The only thing MPAA achieves is that new techonologies are developed to replace the server based linksites by p2p based link ratings (exeem) and untrackable tunneled web traffic (i2p).

So they achieved nothing for their purpose (to avoid data piracy). Instead they accelarate techonologie-developement wich comes quite handy for real criminals (terrorists, child porn, snuff, etc…)

They should just sit back and think about that, but its already to late.
So they only can lie down in grief, that they lost the battle bevore it started and made the world a safer place for the real scum!

Yes, you hit the nail square on the head. This is the entire and sole reason the executives are screaming, throwing tantrums and filing lawsuits. They are afraid that their days are numbered. And, in fact, they are. Once the artists realize they can create their content and sell it directly to their fan base without a middleman or any unfair contractual obligations, the middleman will then no longer be necessary.

But, the one thing that will have to change is the Clear Channel conglomerate that owns most radio stations that ‘choose’ the content that will be aired. Until alternative radio (Internet or Satellite not owned by a huge conglomerate) outnumbers ‘over the air content’, ‘pop music’ will be dominated by Clear Channel and the other few people who control the content. This means that artists are still over a barrel to get their material played. In other words, unless they play the middleman/bad contract game, their material will never be heard on the radio no matter how brilliant it is.

Well, the people who shop at Lowes are ’stealing’ from Home Depot, in a competitive sense. This isn’t the problem of the consumer, however. This is the problem of Home Depot’s management and marketing. If they want better sales and to ’steal’ back from Lowes, then they need to offer better deals to get the consumers into their stores.

This is exactly what the Music and Movie industries should do. Instead of threatening lawsuits, harassing very likely innocent people and generally being the bad guy to their paying customers, they should offer attractive and more inticing deals to counter the P2P networks. If there were commercial places to get the content that are better quality, with better reliability and availability than what P2P offers, I have no doubt the consumer will come. I know that I would. Since there is literally nothing else, P2P reigns.

“Build it and they will come.” –Field of Dreams

Each time the RIAA/MPAA has been dragged screaming into the new technology, they’ve made (quite literally) millions of times more money than they have *ever* lost from these new technologies, and their markets have increased into new areas, often giving them extra sales from the same old IP as people replace vinyl with CDs, or VHS tapes with DVDs, etc.

The only way the MPAA/RIAA can fail if they are pigheaded and stupid enough to keep attacking their customers, and refuse to back the new technology. When content producers realise they can sell more copies directly to fans over the internet for less money and make a *lot* more profit than having the music publisher as pointless middleman taking an exhorbitent share of the profits, then it’s game over for the MPAA/RIAA. The MPAA/RIAA arn’t worried about the loss of their IP or money, they are worried about the loss of their position as middlemen creaming off money by screwing the musician, movie maker and customer. The harder they fight, the quicker that day will come.

Allow me to break down the concept of theft to more simplistic terms so you can understand this better.

when you steal something, you remove it from the posession of another person.

Hollywood cannot claim theft of their revenues by downloading because they had not made the revenues yet. It is like home depot claiming that peole who shop at lowes are “stealing” from home depot.

if you think that “potential revenues” should be protected, then i say go to a communist nation where the government has outlawed competition, because when you get right down to it, competition is defined as “theft of potential revenue”

You should have got the DVD-screener rip which has been out for 2 weeks.
The quality is good, but didn’t like the movie, so I wouldn’t have bought it.

You got that wrong, but good piece otherwise