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A female RIAA spokesperson compared Napster and P2P music sharing to theft from a cable company.
The cable companies made thier money by stealing copyrighted material from Television Stations, including but not limited to Sports, Syndicated Programming, etc., and charging for its unlawful redistribution, effectively acting as a "pimp." Then they inserted their own, further stealing money from broadcasters.
When municipalities found they could tax cable and satellite TV, some banned outdoor TV antennas. Now that government was happy, cable and satellite owners sponsored bills to make cable and satellite theft a crime - even though THEY made their fortunes by theft.
So comes the internet, P2P, etc. The government allowed it. Besides, unless you personally confess (duress doesn't count), who's to say you're non-WEP WiFi wasn't compromised, your cable modem's IP wasn't sniffed and cloned, or?
Lawyers passed bills to keep people from talking about law - maybe RIAA will pass a law against humming or whistling a song! | |
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1 edit | "The cable companies made thier money by stealing copyrighted material from Television Stations, including but not limited to Sports, Syndicated Programming, etc., and charging for its unlawful redistribution, effectively acting as a "pimp." Then they inserted their own, further stealing money from broadcasters."
Ummm..The cable companies started out as small individual groups in towns that had poor TV recieption. They got together financially to put an antenna system in a location where they could get adequate signals, shared the cost of distribution/maintenance and then amplified them and sent them to the homes of the group.
This allso applied to FM radio signals, which is why most CATV systems carried FM also.
CATV stands for COMMUNITY ANTENNA TV.
Needless to say, after such groups grew larger, it was turned into a business, usually by being bought out, but not allways. If you take a tripo through the country today, you find that most small towns have cable, most of which are small local providers who are true to their roots, especially in the midwest and west.
And, by federal law, municipalities cannot bam outdoor antennas, nor can associations ban satellite dishes, because the FCC has ruled that consumers have a right to have such things for the free flow of information to the public. | |
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