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MPAA Names Dan Glickman To Replace Jack Valenti
Zordak writes "Fox News is reporting that the MPAA has chosen a new chief to replace Jack Valenti. Dan Glickman is an avid Linux user, a well-known consumer advocate, vehemently critical of the DMCA and a member of the EFF. Ha ha. Just kidding, Dave Barry style. Dan Glickman is actually a seasoned Washington politician, having served as a Kansas representative and agriculture secretary under President Clinton. He has previously been a lobbyist for the Walt Disney Corporation, and his son is the producer of such quality fare as 'Shanghai Knights' and 'Rush Hour.' Don't be looking for that 'approved' Linux DVD player soon."
same as the old boss.
I thought there was already one...
The MPAA and RIAA need to realize that they make many billions of dollars each year, even though they charge non-optimal prices for their content. If they charged less, I think they'd actually make more money. I hope this new guy realizes that the cost of the litigation against your average file-sharer is likely more than the gains against piracy. The key here is simple economics: more people would be able and willing to pay if music and movies cost less.
This new guy might be taking the job of Jack Valenti but I ask you who could possibly ever hope to "take the place" of good ol' Jack?
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I am going to respect change in the MPAA by changing my downloaded bittorrent movies from...
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I thought he's really an avid Linux user, and I almost believed it, before I realized that it was a joke.
I mean, come on, this is FOX. They should have some power back there, right? Geez.
I [may] disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
No no no.
First we hang'em, then we burn'em, then we shoot'em, then we kill'em.
Oh, what sweet justice.
Guess you learn something new every day...
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Dan Glickman is an avid Linux user, a well-known consumer advocate, vehemently critical of the DMCA and a member of the EFF. Ha ha. Just kidding, Dave Barry style.
How can you play with my emotions like that, you insensitive clod?
Red Bull gave me wings and I flew into the ceiling fan.
You know, paying lip-service to the demands of your 'enemies' (hey! they're not going to see us as friends) is a time-honoured "solution" to a sticky problem. So if the MPAA comes out with 'Linux users can be legitimate users if they do X, Y, and Z", even if this only applies to Linux *vendors* , they could claim a certain amount of brownie points in a courtroom.
"They refused the compromise we offered", "They steal (sic) our IP", "We demand the death penalty", (with the exception of the latter, at least I hope) these are reasonable "court" arguments. Consider the case of the clueless judge (sorry your honour, but it's a fact that most of your kin aren't technically aware), the "industry expert" (read: paid shill), the "compromise offer", and the cold hard law.The 'rock and a hard place' doesn't come into it. Yes I'm aware I'm mixing my metaphors, it's late
Let's hope they continue to deny us a 'reasonable' way of doing what we want - at least then we have a reasonable argument that they're being unreasonable. This is more important than most realise, I think....
Simon.
Physicists get Hadrons!
There's a very informative biography on him here.
An effective signature identifies a particular user amongst a base of thousands.
Um, Sonny Bono, not Bono. Please don't confuse people who might think that our future Secretary General (when the world gets all cool and Bill and Ted's revolution comes) might have done something heinous like that!
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Maybe it would just be easier to brainwash him... considering the subject, only a light rinse may be needed.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I can see why he got the job. Hes got connections in hollywood...
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Good on 'em... their loser-ness not only got me bumped up to first post, but got me modded up a point by making me look like a bloody genius in comparison. (Woulda made first post quite by accident had I been logged in when I hit the reply button).
Come on.. lay off Jackie Chan.. those movies were pretty funny (especially Rush Hour).
Jackie Chan kicks ass (literally). And he has the balls to do his own stunts (and get injured doing them).
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
It looks like this guy knows how to lobby very effectively. The MPAA is an organization whose primary purpose is to lobby for the interests of the motion picture industry. Were you really expecting someone who would take things in a new direction? (he was probably hired based on his ability to keep things the way they are!)
The only thing that's surprising to me is that he doesn't seem to have much connection to the industry. I would have expected an insider to be promoted instead of someone being hired in.
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
Whatever you'd just been smoking before coming up with this line ;-), can you let us know what it is - and where there's more of it? (SCNR:-))
Linspire has had a dvd player for Linux for a long time. Only $4.95!
"I am an Adept of Tantric VAX."
