As the entertainment industry in the US lobbies for PROTECT-IP, the E-PARASITE Act, ACTA, and numerous other legal measures designed to give them control over technology, they have released a report showing why they don't need any of them.
According to the report from the International Intellectual Property Association, whose members include the MPAA, RIAA, Business Software Alliance, ... [ read the full article ]
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It's easy to prosper when the industry has the power to control and rewrite laws governing the ownership of ideas and information.
As a general rule of business, it's never profitable to piss off one's own customers. So to avoid such outrage they've just gone on a worldwide propaganda campaign to try to trick their customers; to make them believe that ideas and information should never fall into the public domain so that a few powerful people can profit indefinitely off the works and talents of those they claim to support, but from whose backs they attempt to tear the clothing while they think no one is looking.
You mean they made a profit after crying all those years about being ripped-off millions of dollars by low-down-ruthless-parasitic filesharers?! I thought the music and movie industry was shedding thousands of jobs because their failed efforts to stem the tide of media pirates? But of course they only had a yearly growth of 1.10%. Just think of the growth they would have had if we were all honest. Maybe....hmmmm....My guess is 1000000000000000.10%.
The MPAA and RIAA are there to create pirates, not to prevent piracy...anyone who thinks their actions are designed to sell music or help artists obviously hasn't been paying any attention at all.
Originally posted by KillerBug: The MPAA and RIAA are there to create pirates, not to prevent piracy...anyone who thinks their actions are designed to sell music or help artists obviously hasn't been paying any attention at all.
I disagree slightly... Look at it as a yin/yang. Without the artists you have no pirates. I mean, without anything worth stealing (I know, I have an oxi-moronic thing going on, just work with me) the alphabet Nazis couldn't validate their existence, thus their paychecks go away... world economy, blah, blah... you get the idea.
I mean Brad Paisley is actually stupid enough to think that ASCAP gave him a chance in the music industry because he is an American and worthy of an American dream. Saw that in an interview, I'm not that much of a country music fan. Boy is he going to be surprised when he wants his music back one day.
