Posted by FatKat on 08/10/06 21:13

Bob wrote:
> On 8 Aug 2006 22:44:54 -0700, "Gadz" <gadzometer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I think the fact remains that the internet is not going away and that
> >the makers of music and movies need to change their sales model to suit
> >current technologies.
>
> The greedy people running the entertainment industry want it both
> ways. The want to sell DVDs and they want to sell recordings.

Is there any difference? I always thought that the two were the same.

>
> Their incredible greed is surpassed only by their incredible
> stupidity.

I wouldn't say that they were all that greedy - it's just that there's
a lot of money at stake and that it's a business full of competing
companies. We look at the indistry as a monolithic whole. They look
at each other and see individual companies with perhaps an uneven
vulnerability to lost profits.

> But what else can you expect from leftist queers.

Of course, it makes little difference what they amount to - the
industry is something of a conventient whipping boy for everybody, able
to find a pleasing shape for every group. For some, it's a bunch of
right-wing Texans; for others, it's the jews. Here, leftist queers.
So far, they've extorted...er..settled for cash awards from individual
sharers and at least two peeer-share software makers, but AFAIK, nobody
has been asked to read Das Kapital while being sodomized.
>
> If they had their way, they would put a meter on your nose and charge
> you for every time you took a breath.

Yeah, but then the oil companies would just raise their prices. The
recording industry has to deal with piracy, but nobody has figured a
way to do the energy industry what WinMX, Kazaa, eMule, BT or the other
file-sharing systems and the like have done to RIAA (or, to do to the
energy industry waht they have done to the rest of us).
>
> > It's like when someone tapes a movie of TV onto
> >a video tape. How many people are theives now? The TV channels still
> >get paid advertising, they still buy the series from the producers, the
> >world still turns. And we get to see the series as soon as we
> >can...even if we aren't able to watch it the day it airs on the sci-fi
> >channel.
>
> And you can even give a friend your tape so he can watch it at his
> leisure. What you cannot do is engage in any kind of commercial
> activity with the tape.

There's quite a bit of room between "engaging in commericial activity"
and simply watching something "at your leisure". There's also
non-commercial distribution of media - making copies of what you've
seen, watching that distributing it to other people, who in turn make
it availablke for distribution to others. It's not "commerrcial" in
its strictest sense, but it has sufficient similarity - people copy and
then make their copies availabke for other downloaders, knowing that
this makes it more likely that they will be able to get others to let
them download other stuff.
>
> I have a million friends who let me see their recordings. I do not
> engage in any kind of commercial activity. I am not a thief, no matter
> what the leftist queers claim.

The recording industry doesn't care about what you see - they care
about what you spread.

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