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MPAA Tells The FCC: If We Don't Stop Piracy, The Internet Will Die
Tech Dirt ^ | 3 November 2009 | Mike Masnick

Posted on 11/05/2009 11:31:58 AM PST by ShadowAce

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1 posted on 11/05/2009 11:32:00 AM PST by ShadowAce
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To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...

2 posted on 11/05/2009 11:32:50 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

The Hollywood Reds dictate that our our internets belong to them.


3 posted on 11/05/2009 11:38:03 AM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: ShadowAce

Remind me to download more movies. I have nineteen and I’m going to download more. Let them chew on that.

Download Pride!


4 posted on 11/05/2009 11:38:38 AM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: ShadowAce
The full filing (warning:pdf) claims, repeatedly, that piracy is sucking up all our bandwidth and getting rid of that would somehow make it cheaper to install faster internet connections

People are making their OWN content now. They don't need public access channels to get their own shot productions on a "tube" now.

Hollywood's days are numbered. They want to snuff out the competition.

5 posted on 11/05/2009 11:42:59 AM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: ShadowAce

Hollywood hates public domain content. Be sure to download (or stream) a lot of it:

archive.org

Consumers can also stream movies via monthly services like netflix.

Not all such content is “stolen”. Don’t give them “security clearance”. They are worse than “Big Brother”.


6 posted on 11/05/2009 11:46:43 AM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: ShadowAce

As Krusty the Klown said in the Simpsons Movie: “DRAMA QUEEN!”


7 posted on 11/05/2009 11:49:05 AM PST by Reaganesque ("And thou shalt do it with all humility, trusting in me, reviling not against revilers.")
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To: ShadowAce
The full filing (warning:pdf) claims, repeatedly, that piracy is sucking up all our bandwidth and getting rid of that would somehow make it cheaper to install faster internet connections.

Another example of how predators, both in and out of government, capitalize on the general public's woeful ignorance of things scientific and technical.

To jog our memories, during the tech frenzy of 10-20 years ago, fiberoptic was installed worldwide in a whilwind of activity that defied logic, since each fiber was capable of transmitting thousands of times the capacity of normal wire. Multiple cables were installed all over the place. I doubt seriously that capacity is a problem.

Having said that, there are other more serious problems that the dying MPAA and the RIIA(?) have caused that are almost invisible.
Perhaps the ultimate demise of Microsoft, should they persist in including destructive DRM in their operating systems. Windows 7 is as doomed, for the same reason, as VISTA was.

The internet industry does not suffer fools. Individual providers are in a better position to police abuse than the FCC (everything the centralized mafia touches turns to crap).
The individual providers are in a better position to also police other abusers, such as spammers and Phisers and purveyors of viruses and trojan horses. These can be identified by their country of origin. It would be possible to lock out ISPs in foreign countries which allow the criminals constant access. The money must be good for them.

In summary, FCC keep off our internet!

8 posted on 11/05/2009 11:50:45 AM PST by Publius6961 (Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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To: ShadowAce

I have NEVER downloaded a song off limewire that I would have purchased. Frankly, with youtube and Pandora I can “listen” even easier than by using limewire.

‘Course, my main reason for using limewire is to download songs to learn them for my bands. And usually I have a CD or vinyl copy of my own. It’s just more convenient.

I just finished reading a book called Hotel California. I highly recommend it. One of the things I gleaned from the book is that even with the advent of rock in the 60’s, it took a while for record companies to really cash in, and the cash cow is long gone. People have moved on.

The biggest problem with “illegal” downloading is that it reinforces, in people’s subconscious, that recorded music is not something you pay money for.

To put it in perspective, I bought the first Star Trek movie on beta for $105 and thought I was getting a great deal. My perception has changed.


9 posted on 11/05/2009 11:52:39 AM PST by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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ONOZ!
10 posted on 11/05/2009 11:52:43 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
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To: ShadowAce

Screw the MPAA. And the RIAA, while we’re at it.


11 posted on 11/05/2009 11:53:16 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Those who provide the least and demand the most have a voting majority.)
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To: ShadowAce

LOL. Are they really that stupid??


