Posted on 11/05/2009 11:31:58 AM PST by ShadowAce
The Hollywood Reds dictate that our our internets belong to them.
Remind me to download more movies. I have nineteen and I’m going to download more. Let them chew on that.
Download Pride!
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.
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”.
As Krusty the Klown said in the Simpsons Movie: “DRAMA QUEEN!”
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!
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.
Screw the MPAA. And the RIAA, while we’re at it.
LOL. Are they really that stupid??
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?
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.
I thought that was the definition of their entire life. Boy, is "tool" appropriate or what?
That graphic includes pirated images. And they are MOVING!!!
ONOZ!!!!!
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.
Do you WANT stuff designed by the MPAA keeping an eye on you?
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.
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