Lore wrote:It's pretty clear here, the Internet is free, but copyright material is not. Same as its ever been. The only wonder is that its taken so long to begin to enforce the law.
Look for states to start enforcing taxation on Internet sales with a vengence as local big box stores close due to one click out of town online sales.
Ache wrote:Seriously, If these gov. can calculate a monetary loss for the entertainment industry, then why not calculate the loss to the American people caused by the financial industry?
Look at the most recent issue of the Economist, the top 1% of American income earners are increasingly becoming people in the financial industry. How did they get there? By robbing people blind and not facing any real justice.
Talk about living brazenly, these scumbags have the nerve to give themselves million + dollar bonuses after being bailed out by the government??
Just UnReal !!!
Message to future sites like Megaupload: Donate to members of Congress so you too can get out of trouble with the government. Megaupload could have been "too big to fail" but instead got shutdown. Lesson learned.
Internet sites on their SOPA-Strike may be conducting a blackout but Hollywood studios are conducting a boycott. I’ve learned that Hollywood studio chiefs individually and as a group are drawing a line in the sand on the piracy issue with the Obama re-election campaign and refusing to give any more donations.
In a posting on the White House web site, three of the Obama administration’s top officials for Internet and intellectual property matters said that they share many of the concerns that the Internet community has about the Hollywood-supported bills. The trio said that they “will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.” Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, and Special Assistant to the President Howard Schmidt tried to soften the blow to Hollywood by acknowledging that that online piracy is “a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response.” They added that they plan to host an online event “to get more input” on the matter. But Hollywood moguls told me they “didn’t know it was going to be as over the top as it was” and took this as a declaration of war. “We just feel very let down by the administration and Obama for not supporting us,” one studio chief explained to me. “At least let him remain neutral and not go against it until we can get the legislation right. But Obama went against it. I’m personally not going to support him anymore and not give a dime anymore,” another movie mogul who’s also a well-known Obama supporter told me this week.
Alarmed by the mogul boycott, Sarandos sent a personal plea to the Hollywood studio chiefs over the weekend begging them to continue supporting the Obama re-election campaign even though he knows they are disappointed with the Obama administration’s position on the piracy bills. Several moguls, in response, ”sent back word saying ‘Fuck You’ basically,” one insider tells me, expressing how they feel used and abused by the President despite their campaign contributions.
One insider told me, “Jim explained that this notion that the Hollywood community will continue giving regardless of its business interests has to be taken into consideration. The message was, ‘Don’t expect Hollywood to show up and say ‘Who do I write the check to’ anymore.”
The moguls are reminding Obama et al that, in the words of one studio chief, “God knows how much money we’ve given to Obama and the Democrats and yet they’re not supporting our interests. There’s been no greater supporters of him than we’ve been from the first day and the first fundraisers continuing until he was elected.
dissident wrote:Lore wrote:It's pretty clear here, the Internet is free, but copyright material is not. Same as its ever been. The only wonder is that its taken so long to begin to enforce the law.
Look for states to start enforcing taxation on Internet sales with a vengence as local big box stores close due to one click out of town online sales.
There is nothing honest about this case. The only way Megavideo/MKegaupload could make money off of pirated material is to have people pay them for the premium service to download it. Why bother when the regular download rate was fast enough. Also, from personal experience, MV/MU was actively deleting ripped video. It is quite clear that MV/MU is being made an example of and there are other file download companies that have pirated and cracked software on their servers which you can find doing Google searches. With a bit of patience you can download pretty much any piece of serious software out there including technical software that is hardly the target of the average consumer.
Loki wrote:Pirate Bay is next. Better get those torrents while the getting's good
Loki wrote:Pirate Bay is next. Better get those torrents while the getting's good
AgentR11 wrote:
Wouldn't it just be easier to buy the dvd ?
Lore wrote:
No matter which way you cut it they were copying and distributing music, movies and other copyrighted content without authorization. This is strictly verboten.
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