Posted on 03/20/2009 10:46:53 AM PDT by bimboeruption
A few years back, it emerged that US Senator Ted Stevens had been given an iPod by his daughter, and it had changed the way he saw the RIAA and the measures for which it lobbied.
It's always seemed to me that once politicians -- at least those not beholden to the entertainment industry -- experienced the stupidity and frustration of the locks and controls that groups like the RIAA and MPAA put on content and want backed up by law, they'd realize they were little more than attempts to frustrate consumers and prop up outmoded business models.
Maybe the UK is prepared for a similar political inflection point: its Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was recently given a gift of 25 DVDs of classic American movies by US President Barack Obama. When Brown sat down to watch one of them, he found he couldn't -- because Obama had given him Region 1 DVDs, unplayable in Brown's Region 2 DVD player.
The pointless DRM didn't stop any piracy, it prevented an absolutely reasonable use of legitimately purchased content. Maybe this experience will help the British government understand how many of the entertainment industry's efforts to strengthen intellectual property controls do little more than irritate legitimate consumers in the name of supporting failing business models.
The most intelligent and caring president in the history of American screws up yet again.
Lololololololol...
TOTUS didn’t give barry the right guidance that day. The batteries must’ve been weak that day.
aka, Free Willy
...So they kick up another $150 for a portable Region 1 DVD player, and a outlet conversion kit...
But...but...Zero is only human...he’s a new president...he’s apt to make mistakes...yadda yadda yadda.
What an American disgrace—this whole Administration and the morons that put them in power. That sound you hear is all the American patriots going back to 1776 rolling in their graves in disgust!
So I guess Obama and his ENTIRE administration must be ZONE 2... Because they have been USELESS the whole time they have been in the White House!!! Can we please get a president who is Zone 1 and agree’s with the American people?? I know for a fact Sarah Palin or Fred Thompson would be Zone 1 and fully compatible with the American Public!
They are a disgrace.
http://www.220-electronics.com/dvd/dvdorig.htm
I resent your HORRIFIC and MEANINGLESS GIFT to the British Prime Minister.
How dare you do this in our name.
Please call him and apologize for your lack of graciousness, your lack of knowledge on correct etiquette when welcoming a foreign dignitary and get your arrogance fat half - black arse into presidential mode and STOP bankrupting our nation.
What an American disgrace—this whole Administration and the morons that put them in power. That sound you hear is all the American patriots going back to 1776 rolling in their graves in disgust!
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These idiots must have no fear of God.
What they are doing is pure EVIL.
Shoulda sent 8 tracks.
Did Obozo’s teleprompter pick out the gift or was it Geithner or Dodd?
I resent your HORRIFIC and MEANINGLESS GIFT to the British Prime Minister.
How dare you do this in our name.
Please call him and apologize for your lack of graciousness, your lack of knowledge on correct etiquette when welcoming a foreign dignitary and get your arrogance fat half - black arse into presidential mode and STOP bankrupting our nation.
I agree. Barry and his staff are tasteless idiots.
This is worse than dyeing the White House fountain green for the American-Irish vote.
Obama is a pig. No, a monkey, he REALLY looks like one, unlike GW who was always likened to one, and worse, obama ACTS like one. Just plain rude.
Right! The red carpet will be rolled out and $100.00 a pound beef will be served on gold plates along with the finest of wines.
And who knows what the gifts will be? The Hope Diamond, an original copy of the Constitution, the state of Hawaii, five-hundred 12 year old white girls? Nothing is too good for our raghead friends.
ALL at OUR expense.
As clueless as the MSM claimed W was, neither he nor his staff did anything as stupid as this in their first 60 days.
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