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Maybe if the motion picture companies focused more on making the content worthwhile, there would be less motivation to copy movies.

The digital format of most films and music released today has led to its increased piracy. The quality of video and audio recordings based in analog technology, such as cassette or VCR tapes, decreases each time an original version is copied.

No, a crappy movie is still a crappy movie, whether it is the first copy or the 1000th copy.

When digital recordings, such as CDs and DVDs, are copied, however, no quality is lost.

You can't lose what you don't have to start with.

The group will also need to develop a system for writing to the tags, a platform for associating DVDs with their purchasers or owners and a means of encrypting the tag data.

Associating a DVD with a particular owner? Right there is baaad news. What is it called, First Sale doctrine or something? I ask because I don't recall the actual name, but you get my point.

Past anti-copy technology has been foiled by simple tricks with markers and clever people cracking weak encryption. I'd bet a dollar or two that this will be no exception.

Note to the **AA: focus more on making the content/experience worth the price of admission/sale/whatever, and people will purchase it. If the public can't enjoy entertainment on their own terms, one of two things will happen:

(1) WE (as in the public) will stop paying for content, or

(2) The aforementioned clever people will break your protection and get the content for free and enjoy it how they wish.

Either way, you lose.

(BTW...the MPAA website is "temporarily unavailable.")

A smattering of opinions may be found linked to here. What exactly is aberrational behavior (page 5)?

As a poster noted on IMDB, the Wicker Man is probably the only movie that's ever been rated X (left unrated, essentially the same thing when it comes to movie-house or Blockbuster distribution) for its ideology: the Pagans aren't the bad guy, the Christian is.

So you've got a situation where the studios begin self-censoring, not producing movies with "controversial" stances, because they know an unkind rating will stifle distribtion. (Freedom of speech? You naive bastard! You had *fun* in high school civics, didn't you?)

Since some definitions of P2P networks are broad enough to include the web, I suggest they begin by targeting major nodes here, here, and here. Rumor is they're the worst offenders. Shut them down and maybe everything will be fine again.

....that the link above points to Management Partners and Associates and not The Motion Picture Association of America

mpaa.com that is link to in the header seems to be a legitimate business, but mpaa.org is the cartel we seem to be concerned with.

So much for the internic's rule of .com and .org domain rules where .org's are supposed to be "non-profit!"

Making links in random words in your post does not help readers find information any quicker when there's no discernable pattern in what they're for

My rant on this topic, and the US government.

Yes this is very 1984ish. When this law passes "Big Brother is watching" gets that much closer to reality. You have your 1984 TV that spreads the propaganda, the propaganda that only they can produce. And it watches you (let's see what MS will build into its OS), and you can't turn the device off (The DMCA Thought Police will get you).

Someone supposed to be representing the people has actually been paid by a couple of corporations to promote their own interest. The idiot Hollings is only after money, but isn't that politics nowadays, money and public opinion, I believe Bush knew more about Enron than he's saying, come on Bush and Cheney were/are in the oil business goddammit!

Why are we only attacking the evil that is SSSCA, not the evil that is the corruption that is running the government? I believe a revolution is overdue. And it won't be televised, because guess who owns the media? Why haven't we seen anything on CNN? Or Time Magazine?

Furthermore, I can't believe what is happening to prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Yes they are being refused prisoner of war status, they are on hunger strike, last I read. They are ready to die for their beliefs, and hell no the US Govt isn't going to let them die, but if they die anyway, who's going to prosecute the US? Imagine if those are US soldiers being held captive in Iraq. Bush would be nuking Saddam's ass and he (Mr. Hussein) would be Milosevic's cellmate in no time, but no, the US Govt is running the show here. As much as I hate extrimist who kill innocent people, I hate the idea that Bush is getting away with what otherwise would be "crimes against humanity" simply because he's the one bossing the world. Double standards for you, yeah life isn't fair, tough.

But all empires fall in the end. This one has covered basically the whole planet, what will happen when it falls? Just because the provider of its "entertainment" corrupted the congress that runs the planet itself.

If the SSSCA bill pass through, I'd like to see what kind of a country the US would be in a couple of decades, if not the world. People who don't like the idea would stop using computers and technology. The idea of Amish society doesn't seem so bad after all, live simpler lives without Disney crap that you don't need anyway. We could return to music making with real analog instruments and public performances of real artists, performances for donations, recorded using a pencil on music sheets. As for the internet, I can imagine that they would try to monitor all forms of data communication next. Non-certified publishers (aka servers) will not be allowed to serve content. Only AOL Time Warner will be left, serving you, yet again, crap, the internet turned into a TV, like a slashdotter has said. The "greatest thing after the industrial revolution" lived to a ripe age of 25 (born 1975) and died a slow painful death.

I can go on, but am I still coherent?

-all dead homiez

Maybe you're not with the in-crowd on this so I'll fill you in... "Management Partners" is actually a front for a divx group for people who don't check their links before posting bad attempts at humor. And people who click on links posted by people who don't check their links before posting bad attempts at humor... I guess.

• warez
• porn
• mp3s
• divx movies
• book-warez
• keeping up with my favorite cartoons.

Jeezus...You really worship Bill, don't ya?

But anyway. Bill's right. It's ok to rape the consumer, steal other people's ideas, buy or destroy the competitor...Just as long as you don't copy *Bill's* software.
The fuckin' amerikan way, right? Money rules, fuckin' sue em' if they don't like it.

You stupid fucks really don't 'get it', do you? Despite what the Rev. Bill may have preached to you, money isn't everything.

Richard Fuckin' Gere
Hey! Check it out! You're a karma whore and I'm a troll!
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