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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.
You want capitalism - you get capitalism. Power always finds a vacuum.
Sounds like you fall into the "entitlement" crowd.
So you are poor. That means you are entitled to free stuff? So they are rich, that means you are entitled to take their products without giving anything back?
So you don't like being a wage-slave. Do you have any idea how much of your stuff was produced by wage-slaves? How are you going to motivate people to sew your clothes, build your house, build your computer, operate power plants to get your computer running, etc., apart from paying them?
The world is powered by wage-slaves. That doesn't make it ok to steal.
(on the other side, producing a digital product that becomes abundant the moment it exists doesn't make it ok to usurp control of everyone else's personal computer. I am sure you will agree with THAT point, since that seems to be the only angle from which you can see the issue).