Republicans can make great inroads with younger folks by being on the right side of this. Dunno if they’re smart enough (any of them) to do that though.
The entertainment industry needs to grow up. They need to embrace new technology, not shun it and attempt to pigeonhole everything into some dead paradigm. Somewhere along the way they forgot that if your business doesn’t change with the times, it withers and dies. It’s true for any business.
Oh sure, be a brave presidential candidate and come out in favor of “big business” and be all for suing grandma’s and mom’s and dad’s for what their kids download.
Real smart.....
Nope. Won’t happen.
But they will once in office support these sue happy clowns.
I’m all for reasonable exclusive rights to created content, protected by the courts, in exchange for that content becoming the public domain after a short number of years.
The present legalistic scenario is the author’s lifetime plus seventy years.
Make it fifteen years; long enough to make a profit off the original work, short enough to actually make it an exchange. Either that, or simply disband the copyright office if no one is willing to make this exchange as conceptualized by the founding fathers.
Both the RIAA and MPAA need to be subject to antitrust proceedings.
this makes me sick.
Talk about a scary cult running the country...
My campaign plank would be that the RIAA and the MPAA should die a horrible death and that every lawyer and executive working for them would be sent to Guantanamo, never to be seen again.
A candidate looking to lock up some extra votes should respond with a polite variation on “Kiss My @$$” (or, better yet, simply with “Kiss My @$$”).
Still Thinking urges the RIAA and MPAA to bite his fat hiary white azz.
LOL, like protecting the music industry is of national interest.
I would probably no vote for any candidate that signed on to help the RIAA go after music fans.
Wasn't much of a President, either.