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The MPAA and EFF Cross Sabers
wigwamus writes "Motion Picture Association President Dan Glickman and Electronic Freedom Foundation co-founder Johh Perry Barlow lock horns, then knock lumps off each other over the movie business' attitude to the Internet. From the article: 'These are aging industries run by aging men, and they're up against 17-year-olds who have turned themselves into electronic Hezbollah because they resent the content industry for its proprietary practices.'"
People with real world business experience going up against young idealists. Guess what? Business always wins. Always has, always will.
That's really what it comes down to. People can debate the morality and legality all they want... but if people keep wanting something for nothing, there's going to be no more something eventually.
I'm more of the opinion that once the RIAA & MPAA come out with reasonably, affordable distribution schemes everyone can be happy... sure their industry may only generate multi-millionaires instead of billionaires, but I'm sure they can live with that. (And no, a buck a song for less than CD quality DRM'd music is not an affordable distrubtion scheme... go losless for 50 cents, and then maybe we're talking)
Unfortunately people like the grandparent post make a reasonable and affordable distribution scheme hard to implement since they basically just come out and say, hey, if you make it available I'm going to steal it! Which results in all sorts of DRM which doesn't stop them anyway, and turns me off from buying your goods (especially if they're already compressed since my player may not handle your DRM and to decode/re-encode is both time consuming and quality degrading)
i declair a jihad against all draconian corporate greed, specially the MPAA & RIAA...
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