I believe that there is an entity know as 'the box' that magically convinces something like 90% of the people 90% to devote 90% of their free time to. As I see it if you control the box you've got the attention of most of the people.
You see up for the last 2000 years of humainty up until about 100 years ago 'the box' was the bible. But then came along radio and then tv. And for 100 years radio and tv have had a vast influence on what the populace watches and listens to. Their news and their programming, but they know that slowly the internet will replace them and they will have ever an everdecreasing audience and thus less influence and revenue.
I figure that that is why the MPAA and RIAA are completely pissed at the 'whole internet thing' that they didn't even see coming. Now the tv people are shitting their pants because they are losing control and grasping at desparate measure like popup ads.
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I believe that there is an entity know as 'the box' that magically convinces something like 90% of the people 90% to devote 90% of their free time to. As I see it if you control the box you've got the attention of most of the people.
You see up for the last 2000 years of humainty up until about 100 years ago 'the box' was the bible. But then came along radio and then tv. And for 100 years radio and tv have had a vast influence on what the populace watches and listens to. Their news and their programming, but they know that slowly the internet will replace them and they will have ever an everdecreasing audience and thus less influence and revenue.
I figure that that is why the MPAA and RIAA are completely pissed at the 'whole internet thing' that they didn't even see coming. Now the tv people are shitting their pants because they are losing control and grasping at desparate measure like popup ads.
Just my $0.02
How about just having kids, As 99% of all our DNA is basically identical, would this constitute copyright infrigement?