But so is a standard frost piss.
I'm sorry, but I just really have a pet peeve for geeks who don't show the slightest business-world saavy.
First off, there ARE approved DVD players running Linux, if I'm not mistaken.
Second, if by "approved" you mean "MPlayer will have the little DVD industry logo", change "not soon" to "never". There are royalties involved, and that's never going to change. The DVD consortium cares about profits from the royalties first and pleasing the movie industry second (what's the movie industry gonna do, go to another format? Stop releasing DVD disks? Uh huh).
"Supporting open source, non-royalty-paying, market-share-stealing-from-royalty-paying-players, pirates-movies-easy-as-1-2-3, bypasses-our-forced-previews-and-FBI warnings software" has never been on anyone's(manufacturers, DVD standard consortium, movie industry, MPAA) list, and if you even suggested it, you'd be blown out of the room by the severe laughing fit that resulted.
Between gasps for air, grabbing their sides, and wiping their tears, they'd say, "oh look, he's so naive, isn't that just the cutest thing in the world".
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Under Glickman's leadership, USDA has restructured and modernized its enormous, decentralized field office structure, helping cut administrative and overhead costs by about $4 billion. He also has taken a strong, personal interest in civil rights. The Department has recently reviewed its civil rights practices for the first time and has dramatically improved its commitment to fairness and equality, in both treatment of its employees and execution of its programs. At Glickman's direction, the Department settled one of the largest civil rights class action suits filed against the U.S. Government.
Unfortunately, I didn't get interested in local politics until nearly the end of his term in office, so I can't say too much about his political leanings...
Microsoft delenda est!
That's a little bit different. Some of us sometimes do have a pre-defined FP in place (I did yesterday with my Mary-Kate Olsen/Ronald Reagan FP), but that's still a timing issue. Doing a YFI isn't quite so time intensive. Granted, both should have some creativity involved, but a YFI post should be held to a higher creative standard.
Dan Glickman is an avid Linux user, a well-known consumer advocate, vehemently critical of the DMCA and a member of the EFF.
When I read that sentence, all of a sudden my heart opened up and I was filled with joy and happiness! I felt incredibly warm and fuzzy all over! :-(
The next sentence almost killed me
How insensitive and cruel some people can be!
Its called the Linspire DVD player!
Doesn't this seem like a huge conflict of interest? I realize that there's no laws against it, but wouldn't the other MPAA members worry that this guy's kid works for only one of the member companies?
Zordak writes "Fox News is reporting that the MPAA has chosen a new chief to replace Jack Valenti. Dan Glickman is an avid Linux user, a well-known consumer advocate, vehemently critical of the DMCA and a member of the EFF. Ha ha. Just kidding, Dave Barry style.
Damn you, almost gave me a heart attack!
For only $4.95! Why are the mods fucked up with crack all the time?
Should payoff big if the democrats control congress or the presidency.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Anybody think we can get an interview/Q&A session with this guy? If we can let him know a little more about our position (was it the journalist from MIT that interviewed Valenti?), maybe we can avoid an out-and-out war, and let him know we really care about this stuff...
I [may] disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
It just shows up as a bunch of boxes (non-printable characters) for me. I've deleted the spaces that Slashshit puts in it, too. Try that again, and this time get it right!
Try this. Too bad it discards the lower portion of the characters.
Only $4.95!
I work at USDA, and was here during Glickman's time. He's a pretty regular guy.
If he saw you in the hall, he'd say hi. He mostly ate in the regular employee cafeterias, instead of the Secretary's Dining Room (which has pretty the same food, but also wood paneling and table service).
His official portrait on the Patio (just past the Visitor's Center, if you come in the Whitten Building) shows him standing behind his chair, jacket on the back of the chair, with a kind of sarcastic look on his face. All the others have the usual standing-there-button-up-jacket sort.
When 50 black farmers demonstrated in front of Clinton's White House for better treatment from USDA, Bill called Dan, and Dan put together the Civil Rights Action Team (CRAT). This team made 92 recommendations to ameliorate the problem, and they were put into place by the Civil Rights Implementation Team (CRIT).
