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mrvid
join:2007-06-19
Levittown, NY
2 edits | MPAA somewhat unfair, caps will kill pirating anyway.. My feelings on this ...
First the RIAA plan.. this has unfair, unjust written all over it. I don't want to pay more cause someone else wants to break the law. Thats like taking 10 people in the courtroom and saying, this guy committed murder, but instead of giving him a life sentince will just split it across 10 people, and everyone including the murderer will get 10 years. -- unfair, will be argued down, I would hope.
The MPAA plan.. while the plan itself sounds fair, there is no way it will not end up punishing innocent people somewhere even if it is implemented correctly. What about programming that requires a license but it didnt download properly, or here's an example.. someone records a legally purchased .wmv, their comp crashes, they didn't know to burn the license to their disc along with the movie they -legally- purchased, they play it, it is found in violation, now they have a dimerit as being a pirate. Say what you want but once this plan is implemented, complaint will likely fall on deaf ears, I have complained constantly that .wma's purchased legally were supposed to play in standalone players but I still read of constant complaints similar to mine in which the player just returns a message that it cant play it cause its protected. I'm sure there are still plenty of players that don't read .wma licensing to determine if it is ok to play and that was the way it was supposed to work, it was supposed to be seamless. I shouldn't have to be a .wma expert to know how to handle them.
Other issues, once this is allowed, whats next, pictures, sounds, .pdf files, games, what about setups from angry movie hackers who give people a new virus (their pirated material).. this plan is great but, to me, it has mess written all over it.
Finally, who's really getting punished, the pirater or the ISP. It is likely you just handed a customer of the ISP right over to their competitor, and likely, in hatred, they will never come back to that ISP just to prove a point. I know someone who was wrongfully penalize for violating then AOL's TOS, unless there was no choice, she would never use them as her ISP again.
Likely, capping will discourage this anyway; i would imagine even pirates are not going to want to waste their range of enjoyable time online, then pay premium to pirate material. I feel even this is a better plan; 5% of capped monies goes to the MPAA & 5% to the RIAA since most material that exceeds the cap are usually media related. | |
| I am curious how the ISP becoming cop will work with the Usenet.
Wont the ??AA have to get the records from the Usenent provider who is using SSL and who may not be in the US? If I were a premium Usenet provider, I would move my servers overseas once this happens.
It seems to be that the ??AA had an antiquated business model and is just suing because of the fact they really are not needed anymore. Artists can sell direct through their websites.
I admit to downloading low budget movies I have never heard of it. As a result, I have actually purchased movies from directors of independent films because i got a feel for what their movies were like.
I also purchase anything to support it that is good.
I would have some sympathy for the ??AA if they would have given me some sort of credit on Albums I purchased on 8 Track, Vinyl, Cassette, and then CD. Now they are saying I cannot even copy my CD to the MP3 player legally.
Give the people what they want for a fair price and the majority will pay for it.
Lets face facts. You cant stop friends from loading out DVDs or having friends over to watch them. It is just going to happen.
It seems to me the **AA wants royalties paid for EVERY VIEWING/LISTENING of a songo or movie. It is all about excess greed.
If TWC was to send me a three strike letter then I would swtich to Earthlink which ironically enough goes through Time-Warner. Some broadband company in almost every area is going to turn the other way and allow people civile liberties.
The ??AA are entities that will be gone in 10 years hopefully forever. | |
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