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Hollywood's Foundations Rest on Piracy
enrico_suave writes "Wired Magazine had an interesting perspective on how Hollywood has 'pirate' roots in its history, as well as radio, cable TV, and the music industry. Is P2P any different (except for the fact that the industry being replaced has much more money and political sway than ever before)?"
Why, the fax machine is nothing but a waffle iron with a phone attached.
at the beginning humans would fight for food. anything was game. i guess the same was with the movie industry at that time... ah... what the heck...
I'll need three ships and fifty stout men. We'll sail around the Horn
and return with spices and silks, the likes of which, ye have never seen!
I tried that with my lawyer. He only gave me advice. I thought, "I'm not paying him, he didn't give me anything physical." Big mistake.
If you are going to pirate something, then at least wear the patch. It is more authentic that way.
No, Vern. They just let him in.
There was a tradition in the radio business of the 1930's of taking shows of other stations far away and broadcasting them as your own.
There is the same trend on Slashdot too. Taking someone else's post and claiming it as your own. It's called trolling and most people here who are anti-copyright/patent,etc and pro stealing mp3s/movies/etc off the internet hate it. Maybe Hollywood should start refering to it as trolling or flamebait. It might be more effective.
So that's why Linux isn't as widespread as Windows... it's no fun to pirate! People should start charging for it, maybe that would help ^_^
You don't watch the same movie for 12+ hours a day every day...
You obviously don't have young children.
svelt little nipple hiding behind a sun-shaped nipple medallion. Oh, is that what is was... how many times did you have to replay that scene on your Tivo before you could figure it out?
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