p2pnet - rss feed: MPAA sucker panel
p2p news / p2pnet: The entertainment cartels are running one scam after another in their desperate efforts to turn former consumers, who are steadily reverting to customer status, back into brainless cash-cows.
Consumers have no ability to think for themselves and are led like cows to the slaughter to ingurgitate inferior, over-priced ‘product’ endlessly churned out by the corporations.
Customers, on the other hand, are individuals with free will who choose whether or not to avail themselves of corporate offerings, their choices based on whether or not said product is worth buying in the first place.
Which it usually isn’t.
The cartels don’t like customers because not only do they exercise intelligent choice, they also exhibit an unfortunate tendency to look to the competition for alternatives.
So the cartels don’t like competition, either, and are therefore doing everything within their very considerable powers to crush anything and everything they don’t own and can’t control.
How can we find out what to hit the marks with? - is the single most important question facing not only the entertainment cartels, but all corporations whose success [read shareholder profits] depends entirely on being able to continue scamming you and I into buying stuff we really don’t want and definitely don’t need.
A mark is someone who’s the intended victim of a swindler and the MPAA, owned by the venal Big Six Hollywood movie studios, thinks it’s found a great way to not only get into the minds of marks (that’s you and me), but also to have us do all the work for free!
It’s organizing something called My Movie Muse, an online “consumer panel” through which it’ll get marks to, “periodically participate in online surveys about all things related to the movies”.
They’ll be expected to provide priceless data (which’ll be passed along the line to third party affiliates) “from theater attendance to home video rental and advertisements to piracy”.
For starters, an unnamed research firm will, “provide some of the original participants to ensure a range of input from an age and geographic standpoint,” says the MPAA. But eventually, it hopes it’ll suck in enough people so the studios won’t have to actually pay to get marks to take part in the ’surveys’.
So what kind of data will the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) collect about you?
“MyMovieMuse survey website, participants in MyMovieMuse surveys are asked to provide some Personal Information (e-mail address, state and zip code, gender, age, marital status, education, race/ethnicity, type of employer and income, motion picture viewing habits, and opinions about the motion picture industry and about types of motion pictures),” it says.
It makes no mention of what it’ll do with these data if someone – let’s say the US government – decides the material will come in handy to protect America against the Terrorist Threat, or anything else the Cheney / Bush administration may dream up now, or in the future.
Stay tuned.
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Also See:
CNET News - FBI plans new Net-tapping push, July 7, 2006
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July 11th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Be fun to sign up and give them BS data.
July 12th, 2006 at 12:44 am
Honestly, I would not waste the time. They seem quite able to waste the governments time and are willing to waste your time. I wouldn’t throw them a bone if they were starving. Another more suitable phrase comes to mind but I think it isn’t appropriate for this forum to state it. I will leave this hint about that one, it involves being on fire.
They’ve done nothing to make internet users lives better, why should I waste my time for their benefit?