The MPAA and RIAA can go fuck themselves

[Hugabear]

If the MPAA, RIAA, and other Big Entertainment corporations had their way, our technology would be stuck in the 70's, and they would be perfectly fine with that. They have been against almost every major innovation over the past 30+ years. They've been against VCR's, rewritable CD's and DVD's, personal computers, portable music players, file-sharing, you name it. They would be perfectly happy if the internet completely went away if it meant that nobody could illegally download a copy of Billy Madison. They have absolutely no qualms over invading our privacy - they would, if they could, search each and every one of our homes and offices to determine if we own anything that they disapprove of - and then haul us to court and force us to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars or spend time in prison.

They have become so fucking greedy that they have declared all-out WAR on their own customers.

FUCK THEM. FUCK THEM ALL, THE FUCKING GREEDY BASTARDS

[joshcryer]

1. They're a dying breed. Tech changes. They can't adapt. It's over.

They're done. Give 'em 10-20 years at most.

[Ecumenist]

2. That's what I said!!!!

[Neoma]

3. Yeah...

What you said.

[jberryhill]

4. They were against blank recording tape

Did you know they STILL get a cut of blank tape sales?

Blank fucking tape. Go look up that one if you don't remember it.

[On the Road]

5. Without Al Gore's Internet Legislation

and the FCC's resistance to metered access charges, we would all be on Videotex islands paying $.75 a minute.

I am a little conflicted about copyright violations, but SOPA is over the top. WAY over the top. WAY WAY WAY over the top.

[OriginalGeek]

6. Lol, When CDR came out they forced manufacturers

to create blanks labeled "audio" that cost a little more than data blanks of the same size.

They were the EXACT SAME BLANKS as the data CDs but they got a cut of the extra cost. The "audio" CDs had an extra data bit on them that told stand-alone home recorders (CD burners that needed no computer - they hooked to your stereo like a tape deck does) that it was OK to record on. Home stand-alone recorders wouldn't record on data CDRs.

But you could record audio on data CDs on your PC based burner all day long. What a freakin scam.

And the worst part is that even if you used the more expensive audio CDRs, they still considered you a pirate if you made a dupe of your favorite CD. AND I doubt the artist got much, if any, of that extra money.

[Hugabear]

8. This is why they are so hell-bent on digital distribution

They would love nothing more than to see physical hard copies of movies, music, and video games go bye-bye.

For example, let's say that you enjoy playing video games. Right now, you can go buy the latest games, play them until you're tired of them, then sell them or trade them in. The video game producers don't get any of that $$$ whenever games are resold or traded. Buy going to a digital-download only system, they would eliminate that problem. If you want a video game, you would be forced to buy it directly from the manufacturer, at whatever price they want.

I remember here in Florida, they actually tried to make it against the law to sell used music CD's in pawn shops, or at least make it very difficult to do so.

[guitar man]

14. I remember that

I had one of the original Phillips CDR870 machines. You could cheat it by loading one of the expensive audio blanks into it, let it identify it, then pull the cd tray out by hand and drop a data cd blank into it and push it back in

When they came out with the model 880 they put a micro switch on it so you couldn't cheat it

[ellisonz]

7. Agreed. n/t

[msongs]

9. yeah GET EVEN with em, write your own songs and make your own movies..

that'll show all those songwriters and extras who's boss

[JI7]

11. great music and movies would be made regardless

[JI7]

10. yup, fuck them

[superpatriotman]

12. Kick

Fuck your movies. Fuck your music. Fuck your garbage.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. It is their own fault they are Obsolete.

MPAA: If they didn't charge $5 for a DVD then charge $25 for a downloadable version. That is greed right there.
RIAA: Instead of embracing the technology, they tried to shut down Napster and just started looking like greedy bastards.
Book Publishers are going to go the same direction if they aren't careful. Charging me the same or more money for a book download as you do a paperback is tantamount to rape.