Hollywood and the hackers
This is an interesting interview between John Perry Barlow of the EFF and Dan Glickman of the MPAA here on the BBC website.
The fact of the matter is that people who create content for movies and television have to make a profit. If they don't you won't see all this wonderful stuff and listen to it.Quote: "all this wonderful stuff"
Has this man actually WATCHED the rubbish that is being pumped out of Hollywood these days?
Remixes of comic books that were crap in the first place, sexist ultra-violent trash designed for people who are 14 years old in mind or body, yet another sequel of yet another film that was a pile of stinking ordure in the first place but has a "bankable" star and a plot a demented 6 year old toddler on acid might have written.
I wouldn't pirate any of their crap even if they paid me - seriously - I can wander down the rental shop and plonk down some spare change on a film I might like - but to waste my time watching Hollywood rubbish just because some people choose to fill up p2p file sharing networks with it - no thank you.
Meanwhile all the "electronic Hezbollah" who Perry Barlow claims, are not "copying and distributing movies not because they care about seeing the movies" but "because they want to stick it to the movie business." are helping big media, big business and the government to call for stronger and stronger restrictions on what we can do on the Internet.
SoI am caught in the middle of an Internet sluggish because of p2p film sharing of films that are rubbish anyhow and also I get an Internet becuase its more restricted because of all the p2p file sharing of films that I never want to see - a classic no-win situation for anyone who doesn't engage in copyright violation via the Internet.
Welcome to the 21st Century web where the battle is between the promotors of rubbish and the promotors of the fair rights of people to watch that rubbish.
Tags: mpaa, hollywood, fatcats, eff, perry barlow, electronic hezbollah, copyright violation