SOPA and PIPA may have been dealt a setback by last week's widespread protests, but neither has been withdrawn completely. Likewise, opponents of overreaching anti-piracy legislation continue to speak out.
No individual has received more attention than Wikimedia's Jimmy Wales. Wikipedia was certainly the biggest website to go dark on January 18 in protest of the two bills. While the decision ... [ read the full article ]
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of course Dodd has done everything to fan the flames because if there wasn't piracy then who would pay this idiot any money or attention. He is the quintessential abuse of power. His mug shot should in Webster's for being an ass. Its like this the rich are calling for the government 's of the world to step in so they can help stop piracy.. well there's a better way. how about we all say going to the movies is worth 7.00 per and piracy is costing the 5.00 per then they are only making 2.00 per well wouldn't it better to make 4.00 per person from online viewing or rental or dvd and be happy instead of bitching and winning about lost revenue and wanting to take it off their taxes for the year .. and just lower the price to where its cheaper to pay for it ,then burn it or take a chance of getting caught stealing it off line.. maybe its not the piracy at all Hollywood maybe the movie was crap to start with not all ideas are good ones, some just suck like alot of movies as of late and the world has shown that we will pay look at C.K.Lewis and the cool million in 10 days or so.. maybe it time for a new model...
I'm not exactly sure how to take Jimmy Wales' comment. It certainly is the most underrated, diluted criticism to date that's for sure.
Wow... 'fire' a rich, blow hard, schmoe that has openly admitted to tampering with judicial & electoral process; not to mention he was also in a dead heat to basically shut down your own company like the mental faculties of a 12 year old rape victim and the best you can can come up with to publicly sodomize this ass tramp with is 'fire him'?
Let's just say if I were on a committee commissioned with obtaining spokespersons for the defense AGAINST legislation like SOPA; I certainly wouldn't be looking for Jimmy Wales as an immediate candidate.
im sorry but he is doing what the public is so upset about in government
using the money to change the course instead of finding a new person to back that has his same views.changing minds in government is based on public outcry and of unfairness not a threat of the withdraw of funds as tool to scare political representative to go against public outcry of unfairness
Take a good look everyone, it's old blue haired f*ckers like this that are trying to censor the internet for big business. This idiot couldn't explain to you how he has an email address let alone understand what he's being paid to "vote" on. Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll go hunting with Dick Cheney.
My comments are about the MPAA and the industry as a whole. Most movies that come out each week are "B" grade or less. If I were to see these movies in a retail store, I wouldn't buy them unless the price were very low and I'm talking $2 to $3 dollars. There have probably been only 200 or so movies in the last 10 years that are worth buying because you might want to watch them more than once. That's the only thing that makes them worth buying. The majority aren't worth watching once so, you are not wasting too much money at a buck or two for rental. The movie industry isn't loosing money to piracy, it's loosing money because they're making crap movies that no one want's to watch and the only way they get out there is through the cheap vending machine rentals. Sure, the big name movies, the ones you want to watch are probably being pirated but, they would drop the price a few bucks so most working people could afford them, they would make the money back in volume.
Chris Dodd is a politician,nuff said.The MPAA and the RIAA are out to get money for nothing by suing everyone and that is just despicable.
As far as music goes, I like mine uncompressed so, I buy the music I like on CD. When the music sites start selling full, uncompressed format music at a resonable price, they'll get my business. If I want MP3's, I'll convert them myself in whatever bitrate i want and play them on what ever device I want. That goes the same for movies. When the bandwith is finally wide enough that movies are downloadable at full uncompressed format and at a resonable price, they'll have my business, until then, I'll buy the DVD's that are worth buying and rent the rest.
Notice to MPAA and RIAA, Get Your Heads Out Of Your Asses.
