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Hollywood's Secret War With Google
cpt kangarooski writes: Information has come to light (thanks to the recent Sony hack) that the MPAA and six major studios are pondering the legal actions available to them to compel an entity referred to as 'Goliath,' most likely Google, into taking aggressive anti-piracy action on behalf of the entertainment industry. The MPAA and member studios Universal, Sony, Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros., and Disney have had lengthy email discussions concerning how to block pirate sites at the ISP level, and how to take action at the state level to work around the failure of SOPA in 2012. Emails also indicate that they are working with Comcast (which owns Universal) on some form of traffic inspection to find copyright infringements as they happen.
The liberal Hollywood elite sold out to megacorp bean counters a long time ago. Now the studios are nothing more than subsidaries of large global conglomerates.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I think you're confusing the actors and directors with the studios. Those groups have very often been very liberal, but the studio heads care only about money, and they will cozy up with anyone they think has it, and attack anyone who dares threaten it. If real fascists took over the United States tomorrow, Hollywood would quite happily begin producing films supporting that ideology. Essentially, the heads of the big studios are soulless accountants and lawyers.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
So read it on TD https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141212/12142629419/leaked-emails-reveal-mpaa-plans-to-pay-elected-officials-to-attack-google.shtml [techdirt.com]
This is not SOPA 2. It's pretty bad, but it's entirely unlike SOPA. See the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8740339
I know that it's a time-consuming thing to do, but it's very important to read legislation before accepting media reports about it. Because journalists are often as lazy as Congresscritters, the news is often wrong about everything but the title of a particular piece of legislation.