But what will happen when the MPAA buys the next SOPA? We can’t protest every similar bill with the same force. Eventually, our audiences will tire of calling their senators for whatever we’re asking them to protest this time.posted by Ian A.T. at 1:11 PM on January 20, 2012 [40 favorites]
Eventually, we will lose.
Such ridiculous, destructive bills should never even pass committee review, but we’re not addressing the real problem: the MPAA’s buying power in Congress. This is a campaign finance problem.
I respect the First Amendment and believe that any legislation passed by Congress must protect and defend our constitutional rights. But illegal and criminal activity is not protected by the First Amendment simply because it takes place online. For example, there is no First Amendment right to view, distribute or download child pornography over the Internet. Like child pornography, the theft of intellectual property is also illegal in the United States.posted by TwoWordReview at 5:01 PM on January 20, 2012
But any company that depends on being paid hyper-premium pricing, purely for making a copy of a bitstream, is doomed.Wow dude, what makes you think their demise is just a matter of time? Theoretically you could be right, if one thinks competition by not-hyper-premium pricing companies may eventually crush companies who rely on buying customized law to secure an extraprofit.
"What they need to do is lick their wounds, see what happened and do a lot of test messaging right now because clearly the one they were using wasn't effective," said veteran Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman, vice chairman of Reputation.com, a reputation management company.Test messaging? Oh I see, panel interview to see how to better spin this and indeed, quoting you again (bold mine)
In other words, "that guy's successful business model doesn't match my preconceived notion of a bunch of dirty pirates out there to steal stuff, so I'm going to ignore that million bucks in Louis' pocket because I refuse to reconsider my givens."That notion and its language, which uses the word "pirate" (entirely disregarding the fact "real pirates" kill or loot people at gunpoint, as opposed to people who copy content who don't do any killing nor any physical subtraction of utility to obtain a profit (stealing)) were hammered into people minds by dint of repetition, exactly as the problem with Obama's birth certificate became "a problem" only because it was repeated over and over and over again, until it became "truly" a potential vote swinging issue.
But they are willing to set off as many nuclear weapons on the internet as possible in a vain effort to survive. They're going to die or change anyway, it's just a matter of how much damage we allow them to do to society as they flail around, so we need to keep them under control.Gotta page Lawrence Lessig for that, I guess, for control means regulation in a society that lives under the rule of law, which in turn is written by people who may be influenced by money or revolving-door agreements.
"Behind the Music: What If the Culture Industry Shut Down for a Day?",What does that even mean? How could "music" shut down for a day? Only online streaming services could be shut down, stuff you'd already downloaded would still work.
Also, basically every musician I know is an enthusiastic pirate, so I don't think the 'culture industry' has the lockstep army they think they have.Yeah, remember the MegaUpload Song. Obviously those people were paid, but they were willing to take the money.
There's millions of teens out there torrenting the latest blockbuster before it even gets into the theaters.This isn't even remotely true. The days of being able pirate stuff before it hit the theatres is long gone. Movie studios have gotten much better at securing pre-release video. You can usually only get something worth watching after it hits DVD/Blueray. Maybe the hard-core release groups have that stuff, but 'millions of teens' don't have access to that.
This is a form of the "that restaurant is always so crowded, no one goes there anymore" paradox. "The reason you guys have a problem with everyone avidly downloading everything you make is because the stuff you make is so shitty no one really wants it."A lot of the stuff isn't even worth downloading. And anyway who even cares? If the 'mainstream' movie and music industry went away tomorrow it's not like I wouldn't survive. There's so much content out there that's already been made. More then enough that can be watched in a lifetime. No one would ever 'run out' of content if copyright went away. I would prefer that outcome over losing the internet.
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