Corporate shill propaganda should rot on the shelves.

The whole concept of tracking copyright infringement by spying on everyone on the Internet is really a way to push through monitoring and spying mechanisms other agencies would like to see in place, but cannot get the US Citizens to swallow very easily. If it is all done under the guise of deterring copyright infringement to protect the starving record labels and movie distributors, then most people will just along.

Whats next… we have to lock down the Internet from all that Free Speech messiness so we can “Save the Childrenz” from harm.

what you said really hit the spot with me! I think the MPAA AND RIAA have manipulated the arts scene for far too long. They’re worse than the mob.

what you said really hit the spot with me! I think the MPAA AND RIAA have manipulated the arts scene for far too long. They’re worse than the mob.

Th Bsh cln ws wrng fr dng ths clndstn crp, nd th sm hlds tr fr bm.

I will visit http://www.hulu.com once in a while though.

Now look at how extreme the MPAA suggests copyright enforcement should be externalized to government and other unrelated industries. The MPAA would probably favor capital punishment for copyright infringement if they thought they could get it passed into law.

Creeto,
I would buy 20 vowels if I could but my post got the vowels knocked out of it. Odd?… How does that happen? Who do I make my check out to for those vowels?

FASCIST MOTHERFUCKERS

I like that.

Our President-to-be understands that his employers are us, not the moneyed elite. I think I’m gonna be able to get used to this.

But back to the point — what Obama has done here is to get discussion of MPAA’s position out and public. They’ll never get this past Congress now. Because I really think that at this point, Congress has realized we’re watching.

Takuan @30, I like the way you think.

You seem to have some confusion about the topic of this post. Or are you just here to push your personal political agenda?

2) It is YOUR responsibility to research ALL media you might purchase, and if you find that you are going to purchase anything from any company in any way affiliated with the MPAA or RIAA, to BOYCOTT THEM FOREVER and go to any means to not give the MPAA a penny. If this means never going to the movies again, then don’t go. If this means pirating all of your media or buying it second hand, do that. Hollywood movies are junk anyway, and services like Jamendo, Magnatunes and others provide plenty of interesting, non-evil-affiliated tunes to tickle your ear lobes. Additionally, it is YOUR responsibility to impress the importance of this to those around you you have influence on.

3) I’ve not been very impressed with Obama so far. But this whole revealing the requests and petitions of lobbying groups is the single best thing that the fledgling administration has done. Keep it up!

I think it’s important to note it because what you’re saying (or the MPAA I guess) looks exactly like the arguments that were used to convince the french senators to vote for it: “we’ll do it as a lot of other countries already do it” although the examples given referred to countries that were experimenting this kind of system or planning to test it (IIRC, it was said that this “three-strikes” system was already the norm in UK and Australia: in UK it has been experimented by some ISP and a lot of problems arose recently – i.e. with Atari/Davenport Lyons ; I’m not sure about Australia: I’ve read there were plans for experimentations, please correct me if I’m wrong).

Here in France, a lot of people are fighting against this law project.

We have independant net shows on youtube and Veoh. Even some documentries are posted on these venues legally. We even have Mogulus who allow people to create and broadcast live shows.

Then we have people using the creative commons licencing to distribute thier music.

With all this happeing I can see an end to expensive big block buster movies and the tradtional way of selling music.

While I don’t doubt Obama’s own insightfulness, will this even be an issue that he decides? It seems most of these matters are dealt with by other delegates who won’t necessarily share his same understanding and intelligence.

Hehe.

I dont think this will go anywhere. He and his team are clearly net-savvy and they know better.