MPAA Lobbying for Home Theater Regulations (satire)

BBSpot ^ | 11/27/06 | Scott Small

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Anyone with a home theater would need to pay a $50 registration fee with the MPAA or face fines up to $500,000 per movie shown.

Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too.

[JAWs]

Jack Valenti, keep outta my home!

[Clara Lou]

The MPAA has lost its mind.

[Texas_Jarhead]

THey are outta they freakin mind.

[Tamar1973]

"Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That's a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends," said Glickman. "Ideally we expect each viewer to have their own copy of the DVD, but we realize that isn't always feasible. The registration fee is a fair compromise.

What a load of liberal, socialist crap. As long as I don't charge a fee to the folks coming to my house to watch the DVD, I can play whatever, whenever, with whoever I bloody well please.

[nhoward14]

THIS IS SATIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Felis_irritable]

I'm screwed...

I was looking for the Onion link, but, like, they aren't really series, are they?

[Lexington Green]

This is satire. Right?

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Yes ! I realized too late. Sorry.

[theBuckwheat]

The folks who support the MPAA were quite verbal when they were worried that the extremist John Ashcroft wanted to regulate what they did in the privacy of their own bedrooms.

They don't hesitate to invade the homes of the public if it might, I say might, involve money that the MPAA thinks it is due.

[jazusamo]

BBSpot is satire.

[martin_fierro]

In related news:

MPAA to Thwart Pirates By Making All Movies Suck

[Right Wing Assault]

The way around it is to have very uncomfortable chairs or to make your friends look at the screen through toilet paper tubes. That should make them happy, right? ;-)

[zook]

Satire, yes. But just barely. I just read a piece about what these people have in mind for the future. Essentially, they want total control over how we all listen to music and watch video. Not only are they working to stop digital copying, they're also working to "plug the analog hole" in music playing devices so as to prevent any analog to digital recording.

[TomGuy]

If Congress passes such idiocy (Senator Hatch, pay attention), Congress should be retired.

[Right Wing Assault]

I think they plan to do the same for audio systems. Any playing of CDs for friends would be a violation, as well.

[jammer]

The MPAA has lost its mind.

Yes it has, in addition to an unbridled arrogance and breathtaking lust for control that "hubris" does not begin to describe.

Or is it sheer desperation and greed? The problem is that many in Congress are in their hip pocket, or vice-versa. I kinda' hope they try it--the revolution will begin.

[Overtaxed]

MPAA to Thwart Pirates By Making All Movies Suck

I think it's working!

[KoRn]

"THIS IS SATIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What's telling is that the MPAA, along with the RIAA, have been so aggressive this satire is believable! Sad.

[TomGuy]

With so much idiocy passing for sanity in today's world, it is difficult to separate satire from reality.


Not long ago, Senator Hatch was advocating blowing up computers that had music downloads on them.