuts down, torrent servers will simply move to other harder to reach locations. Pay some ZANU-PF party members some cash and I'm quite sure you could run a torrent site from Zimbabwe without any problem at all since the ruling party there is so anti-West. I'm sure there would be some Zimbabweans or Zambians or whoever quite happy to make some bucks on advertising to host a torrent site, as long as their local government leaders get their hands greased. Ultimately, the MPAA/RIAA will only force torrent sites into hard to prosecute locations. Torrenting itself will never die, in my opinion. Heck, Cuba is supposed to be on-line in a pretty serious way if Venezuela's Chavez's Caribbean fiber lines are successfully laid. Think Cuba gives a flying rip about the MPAA or the RIAA? They'd probably let a torrenting site run just to stick their thumb in the eyes of US courts, government, and businesses like the MPAA/RIAA. |
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 bentand IngaPremium
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What business model would you suggest they adopt? The Give It Away For Free Because Everyone's Going To Steal It Anyway model?
They have changed with the times. Last time I checked, iTunes and other pay for content business are doing very well. It's not lack of legit availability that is driving piracy, it's the ease of stealing.
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 FiLPremium
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Silver Spring, MD | reply to prestonlewis
I'm in agreement with most of what you said, except for the health concerns.
... and for that part of my disagreement, all I have to say is McNugget's, anyone? |
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Silver Spring, MD | reply to bent
Blanket statement. I don't want DRM audio files. Why do I need to pay a premium for non-DRM music?
Why is it ok for businesses to create problems, then charge premiums to eleviate said problems?
And what are we stealing? The details matter a lot when it comes to discussing copyrights. How have I stolen anything if its being given to me freely, over the air? I DL a show aired to me for free, and keep it for my own viewing pleasure, an that is stealing? What law have I broken.
In conclusion, down with the **AA's! |
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4 edits | reply to bent
said by bent:What business model would you suggest they adopt? The Give It Away For Free Because Everyone's Going To Steal It Anyway model? They have changed with the times. Last time I checked, iTunes and other pay for content business are doing very well. It's not lack of legit availability that is driving piracy, it's the ease of stealing. Itunes and others flourish IN SPITE of them! IIRC, The RIAA has actually threatened Itunes with lawsuits numerous times.
By the way, I understand that Apple spent THREE MONTHS developing Itunes..Apple was able to do in 3 months what the RIAA hasn't been able to do in TEN YEARS!!! Amazon too!
And, YES the Give Away model actually seens to WORK! Just ask Nine Inch Nails. Even Metallica is doing it. Can you imagine? The very trolls who shilled for the RIAA now realize that the RIAA was WRONG!
Too bad the RIAA isn't as smart as Lars!
IIRC, the MPAA tried to make movie rentals illegal. In the late eighties the RIAA WAS ABLE to make CD rentals a federal crime!
YET...history has proven the MPAA 100% WRONG about movie rentals-in fact, it's become one of their biggest profit centers! I wonder how many BILLIONS of rental income the RIAA members have lost over the past two decades due to their own STUPIDITY!
Napster went to the RIAA EIGHT YEARS AGO and offered to MAKE THEM a pay for download service. They responded by suing Napster out of existance!
The biggest thing since the Edison cylinder was offered to them ON A PLATINUM PLATTER and they're either too STUPID or GREEDY to take it!
You are 100% WRONG in your statement that the RIAA wants ANYTHING but their current distribution model!
Finally, your I question your use of Thoreau's quote-your statements above it run quite contrary to it! |
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Yeah, let's outlaw McDonald's from operating because a few fatasses with no self control eat there every day.
I eat at McDonald's an average of once every two weeks, and I am not obese nor in poor health. |
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Rego Park, NY | reply to prestonlewis
Lol, the PirateBay isn't ONLY in Sweden either. To shut them down COMPLETELY would require the **AA's to sue across continents, and bribe quite a few governments overseas. As if the Swedes weren't hard enough............ |
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