Glickman gave his full backing to this effort, which, frankly, was resisted in some of the USDA agencies cited in the CRAT Report
He always struck me as a pretty fair, stand-up kind of guy, so it wouldn't surprise me if well-reasoned, non-hostile Linux advocacy were presented to him, a major victory could be won.
I didn't think the house band in Hell would play this badly.
$39.95 is dirt cheap?!
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
As a Kansan I always thought it was funny that the Sec of Ag was a Jew from Kansas. Now things are moving closer to equilibrium as he's going to work in Hollywood.
Its called Linspire DVD player!
He looks like Mr Burns.
Because it will be even harder to justify the use of any other player.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
...he's a Democrat.
I guess that should come as no surprise from Hollywood, but it is apparently getting harder and harder for Dems to work as lobbyist on Capital Hill these days. Mr. Delay has this thing about rigid party loyalty.
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The playstation II runs linux AND plays DVDs... Most people know this but I felt like pointing it out anyway. Also I am pretty sure the M$ XBox that also plays dvds runs linux as well.
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Since we pay former congresscritters a fortune to do nothing after they get fired or quit, is there a reason we can't tie their pension into their future income? Once someone leaves congress, they should be given a choice, never work again and collect the cash or never collect the cash and work for whoever but the tax payer isn't going to be giving any handouts.
As a Kansan Glickman made his reputation by being honest, dull and hardworking. How else does a Democrat Jew get elected by a bunch rightwing Kansan farmers?
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Huh? I remember Bill and Ted, but I don't have a clue what you're talking about. IIRC, the guy they knew from the future was named "Rufus".
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.. an "approved" Linux DVD player ? Me thinks not ! When something is made legal, it takes the whole fun out of the game IMHO...
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"Zordak writes "Fox News is reporting that the MPAA has chosen a new chief to replace Jack Valenti. Dan Glickman is an avid Linux user, a well-known consumer advocate, vehemently critical of the DMCA and a member of the EFF. Ha ha. Just kidding..."
Yeah, real funny. I just shit my paints!
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This is for a number of reasons:
No thanks, I'll stick with Ogle, Xine and MPlayer.
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You know the old saying "You can't teach and old Dog... Blah, Blah, Blah."
Like we are all suprised. I mean come on, you Didn't think thay would pick someone, that actuaqlly gave a DAMN, or actually understands something other that the party line.
Begin Snippet-- Before his election to Congress in 1976, Secretary Glickman served as president of the Wichita, Kansas, School Board; was a partner in the law firm of Sargent, Klenda and Glickman; and worked as a trial attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He received his B.A. in history from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from the George Washington University. He is a member of the Kansas and District of Columbia Bars.
Secretary Glickman serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Communities in Schools; America's Second Harvest; Food Research and Action Center; RFK Memorial Foundation; and The Farm Foundation. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City. He is also on the International Advisory Board of The Coca-Cola Company; co-chairs the U.S. Consensus Council (with former Governor Marc Racicot) and The Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology (with former Congressman Vin Weber). He has been a senior fellow and part-time instructor in the public policy departments at Georgetown University and Wichita State University.
Lifted from http://www.iop.harvard.edu/who/director.html
End Snippet--
And to add to the List "head Shill for the MPAA"
My cat's picked up a Hammer. HEY! Put down that Hammer. Put Down that Hamm...THUNK!
Somebody ruined your fun!
Seriously, if we could get this guy on Ask Slashdot... that would be an amazing opportunity.
Whether dropping the price would bring additional sales depends on how many consumers put off or don't buy DVDs simply because the price seems high. Those of us who don't see the value in buying most DVDs (why pay for something I won't watch more than a couple times) won't buy even if the price is dropped by half. I'd rather rent them when I want them (at an average of $5 per rental, I can rent it 6-8 times!).
Also, dropping the price does something else. It doesn't reduce the cost of the DVD, marketing, and packaging. It only reduces the net profit earned. You can't drop the price by half and sell twice as many and balance out. It doesn't work that cleanly. You would have to drop the price by half the net profit to get that. (And somehow do this so the store still makes the same profit, or you'll have trouble there.)
I was taking one day at a time, but then several days got together and ambushed me. (from a Rhymes with Orange comic)
Why don't you try reading the page again.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
MPAA = My Parents Are Aliens
Its based on Xine, and it dosen't suck!
Do you have a url to were I can purchase this player? I've been looking for a while now.
