Jack Valenti's Views On The Digital Age

ditogi writes "The Harvard Political Review did a quick interview with the lord of darkness himself, Jack Valenti. He gives his thoughts on government mandated copy prevention, fair use, and lobbying. In response to his famous 'VCR is [to the movie industry]...as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.' quote, he responds, 'I wasn't opposed to the VCR.' And what does he think of his current job? 'I think lobbying is really an honest profession.'" My favorite quote: "In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless." Update: 02/05 20:05 GMT by T : Derek Slater writes "I'm the author of the Valenti article you guys linked to. I've made some brief comments about it on my site, and figured I'd send them along."

Comments

Re:no backups !!!

[BWJones]

Why the hell would you buy an expensive-ass Mac to be a fileserver? You could have had twice the machine for half the cost using an AMD processor and Linux/BSD.

Perhaps because it, with OS X is the best solution that allows me to wirelessly stream audio anywhere in my house to laptops or desktops with a minimum of fuss. And I should also mention that iTunes is a sweet music database application. The G4 also serves up DVD's for viewing enjoyment to a large screen monitor and can do this while someone else listens to music and gets their email or surfs the web among other things. As for the hardware, its actually an older G4 that I installed some big hard drives in to take all of the MP3s I ripped from my (paid for) collection.

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

[almightyjustin]

We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.