Hollywood Decides If It Can't Succeed At Home, It Might As Well Force DRM Into Foreign TVs
from the always-another-market-to-piss-off-somewhere dept
One thing about Hollywood lobbying groups is that they're somewhat relentless. You can stop a ridiculously bad legislative effort in one place, only to see it pop up somewhere else a month later. They attack pretty much all possible avenues to get regulations that heavily favor and protect their obsolete business model. No wonder MPAA and RIAA execs are paid so well. The EFF has the latest story, which notes that various Hollywood studios who haven't had as much luck requiring TV makers to include DRM into TVs in the US are working on a separate project to force DRM into the standards used throughout the rest of the world, which would effectively mandate that TVs include one particular technology, which will basically serve to make the TVs costlier, but won't do squat to actually stop copying. It's unclear what the studios actually think they gain from this. The content will still get copied and will still be available online. No DRM is going to stop that. If anything, all this will do is serve to piss off users who will wonder why they can't properly record something. All for an added cost. In an age where television broadcasting is facing increased competition from a variety of other sources, doing stuff that only pisses off your viewers doesn't seem like a particularly intelligent strategy.
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These guys will never do any good. ever.
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I doubt it does nothing.
Even a company saying ‘don't copy this’, stops some people from coping.
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uhm
I doubt it does nothing.
Even a company saying ‘don't copy this’, stops some people from coping.
No, it will do squat. The point being, there are other mediums out there that people can turn to that lend itself much better to copying.
And what Hollywood is trying to do is the equivalent of running to mom when dad says no. They´ll try and weasel it into foreign legislature, using american trade as a lever (just as they did with sweden when they wanted to shut down Pirate Bay), and then they'll run back to dad and scream "but mom said yes".
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Hilary Rosen of the RIAA & Iraq
To turn Iraq into a corporate haven with laws favoring business taken to the extreme. Oil owned by Bush & Cheney buddies, ultra low corporation tax, and 100% profit repatriation (i.e. Neocon supporters would own the oil, sell it from Iraq, take low tax profits out of the country and laugh all the way to their Cayman Islands banks).
http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html
And now it turns out that one of the architects of this ideological nonsense was none other than Hilary Rosen of the RIAA, who crafted the copyright legislation.
http://www.gregpalast.com/swimming-against-the-mainstream/
"Since my interview with Palast, he has named one member of the Iraqi “Disneyland”. Palast has said that Hilary Rosen, chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), is helping draft copyright legislation for the new administration in Iraq. Currently in the US, the RIAA is using the judicial system to hunt down fileswappers it deems guilty of violating copyright laws. Interestingly enough, none of the accused are America Online subscribers - AOL/Time Warner happens to be an RIAA member. Palast has declared Madonna to be the winner of the Iraq war."
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hollywood boycott
What happens if a country apecifies that any existing rights must be maintained? There it would be legal to circumvent the DRM.
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If a person knew how to use the internet tubes would they willingly subscribe to A-O-Hell? That point is very flawed.
As for Madonna winning the war in Iraq... The culture difference makes Madonna the absolute worst choice. 1. They don't like women to show any more skin in public than needed. 2. They don't allow their women to sing.
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