Comments on: BBC p2p file sharing farce: II

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:15:22 +0000

“I love the last one where they’re all pretending that their industry was never ever frightened by tv or vcr’s.

Yeah right.

The truth is they are terrified. They’ve finally woken up and realised their whole industry is just one big middle man, and we all know what happens to the middle man.”

Tony, you are absolutely right. You may remember the Sony Betamax case. the movie studios sued Sony to try to get them to stop selling VCR’s, saying that it allowed people to break copyright laws and make illegal recordings of tv shows and movies. thankfully, the courts made the right decision, saying that the legitimate uses of a vcr greatly outweigh the illegitimate uses. they also said that “fair use” laws allowed consumers to tape shows. can you imagine a world without VCRs and DVD’s? sales and rentals of movies account for a huge percentage of the market. theaters are losing money every year, but rentals and dvd sales continue to be strong.

if the studios had gotten their way, they’ve would’ve not only deprived consumers of a very useful and beneficial tool, they would’ve deprived themselves of a huge business opportunity. this is the EXACT same kind of short-sighted, narrow-minded BS that the RIAA is pulling right now with all these p2p lawsuits.

the RIAA are idiots if they think p2p is going away. they want to take rights away from us, and we have to fight back. they realize that they are quite rapidly becoming irrelevant so they’re filing all these ridiculous suits against people to scare us all into submission.

i am not unsympathetic to the RIAA. I support honest businesses, rewarding hard work and innovation, however, I cannot tolerate liars. the RIAA has demonstrated that they don’t care about decency and the truth, and for that they deserve to be extinguished. As I’ve wrote in my article, we’re not the enemy, but treating people with contempt and disrespect will not go unpunished. It’s time to hammer in that final nail in their coffin.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:15:38 +0000

All the site operator really cares about is the revenue from the advertisements on the site, not the editorial integrity of the stories. Most of them are just rants anyway.

Having said that, I keep visiting this site.

It’s like a train wreck … horrifying, yet I can’t look away.

Go figure

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:57:56 +0000

I love the last one where they’re all pretending that their industry was never ever frightened by tv or vcr’s.

Yeah right.

The truth is they are terrified. They’ve finally woken up and realised their whole industry is just one big middle man, and we all know what happens to the middle man.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:22:21 +0000

“Glickman: …encourage people not to steal copyrights.”

Surely stealing their rights would mean they would be deprived of those rights? Is anyone depriving them of their rights? Infringing maybe but certainly not stealing.

It is clear the man is talking a load of rubbish and is probably best ignored.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:59:56 +0000

2 of the questions are the same… what’s up with that?