I'd be willing to spend up to $50.
Umm.. for WAREHOUSE members! Read the page properly!
Well I, for one, am very pleased with the change we'll see with Dan Glickman in charge. His name is SO much easier to make fun of than Jack's.
"Derp de derp."
I was, but they went and nabbed the guy who was doing the cam rip. Guess I'll have to wait for the DVD rip now.
See, it could be worse ;-)
This change is really symbolic of a change in tactics. That is, the media industries previously tried to lock in their copyright monopolies by microregulation of all the hardware industries, who are now revolting.
... keep 100Million in revenue from slipping away, they won't hesitate.
So now they've switched gears. They are now going to try to lock in their monopoly by using total DRM, and probably resort suvere hardball tactics - which may even include mafia style physical violence and sabatoge of people or companies that are found trying to bypass it. Seriously, if a few burnt down buildings and a few broken legs etc
...and always struck me as a reasonable fellow. I have to say I'm somewhat encouraged.
Sonny Bono is the singer (sonny & cher turned congressman who gave us the copyright extensions.
Bono is the U2 singer and guitarist. Lately, he's been lobbying various governments to forgive 3rd world debt.
From the same party that created the DMCA.
The Sonny Bono extension act served only to bring US protection terms in line with those of Europe. See: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/annual/1998/a 98r-5.htm. Any relationship with Mickey was coincidence, unless you believe France, Germany, et al, were looking out for the Mouse's best interests...
geek. lawyer.
Hang on everyone, we are in for a rather scary political ride.. expect more anti-consumer draconian laws to be proposed, and enacted..
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Any relationship with Mickey was coincidence
Not at all. Disney heavily lobbied for this extension to get it passed shortly before a bunch of Disney's IP passed into the public domain. These facts are well documented, for example here, and here, and a lot more places like those. Just because the laws in Europe had protection terms of that length doesn't mean that those terms make sense. And just because someone at the USPTO says that the extension "ensures that American creators will enjoy the same term of protection in Europe as is provided to their European counterparts." doesn't mean that that's the real reason the extension was passed.
That's why I'm downloading a Telesync anyways. Fuck cams. cams are for loser bitches,
The Sonny Bono extension act served only to bring US protection terms in line with those of Europe.
Violating constitutional intent to "bring the US in line with Europe" is not OK. In case no one was paying attention, the US explicity requested freedom from Europe so that we may have a much more free country than anywhere else. Allowing the EU to dictate what our laws should say (and vica-versa) would have the founding fathers rolling over in their graves.
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Check www.linspire.com for a license to do DVD playback with xine. You can get a full, legal license. I think the companies responible for the DVD standard are required, either by law or by their own contracts, to license DVD to all comers willing to pay.
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Typical liberal....
You guys got my hopes up that Jack Valenti had died. That would have been a great vacation destination. Going to stomp on his grave. I guess I'll have to wait on that one.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Before he was lobby, then he became lobbier.
Now he's lobbiest!
Well now that's just fucking mean.
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Still doesn't work. Just a bunch of blocks. What font should I be using when I look at that? Or is this a loonix thing?
Ouch. I must be getting tired or something. This is the second time today I've been modded down as a Troll.
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There seems to be no indication of this on Sigma's website, but I filled out an inquiry on their site a few days ago, just to see. No response yet...
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Wow, what a ripoff. And I feel like a HUGE geek because I actually got excited reading that crap, until I got to tht end.
Well played.
Don't waste my time.
I suggest that those developers involved in software projects which are impacted by MPAA policies get in contact with Dan and present their cases in a reasoned and non-confrontational way. We may be able to partially turn around MPAA silliness.
>served as a Kansas representative and
>agriculture secretary under President Clinton
And I thought that democrats were in favor of the little guy and civil liberties.
Dan Glickman
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"I say to you that Dan Glickman is to Jack Valenti as the Boston strangler is to...that other Boston strangler."
Valenti was an advocate of public debate. I hope this guy is too, but Valenti's openness was unusual. Here's an mp3 of a debate between Lessig and Valenti (although I side with Lessig on the issue, I'd score Valenti as the winner of that debate). And here's the interview of Valenti by the MIT student.
