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MPAA Argues Censorship is Good for Consumers
Also Good: DRM, High Prices, Limited Competition, Sharp Objects, Beatings...

Both the UK and Netherlands recently joined a growing list of countries who are being pressured by the entertainment industry to start filtering websites that provide access to copyrighted content. Ignored, as usual, is the fact the filters don't work (simply change your DNS provider), the efforts do nothing to stop piracy, and they very often wind up breaking core Internet functionality.

In defending the recent swath of censorship efforts they themselves have been responsible for, the MPAA recently took to their blog to try and argue that filtering the Internet is good for consumers:
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The UK ruling and indeed other recent ones in Austria, Belgium, Denmark and Finland as well as this one are positive developments that support not only the creative community but also consumers. The number of sites that offer legitimate creative content continues to increase dramatically. But to fully enable this growing sector to thrive and provide consumers with content when they want it, where they want it and how they want it, it is imperative that the content not be siphoned off and distributed illegally by those seeking to profit from the work and creativity of others.
Mike Masnick over at Techdirt deftly calls out the high amount of BS in the MPAA's claims, noting quite correctly that the MPAA spends much of its time trying to prevent or delay innovation (remember how much they loved the VCR?), while fighting new services that actually do provide content when and where consumers want it:
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...if the industry had its way, it would never have to innovate online at all, preferring greatly to live off of the old system of DVDs with crippling DRM. The only reason they were pushed to start innovating online was because of competition from the likes of The Pirate Bay, which finally caused them to agree to license platforms like Netflix, which has shown that it's actually quite easy to compete with The Pirate Bay if the MPAA and its studios would stop demanding ridiculous restrictions on content (and insanely high prices). Offer a good service at a good price, and The Pirate Bay simply can't compete.
You have to think that these new efforts to censor parts of the Internet will wane a bit once the folks behind the efforts realize they don't work. Or not.
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El Quintron
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Something the MPAA my need to examine

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr ··· _Process
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Shock and Denial
Intense Concern
Despair and Depression
Recovery

I think they're still in the shock and denial phase...

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Re: Something the MPAA my need to examine

If such actions do NOTHING to stop piracy, why are you even reporting such headlines?

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Re: Something the MPAA my need to examine

said by ITALIAN926:

If such actions do NOTHING to stop piracy, why are you even reporting such headlines?

What you said isn't related to anything I wrote. Please read my comment and try again.
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MPAA Argues Censorship is Good for Consumers

It makes no more sense than arguing that suicide is good for a consumer's health.

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Re: MPAA Argues Censorship is Good for Consumers

It is good for the consumer's health...from the standpoint of the insurance companies A dead consumer is a consumer that doesn't need an insurance payout!
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Re: MPAA Argues Censorship is Good for Consumers

said by AnonPerson:

It is good for the consumer's health...from the standpoint of the insurance companies A dead consumer is a consumer that doesn't need an insurance payout!

Especially because Suicide is usually a nonpayment clause in life insurance.

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said by AnonPerson:

It is good for the consumer's health...from the standpoint of the insurance companies A dead consumer is a consumer that doesn't need an insurance payout!

Sad but true.
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Lazy people who make a living off of hard workers!

NO....its better for consumers if the MPAA went out of bushiness!

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After awhile...

Eventually people will find something better and more productive to do with their time.
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Re: After awhile...

yes we the mpaa/riaa destroys freedom. plan and simple

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Re: After awhile...

Well let's see.. they represent (along with RIAA) a group of studios who have consistently and constantly defrauded their own creative talent and cooked the books to keep from showing actual monies earned or used lawyers to defer/delay paying off till the person suing died or ran out of money.

RIAA in particular reprents a group of companies who have consistently defrauded their artists and lied/scammed them at every turn. While insisting they are protecting the artists when they sue single mom's into bankruptcy.

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goodbye hollywood land

And the MPAA wonders why more and more of the movie business is moving off shore, and more and more of Hollywood is turning into a skidrow heap.
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Re: goodbye hollywood land

Never Thought of that, but you are correct, as with the RIAA, more Artist are going Private Label.

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said by Transmaster:

And the MPAA wonders why more and more of the movie business is moving off shore, and more and more of Hollywood is turning into a skidrow heap.

Didn't Avengers just have a record opening at the box office? Where is all this purported "damage" to the movie racket that they keep babbling about?

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Re: goodbye hollywood land

said by pnh102:

Didn't Avengers just have a record opening at the box office? Where is all this purported "damage" to the movie racket that they keep babbling about?

Shh... Don't give them any ideas.

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Didn't Avengers just have a record opening at the box office? Where is all this purported "damage" to the movie racket that they keep babbling about?

The live shots for the Avengers where filmed in New York, and New Mexico. Did you notice Avengers opened out side the US. After John Carter bombed they decided to play it safe.

