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Movie Industry to sue File Sharers
Wack Valenti writes "SiliconValley.com reports that the motion picture industry, taking a cue from the RIAA, is planning to file copyright infringement lawsuits against file sharers it says are illegally distributing movies online. The first suits could be filed as early as tomorrow."
I agree about the theaters. I can't think of a less enjoyable way to spend an hour. Dark enclosed space, inevitably with multiple people wheezing and hacking their contaminated air all over the place, annoying kids, even more annoying teenagers, people chomp chomping their junkfood and smacking their oil ridden lips, and cellphones lit up and going off the entire time. Movie industry, how about providing us a way of watching the occasional good movie without having to endure this kind of thing? You have goods, we have money to buy them with, it should be an easy solution!
Everything will be taken away from you.
Dear Sirs:
If you sell your music CDs and movie tickets for $5, I will stop trading them illegally.
Signed,
Epistax
For the millionth time, the GPL forces sharing and media copyright disallows sharing. One promotes an open society equally shared by all, the other locks down ownership of culture (in this context) in the hands of a few large corporations. They're diametrical opposites. It's a simple concept.