But what's "our position"? I see a lot of posts about getting an "approved Linux DVD player". I think these posts miss the big point.
Someone will, eventually (or already?) make a proprietary DVD player for GNU/Linux, and then people can install it, and then where will we be? We'll be as good/bad as Microsoft Windows.
GNU/Linux is a nicer OS to use because everyone's free to share it and collaborate in it's development. Free software DVD players can't be produced because they are prohibited by the DMCA.
The goal was freedom and we've come too far to give up on that. We don't need an "approved" player, we need permission for the public to write DVD players.
Expert in software patents or patent law? Contribute to the ESP wiki!
That's not for Linux, that's only for Linspire. It doesn't count.
MOD PARENT UP!
I only get 1 vacation, and I'd hate to have to choose between peeing on Ronald Reagan's grave, and peeing on Jack Valenti's grave.
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Bravo sah, Bravo!
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Disnet had lobbiest in those countries as well as the US.
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Astroturfing now, Linspire? For shame.
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Hangin's too good for them,
BURNin's too good for them,
They should be ripped into ITSY!BITSY! PIECES! AND BURRIED ALIVE!!!
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Why do we allow them to get government posistions? That's like letting a terrorist drive a plane...
Who do I have to blackmail to get some representation around here!?!?!?!?
The RIAA and MPAA seem to get whatever they wish for, correct? It has been widely reported their proposed unedited legislation is regularly introduced for a vote. This access to government is above and beyond what any of the 'lowly' people have.
So perhaps they are the NEW congress.
If we logically follow that notion, if they make the laws, you should DEMAND representation. One person at the helm of the {RIAA,MPAA} is just not good enough.
Good old satire. If someone built and run the above website with complete mock seriousness, it would probably stick in some people's craw, which is just what you want.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
And I thought that democrats were in favor of the little guy and civil liberties.
You really need to share that weed you're smoking with the rest of the class.
LK
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I.A.T.S.E anyone?
I worked as a stagehand years ago and quite often had trouble getting decent work because I wasn't Union. The union guys were making at least $20/hr *more* than I was at the time (90's)
I'd wager thatn $75,000/yr is for an entry-level Grip/Best Boy these days.
You were allies of the Nazis during WWII, weren't you?
Dont let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.
...damn, my dyslexia!
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
Yeah, except the Supreme Court said it didn't violate the Constitution. They're the legal representative for constitutional intent, after all.
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They said it didn't violate the *letter* of the constitution. The Founding Fathers apparently expected future generations to be a bit smarter and left them some leeway. Instead it has been abused by slowly striping away the US's ability to advance literature and science.
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"a seasoned Washington politician, having served as a Kansas representative and agriculture secretary under President Clinton. "
It's nice to keep the political kissass people close to the money. It expedites the payoffs.
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That's your opinion. The Supreme Court is perfectly capable of interpreting the Constitution beyond the letter; they simply didn't choose to this time around. They didn't feel it necessary.
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No, they specifically said that the constitution was too vague to easily define how long is too long. Thus the decision of the Supreme Court was that they could not impose limitations unless the copyright period could be provably demonstrated to be "unreasonably long".
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Fine, fine. The entire point of my response was to point out that the Court said that the extension did not violate the constitution, and that your statement to the contrary was just your opinion.
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I guess it did.
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And that's just their opinion, which though it is not easily appealable, it is far from indisputable. And, if I remember correctly, the court's opinion in this case was that the term was indeed too long, but it was the prerogative of Congress to make that decision officially. A real cop-out in my opinion. They basically said, "Yeah, it's an Unconstitutional law, but we don't have the nerve to strike it down because we Fear the Mouse or something."
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No, they said "this might not be wise policy, but it's not unconstitutional". Their job was to determine if it violated the Constitution; they said it did not.
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I read that article. Pointing out that the architecture of the XBox is similiar to a PC, a couple of guys worked on compiling Linux on the XBox, but just as a "can it be done" query, and not as a Linux workstation of any standing (they blame lack of driver support, and info, for the XBox for this).
Sure, it can Linux, but.......
I, for one, welcome our new MPAA overlord!
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
ooooooh yeah, it was in Metamod.
enjoy your unfair rating, assfuck.
I, for one, welcome our new Linux-and-EFF-loving overlo-
What's that you say?!?