12 posted on 11/05/2009 11:55:16 AM PST by ken in texas
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To: ShadowAce

When a store employs security/store detectives, the store pays for them (and gets the benefit).

The MPAA is offering to pay for the development and deployment of the tools to stop this illegal practice, right?


13 posted on 11/05/2009 11:55:53 AM PST by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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The Internet without content would be nothing more than a collection of hardware; a series of computer links and protocols with great capacity to communicate but nothing to say.

Yes, "absence of [our leftist, perverted, unoriginal] content" is exactly the same as "absence of content". The vast majority of stuff I look at online is actual INFORMATION, not soul crushing Marxist propaganda from Hollywood. Arrogant pricks.

14 posted on 11/05/2009 11:56:48 AM PST by Still Thinking
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That a tool intended to stop unlawful conduct could be put to ill use, however, is not an argument for prohibiting the use of the tool....

I thought that was the definition of their entire life. Boy, is "tool" appropriate or what?

15 posted on 11/05/2009 11:59:57 AM PST by Still Thinking
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To: Slings and Arrows

That graphic includes pirated images. And they are MOVING!!!

ONOZ!!!!!


16 posted on 11/05/2009 12:00:08 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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Did you check out the most popular downloads on the audio portion of archive.org? Here it is: 1. Fares Abbad فارس عباد 140,874 downloads 2. القرآن الكريم The Holy Quran 121,762 downloads 3. Maher Al-Muaiqly- TvQuran.com 21,788 downloads 4. TvQuran.com Ahmad Al-Ajmy 19,974 downloads 5. dmyra - Unpollution (ca325) 18,093 downloads 6. Abdulbasit Abdulsamad (mojawad) 15,752 downloads 7. TvQuran.com الرقية الشرعية و الآذان 14,620 downloads 8. Mishary Alafasi 13,907 downloads 9. Mutation Urbaine - Ville Imaginaire (ca326) 13,851 downloads 10. Morgan Craft - The Silver Bullet (ca324) 13,496 downloads Notice anything?
17 posted on 11/05/2009 12:00:18 PM PST by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Still Thinking

Hollywood owns book publishers, news agencies, movie and tv studios, and licensing to syndicated reruns and 80 years of movies.

Their attitude is that YOU need to be coughing up some money, because somewhere sometime you MAY see something and they may not collect some money on it.

Works for ASCAP and BMI to get businesses to pay quarterly licensing fees to have a tv or radio on in a bidness. The artists never see a dime of that money but the goon squad is satisfied to collect their cut.


18 posted on 11/05/2009 12:02:59 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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The MPAA is offering to pay for the development and deployment of the tools to stop this illegal practice, right?

Do you WANT stuff designed by the MPAA keeping an eye on you?

19 posted on 11/05/2009 12:03:59 PM PST by Still Thinking
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Quite clearly, it is the promise of access to the content flowing over the Internet's network architecture that motivates Americans to adopt broadband. The Internet without content would be nothing more than a collection of hardware; a series of computer links and protocols with great capacity to communicate but nothing to say. Television once was unfairly derided as little more than a toaster with pictures. In the absence of compelling content, the Internet would offer consumers even less value than that proverbial toaster. It is the content that flows over and through the Internet that makes the breakthrough technology so potentially powerful.

Talk about arrogance, coupled with terminal narcissism!

I have never accessed movies on line, a certain, documented means of getting your computer trashed. Even if I were so inclined, the one movie out of 50 that I would want to own (and presently buy) hardly supports this asinine view of the internet as "a device with great capacity, but nothing to say."

Say what?

I can't possible list all the things that I have downloaded in the last two months that have nothing whatsoever to do with music or movies! And they all benefit enormously from broadband speeds.

I can name a few:

Books free on line, classics.
Research on plate techtonics and earthquakes.
Recent developments and new books on the Great Missoula Floods.
Seismic details of the Great New Madrid Earthquake.

Travel and geographic information of all kinds.

These Hollywood doofuses are judging the internet users by their own focused tiny minds and interests.

Fortunately, that PDF copy of the "complaint" includes the address of the FCC, for the benefit of those of us inclined to add our two cents to the discussion.

20 posted on 11/05/2009 12:04:38 PM PST by Publius6961 (Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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