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Re: RIAA/MPAA said by Cheese:Give it up already, you look like fools and continue to look like fools. You only serve to drive piracy further into the ground and then where will your money come from?  And therein lies the problem. They don't care how they are perceived by the general public. What you and I think is irrelevant to them as long as their lapdogs in Washington continue to do as they're told. |
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 CheesePremium
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kudos:1 | said by digitalfreak:said by Cheese:Give it up already, you look like fools and continue to look like fools. You only serve to drive piracy further into the ground and then where will your money come from? And therein lies the problem. They don't care how they are perceived by the general public. What you and I think is irrelevant to them as long as their lapdogs in Washington continue to do as they're told. Sad but true. |
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They don't care because people bitch and moan but they continue to buy. These companies continue to rake in massive amounts of money which allows them to maintain their whores in washington and their lobbying machine.
If large numbers of people would actually sacrifice what they desire and not buy anymore the industry would quickly be decimated and their behavior would change so fast it would make your head spin like a top. Take their money away and their power in washington evaporates.
But if people actually gave up going to movies, dumped cable and satellite, stopped worshipping rich vapid celebrities etc. their lives would be devoid of meaning, their heads would explode and the earth would spin off its axis.
So people will continue to buy and moan and these companies will continue to rake in the money, laugh all the way to the bank and not give a shit. |
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join:2005-03-19 | just so you know I saved what you wrote and plan on referring to it anytime I think about getting cable or satellite. Thanks.
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Whenever people buy less of their products, their response isn't "how can we react to these market forces." They say "Piracy is increasing! We need more powers to fight them!" Only after the "give us more power" option is exhausted do they try actually reacting to market forces.
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| That's a legitimate point.
It's all about scale.
These companies remain very profitable.
If the scale is modest enough that it doesn't really hurt but is a minor irritation it isn't going to have the desired effect and it won't undermine their lobbying muscle. It's more like poking the tiger with a stick, which only makes it more aggressive.
I think the effect would be different if people's behavior changed on a large enough scale. It has to be a scale that causes major harm to their business today, not a scale that simply causes them to worry about the future.
We have not reached the tipping point where enough people have realized that they don't need to pay entertainment companies to fill up their free time. |
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