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Hollywood's Foundations Rest on Piracy

Posted by michael on from the duh dept.

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)?"

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  1. 3rd post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    maybe i fail it

  2. wow!$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wow! who cares?

    who cares? wow?

  3. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  4. I can't believe it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Rico Suave has returned!

  5. Maybe. by bad+enema · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That, and negotiations with computer dealers and makers the world over to put Windows on their desktop. The ignorant customer buys Windows without even knowing that competition exists.

  6. Stop the antisemitic lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Stop the antisemitic lies. There was no terrorism.

    They won their independence with a brutal and bloody campaign of terror against the Brits

    The main example falsely used is calling the attack against the King David hotel "terrorism". This overlooks the fact that the British occupiers were using this hotel as a military base at the time it was attacked.

    1. Re:Stop the antisemitic lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      YEah, keep telling yourself that. That's why the Mossad creed is "By way of deception, thou shalt do war."

      They are the dirtiest terrorists in the world.

  7. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Firsts Posts Bitchs

  8. Heil Hitler! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's just historic fact (King David was military base). You keep believing the what the neo-nazis tell you. Heil Hitler!

  9. Historical facts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I was not referring to the King David hotel. I was referring to rampage of the underground death squads like Haganah (it's elite unit Palmah in particular), Irgun and the Stern Gang in 1946.

    Citing Ian Black and Benny Morris in "Israel's Secret Wars - A History of Israel's Intelligence Services", 1991, Grove Press, New York, USA. (ISBN 0-8021-3286-3) on page 37:

    "...[they] launched a guerilla campaign against the British, who still clung to Palestine out of vague pro-Arab sympathies combined wih simple inertia [...] but by February 1947 Labour government of Clement Attlee, under intense US pressure and discouraged by Britain's dual role of target for Jewish terrorists and umpire in a seemingly insoluble national conflict, decided to call it quites and let the United Nations solve the problem"

    But, of course, you can dismiss it as just a bunch of anti-semitic lies and bury your head in the sand. Haganah, Irgun and Stern Gang were pure as driven snow - freedom-fighters, you know.

  10. Re:Piracy helps. by bfree · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are you suggesting newspapers aren't printed with dots? A newspaper photo proves nothing in this case. Can anyone comment on the physical resolution limits of the chemicals involved in film? Are you really telling me I won't get a better photo using a lens to blow up a section of film rather than plucking a section from a 20 megapixel image? Of course it's analog, so making perfect copies is impossible and trying to do it is an expensive quest and hence digital has it's advantages, but the generalisation that digital is better quality is definetley wrong, it's just black and white, no shades of gray.

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    Never underestimate the dark side of the Source