Meanwhile, this is the direction that the Conservative government of Stephen Harper in Canada is taking. Mandatory minimums. Expanding what you can be arrested and jailed for. New prisons. Good times for the law and order sector.
Back in reality, the Provinces are balking at the Federal government's proposal and asking 'who is paying for this'? Several Republican Governors have told Harper not to proceed with mandatory minimums due to the budget hit of new prisons.
This is the standard MO of the right-wing. If someone's opinion differs from your opinion, label them as un-American and a threat to society and have them arrested.
It's just like the guy who got arrested for wearing an Occupy jacket in the history exhibit at the United States Supreme Court: http://bit.ly/x3j0Le
Too funny. The RIAA is definitely concerned about competition. Competition tends to lower prices which means a smaller margin which means less profit which means smaller bonuses and stock options.
Hogwash. The movie studios and record companies have plenty of solutions such as changing their business models. But they don't want to change. They want everyone else to change their business models.
I guess Rupe hasn't heard of Hollywood Accounting. You know Rupe, the practice where a blockbuster movie 'loses' money despite raking hundreds of millions at the box office and via DVD/Blu-ray sales?
The "bad music" meme is a tired old argument. Music is no worse or better than one year ago, 10 years ago or 50 years ago. New artists continue to breakthrough and the Internet provides a new tool for those artists that don't have contracts with record companies.
CDs are obsolete, at least in first-world countries. My kids don't ask me to take them to Best Buy, Walmart or a record store to buy a CD. They ask me to buy their music via iTunes. It's only a matter of time before the major retailers stop selling CDs. Even the DVD/Blu-ray sections are getting smaller.
High-resolution audio is a niche market at best. The vast majority of music listeners are not going to benefit from high-resolution audio when listening to the music through a pair of ear buds.
If you combine "Motion picture, video, and sound recording industries" and "Arts, entertainment, and recreation" together, you get a total of 2.235 million jobs and a chained output of 260 billion dollars in 2008. The construction, food, chemical manufacturing, computer and electronic product manufacturing, and
transportation equipment manufacturing industries all had greater output.
"Automotive repair and maintenance" is bigger than "Motion picture, video, and sound recording industries" in terms of jobs and output. But we have to protect the legacy entertainment sector.
I believe that movie studios and music labels are not part of "arts, entertainment and recreation" but are included in "Motion picture, video, and sound recording industries" (code 512), which is even smaller than "Arts, entertainment and recreation".
I guarantee you that if the movie companies eliminated copy protection and regional and format windowing that they would make more money. Most people don't have the aptitude or time to download a movie.
My wife buys fewer DVDs these days because she has encountered problems playing legally-purchased DVDs. Fortunately, I was able to rip the problem disc and remove all the protection. But many people don't know how to do that, so they just suffer through it. You may be able to get a replacement disc, but I'm sure they the companies will make you go through hoops - after all we are all pirates to them.
Since getting a flat screen TV, my interest in seeing a movie at a theater has fallen. The picture is clear and sharp, the sound isn't overly loud, the floor is clean, the chairs and couch are ultra comfortable and I can pause what I'm watching to go for a pee or food break.
Exactly. Think of the entertainment choices people had a mere 30 years ago and compare that to the choices we have today.
In my own house, I have two TVs (one with an HD PVR), a PS3, a PS2, an iPod Touch, an iPad, an iPad2, a couple of Sony mp3 players, a laptop, a desktop computer, three Nintendo DS units and the almighty Internet. God, I haven't even left the house yet and I have a multitude of entertainment choices (and I didn't even mention things like board games and toys).
That's what movie and record companies are competing with. Not piracy.
"The only websites that have to worry about this act are big businesses like google, or crooked websites charging for pirated materials like pirate bay."
Ask the dead people sued by the entertainment industry for copyright infringement. Or ask Dajaz1 what they think about losing their website for over year without ever being found guilty of anything. Take those rose-colored glasses off.
BTW, Pirate Bay doesn't have any material, so I'm not sure how it is charging for that material. Do you even know what the Internet is?
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Back in reality, the Provinces are balking at the Federal government's proposal and asking 'who is paying for this'? Several Republican Governors have told Harper not to proceed with mandatory minimums due to the budget hit of new prisons.
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It's just like the guy who got arrested for wearing an Occupy jacket in the history exhibit at the United States Supreme Court: http://bit.ly/x3j0Le
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CDs are obsolete, at least in first-world countries. My kids don't ask me to take them to Best Buy, Walmart or a record store to buy a CD. They ask me to buy their music via iTunes. It's only a matter of time before the major retailers stop selling CDs. Even the DVD/Blu-ray sections are getting smaller.
High-resolution audio is a niche market at best. The vast majority of music listeners are not going to benefit from high-resolution audio when listening to the music through a pair of ear buds.
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transportation equipment manufacturing industries all had greater output.
"Automotive repair and maintenance" is bigger than "Motion picture, video, and sound recording industries" in terms of jobs and output. But we have to protect the legacy entertainment sector.
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My wife buys fewer DVDs these days because she has encountered problems playing legally-purchased DVDs. Fortunately, I was able to rip the problem disc and remove all the protection. But many people don't know how to do that, so they just suffer through it. You may be able to get a replacement disc, but I'm sure they the companies will make you go through hoops - after all we are all pirates to them.
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In my own house, I have two TVs (one with an HD PVR), a PS3, a PS2, an iPod Touch, an iPad, an iPad2, a couple of Sony mp3 players, a laptop, a desktop computer, three Nintendo DS units and the almighty Internet. God, I haven't even left the house yet and I have a multitude of entertainment choices (and I didn't even mention things like board games and toys).
That's what movie and record companies are competing with. Not piracy.
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Ask the dead people sued by the entertainment industry for copyright infringement. Or ask Dajaz1 what they think about losing their website for over year without ever being found guilty of anything. Take those rose-colored glasses off.
BTW, Pirate Bay doesn't have any material, so I'm not sure how it is charging for that material. Do you even know what the Internet is?
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