They're looking to have control of what is and isn't on the internet. It's not about making movies, it's about distribution of movies, which is the stronghold the MPAA has had over the American film industry since the 1920s. That's basically what big movie studios do - make distribution deals.
Three days after 9/11 we saw nothing but the best in humanity - all over the world.
It's only when a small group politicians used vengeance as an opportunity to grab power that things went to pot.
200,000 Iraqis have died as revenge for 9/11, none of whom had anything to do with 9/11, and yet those same politicians are still not avenged and are still saying it was all justified.
This also demonstrates how pdf is failing as a format and how the ebook market has successfully trained people to buy books for their readers by making it inconvenient to simply add pdfs.
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It is a moral outrage issue, because in the fantasy scenario you propose, the morality changes with the scenario. You can't change the circumstances and expect the morality to remain the same.
Seems to me they've decided that trying to stop people from pirating is futile (as proven by the music recording industry) and it's better to stop websites from offering pirated material (which they haven't realized is also futile, but is easier to legislate against).
But as anyone that's used Netflix can tell you, the easiest and quickest way to end piracy is just putting your damned movies on Netflix and making it available all over the planet.
The MPAA doesn't care if it looks bad. In fact its job is to look bad and do all the nasty legal stuff so the actual studios don't have to.
The general public might get upset about "Disney bribes politicians" but they don't give a hoot about "MPAA bribes politicians," even though it's the same thing.
It's the desire for war and power that makes him become a politician, and a ruthless one. It's not a question of what we allow. We never actually elected Cheney - he just came with the package.
Now just imagine if something happened and he became president.
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It's only when a small group politicians used vengeance as an opportunity to grab power that things went to pot.
200,000 Iraqis have died as revenge for 9/11, none of whom had anything to do with 9/11, and yet those same politicians are still not avenged and are still saying it was all justified.
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But as anyone that's used Netflix can tell you, the easiest and quickest way to end piracy is just putting your damned movies on Netflix and making it available all over the planet.
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The general public might get upset about "Disney bribes politicians" but they don't give a hoot about "MPAA bribes politicians," even though it's the same thing.
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Now just imagine if something happened and he became president.
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