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Entertainment Industry's Dystopia of the Future

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the truth-is-often-stranger dept.

renek writes "If you think the RIAA/MPAA's tactics have been outlandish, laughable, and disconcerting in the past, you haven't seen anything yet. From government-mandated spyware that deletes infringing content to border searches of media players, this reads like an Orwellian nightmare. Given the US government's willingness to bend over for Big Media it wouldn't be terribly surprising to see how far this goes and how under the radar it stays."

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  1. You're far too forgiving... by Lead+Butthead · · Score: 3, Informative

    If they treat consumers as enemies they will become enemies.

    You think as if they are NOT already treating customers as enemies.

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  2. This is a tired myth by istartedi · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Nothing gets made in the U.S. and exported anymore BUT movies, music, etc." [citation needed]

    Try this for starters.

    Please note, I'm not picking on you in particular. You, like a lot of intelligent people, have come down with a nasty case of memes wrt to the composition of output in the US economy.

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    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
  3. Re:Don't forget... by drsmithy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mark my words, what we ended up with is going to be even worse than the mess we had before, [...]

    What's interesting is it's basically identical to the system in Switzerland (compulsory health insurance from private companies, subsidies for the poor), and there it seems to work quite well (base on my few years living there).

    (Not that I think it will work in the US - way too much corruption here from what I've seen so far.)