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 TxRoadDawgWe're Gonna Ride Forever
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Warner Robins, GA | Some Facts Once upon a time the Mpaa CLAIMED vcr's were going to destroy the financial profit for the movie industry, in the real world as they became cheaper a whole new revenue stream was created for hollywood renting tape copies especially during the post theater pre tv movie of the week time frame
Once upon a time the Mpaa went to court in California claiming the release of the DeCSS dvd "encryption" stripper program was going to be the death of DVD's, in the real world dvd disk and player sales has continually risen.
Fact, despite all the doomsday claims of piracy movies continually gross in the hundreds of milions each year, musicains still sell millions of cd's. I have NEVER heard of either a record or film company going bankrupt from piracy. I would have loved to have heard that asshole from metalica, Lars Ulrich, say EXACTLY how much royalty money each song traded on napster was worth to the BAND versus his RECORD COMPANY.
My advice folks, call your senators and congressmen, let em know what a mistake this bill really is. As much as we all have cursed MS, intel, the oems with non stard hardware we couldnt upgrade, and all the other parts of the dark side of the tech industry, we cant just rely on them to fight this battle for us. its OUR entertainment, its OUR right to be entertained how we chose to be. I see no benefit to ANY consumer forced to puchase 3,4,5 or more versions of the same song to listen to it in a stereo, a computer cd drive, a mp3 walkman, or other media players that our out there.
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| said by TxRoadDawg:
Once upon a time the Mpaa CLAIMED vcr's were going to destroy the financial profit for the movie industry
They also went to court, and got the Ninth Circuit to declare the VCR illegal. We got it back by a 5-4 decision at the Supreme Court level. None of the 5 is left. Of the 4, one is chief justice of the Supreme Court. Hunker down and prepare for the Digital Dark Ages.
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My advice folks, call your senators and congressmen, let em know what a mistake this bill really is.
They KNOW people don't like it. They don't care. | |
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