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Tech Industry To Hollywood: Slow Down, Camper

Posted by Hemos on from the all-slow dept.

negativethirsty wrote to us with a story here at Wired, most of the tech industry heads sent a letter to the motion picture studios, with a nod towards the US Senate. Basically, the tech industry does not want SSSCA to be pased, and want to work out a "technically feasible, cost effective solution" for protecting entertainment delivered in digital form.

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  1. Hate To Be A Naysayer ... by Freneticus · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I'm afraid conversing via rational letters just doesn't appeal to the RIAA, or the MPAA for that matter. God knows I've sent Jack Valenti and Hilary Rosen a hefty number of 600-word letters expressing my eagerness to work with Hollywood to find "technically feasible, cost effective solutions" for planting my foot in their asses, and they've never once bothered to reply. Ingrates. At least Mr. Fritz sent me a letter telling me he's not involved with any digital-rights medium hearings. I like to see honesty in elected representatives!

  2. In other words . . . by jdcook · · Score: 5, Funny

    "They can't treat our pledges like that. Only WE can treat our pledges like that."h

    --
    Q:How many libertarians does it take to stop a Panzer division? A:None. Obviously market forces will take care of it.
  3. Other way round? by Ed+Avis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps the tech industry should get together and draft an Act that would restrict the output of Hollywood in order to protect computer manufacturers' profits.

    For example, a movie would not be allowed to show computers in a negative light, nor to glorify 'hacking'. And there would be a statutory upper limit on how entertaining films could be, because otherwise people might spend too much time at cinemas and too little time at home playing computer games.

    We have allowed the irresponsible 'film industry' to damage our profits for too long. If they can't sort it out, government should step in.

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    -- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
  4. Slow Down Cowboy! by sulli · · Score: 5, Funny
    Congress requires you to wait 2 years between each successful denial of civil rights to allow everyone a fair chance at denying rights.

    It's been 4 months since you passed 'USA PATRIOT Act'!

    If this error seems to be incorrect, please provide the following in your report to the Majority Leader:

    Name and Party
    What steps caused this error
    Whether or not you are collecting a sufficient amount of soft money from the lobbyists for this particular law
    How many civil rights you successfully denied during the day

    * Please choose 'formkeys' for the category!

    Thank you.

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    sulli
    RTFJ.