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Re: goodbye hollywood land

Actually much of the movie was filmed in Cleveland.
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said by pnh102:

said by Transmaster:

And the MPAA wonders why more and more of the movie business is moving off shore, and more and more of Hollywood is turning into a skidrow heap.

Didn't Avengers just have a record opening at the box office? Where is all this purported "damage" to the movie racket that they keep babbling about?

this is what's feeding the MPAA, people need to stop their source of money, THEN they will go away. rent from the library instead.

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said by pnh102:

said by Transmaster:

And the MPAA wonders why more and more of the movie business is moving off shore, and more and more of Hollywood is turning into a skidrow heap.

Didn't Avengers just have a record opening at the box office? Where is all this purported "damage" to the movie racket that they keep babbling about?

The Hollywood accountants haven't had a chance to finish pushing things around to dump hundreds of millions of unrelated expenses onto the Avengers budget to on paper make it a net loss.

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said by Transmaster:

And the MPAA wonders why more and more of the movie business is moving off shore, and more and more of Hollywood is turning into a skid row heap.

Major Hollywood studios are also filming more and more stuff overseas and also moving other aspects of production there as well. So before they go accusing foreign site operators and pirates of being un-American, they should look in the mirror first.

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Re: goodbye hollywood land

The main reason why movie production is moviing off shore is to escape the cost of union workers. You would thing the union would be piss off at Obama for taking so much money from the people who are screwing them over.

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Re: goodbye hollywood land

said by Transmaster:

The main reason why movie production is moving offshore is to escape the cost of union workers.

Unions or not, when MPAA was trying to push SOPA/PIPA through, they kept going on how stopping piracy would help save American jobs. Yet they are the ones shipping jobs overseas just as many other industries did or do. That makes them just as bad as the unions, if not worse.
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Re: goodbye hollywood land

said by Pirate515:

said by Transmaster:

The main reason why movie production is moving offshore is to escape the cost of union workers.

Unions or not, when MPAA was trying to push SOPA/PIPA through, they kept going on how stopping piracy would help save American jobs. Yet they are the ones shipping jobs overseas just as many other industries did or do. That makes them just as bad as the unions, if not worse.

Naturally the MPAA would respond to your post here by claiming its the cost of Piracy forcing them to outsource. the MPAA knows spin better than the operator of a Gravitron at the county fair.

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said by Transmaster:

The main reason why movie production is moviing off shore is to escape the cost of union workers.

Isn't it funny how conservative Big Hollywood is when it is their money?
said by Transmaster:

You would thing the union would be piss off at Obama for taking so much money from the people who are screwing them over.

There's one simple explanation... they're dumb.
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Actually, they are escaping the cost of American workers... union and non-union. Perhaps we should all just work for a dollar a day and be done with it.
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do not forget this little gem
»www.fiercecable.com/stor ··· 12-05-11

While its not the MPAA, injecting ads into DVR fast forwarding will only assist piracy as people seek new ways to avoid commercials.

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RICO Laws

I would suggest that the RICO laws would be good for the MPAA and the RIAA if properly used.

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Re: RICO Laws

I would suggest that the RICO laws be used against the MPAA and the RIAA.

There fixed it for ya.

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MPAA = SATAN

Its true. Obviously. Greedy pinhead shareholders at the MPAA and their minions are agents of the devil incarnate. They might as well be riding Harleys and wearing full patch 1% scout badges like the corporate terrorists they are.

We Don't Want Them.
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...gosh

The MPAA has to be freaking kiddin..., gosh i wish their was a way to get rid of them completely they are no good for anyone or anything period
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Oh the irony...

when they want it, where they want it and how they want it

Funny how censorship, DRM, etc, have done exactly the opposite.

It has made it increasingly difficult for legitimate consumers to enjoy content when, where, and how they want.

Geographical restrictions and censorship have effectively crippled the "where" aspect.

Delays on new content such as those enforced onto Netflix and other streaming alternatives have crippled the "when".

DRM has severely crippled the "how", by limiting the formats and devices on which content can be viewed.

Fail, fail, fail!

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I see you haven't got it yet

You all just need to be educated on why what the MPAA does is good for everyone, you will learn.......
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continued

Also Good: DRM, High Prices, Limited Competition, Sharp Objects, Beatings...doing business with actual mexican cartel and giving the usa govt 10% stake in it....

yup no one can say the war on drugs isnt profitable anymore....
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Copy pasted

I have been considering just penning a decent reply to anything connected to the retards of the MPAA, and thus being able to speed up my reply process in the process.

But as I don't think the MPAA gives a flying f**k for anything not uttered by them, what would the point be in commenting.

Why am I commenting here even?

Finding it hard to give a rats ass about the MPAA and anything they support.

Finding it increasingly easy to just do what I want, and not give a damn. Much the way the MPAA does what it wants, and does not give a damn.