All-out attack on fair use
p2p news / p2pnet: "Plainly, the media companies are engaged in an all-out attack on the principle of fair use’."
That’s the view of Michael Hiltzik, writing in the Los Angeles Times.
For media companies, read the entertainment and software cartels.
"Scarcely a week passes without the entertainment industry warning us that its business model is about to be exterminated by some new technology," he says.
"The Internet, satellite radio and TiVo are among the mortal threats that have sent media executives scurrying to Washington with proposals to rein them in, tax them, even ban them. The music labels, TV networks and movie studios never propose to alter their own models to accommodate new technologies – they merely insist that everybody else change to accommodate them.
"When they don’t get their own way with lawmakers, they take it out on consumers."
The movie studios, record labels and software firms, "detest fair use," says Hiltzik. "They regard your ability to make a backup copy of a CD as a lost opportunity to sell you a new disc. They worry that a song parody by Weird Al might be mistaken in a store for the real thing. They don’t understand why a critic with the knives out for a book should be permitted to quote from it in a review. If they had their druthers, you’d pay them a few bucks every time you played a DVD at a party or put songs on a mix CD to give to a friend."
And that says it all.
Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local political representatives. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance.
Also read:-
Los Angeles Times – An Industry Unwilling to Play by Rules of ‘Fair Use’, December 12, 2005
December 13th, 2005 at 4:21 am
“If they had their druthers, you’d pay them a few bucks every time you played a DVD at a party or put songs on a mix CD to give to a friend.”
No, they’d insist that everyone have rfid tags inserted into them at birth so that music players could accurately calculate how many ppl are listening at any given second or part thereof and thus how much money is owed each time a song is played.
Of course even if you were only overhearing a song and not actually listening to it, you’d still have to pay up. Even if you only heard a fraction of a second of the track and not the whole track, you’d still have to pay for the entire track.
December 13th, 2005 at 4:39 am
“The Internet, satellite radio and TiVo are among the mortal threats that have sent media executives scurrying to Washington with proposals to rein them in, tax them, even ban them. The music labels, TV networks and movie studios never propose to alter their own models to accommodate new technologies – they merely insist that everybody else change to accommodate them.”
What kind of drugs is the author of this article on ?
Practically every member of congress takes kickbacks and bribes from the RIAA and the MPAA.
IT MUST BE SO HARD FINANCIALLY GETTING REELECTED THESE DAYS THAT CORRUPT SCUMBAGS SHAMELESSLY TAKE MONEY FROM CORPORATE CARTELS TO SCREW THE UNSUSPECTING CONSUMER.
A CUSTOMER HAS A BRAIN AND CAN MAKE LOGICAL CHOICES IN HIS BUYING PREFERANCES EVEN WHEN HE KNOWS HE IS GETTING RIPPED OFF BLIND.
A CONSUMER ON THE OTHER HAND IS TREATED LIKE A BRAINLESS RETARD BY THE ENTERTAINMENT CARTELS WHO ARE ON THE MOST PART ARE IGNORANT ABOUT TECHNICAL ISSUES AND THINKS THEY ARE GETTING A GOOD DEAL BUYING CSS PROTECTED MOVIES AND MUSIC VIDEOS AND OTHER WORTHLESS JUNK THAT HAVE A LOT OF WORTHLESS TRAILERS AND OTHER BELLS AND WHISTLES AND COST $20.00 TO $25.00 A POP.
LIKE W.C. FIELDS USED TO SAY “THERE IS A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE.”
The copyright law is heavily tilted to people in the software business.
You can’t legally copy a prerecorded hollywood movie.
Technically it is even illegal to copy a cd.
Sony/Bmg as it stands today can LEGALLY get away with installing rootkits on their poopy cds.