But there's also the clueless politician that says "just give me what I want regardless" and feel because they were elected into power, they should be able to call the shots. They end up causing more problems than they fix, if they fix any at all.
The news peddles fear and the public laps it up and it's one of the saddest things about living in this country. It's disheartening how gullible and easily manipulated people are.
Lawyers and marketers. The marketers tell the studios which movies to make, and the lawyers tie up the IP as much as legally possible. The "artists" just do what they're told.
The public already sees the MPAA as rotten, greedy bastards.
All that will happen is Hood's political career will be over (until he gets a cushy job lobbying for the film industry) and the MPAA will move onto their next plan to rule the world.
Dollar figures are arbitrary. If people think a book should cost $15, that's what they'll pay. If they think it should cost $10, or $5, or $2, they'll never pay much more than that. There is no real dollar figure that book should cost - just what is perceived as the norm. The publishers were illegally colluding to raise the norm from what Amazon thought the norm should be.
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sounds like permission to me.
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that's right, they don't keep those numbers.
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Unlimited means unlimited. If they want to charge bandwidth hog more, fine, but don't call that unlimited.
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All that will happen is Hood's political career will be over (until he gets a cushy job lobbying for the film industry) and the MPAA will move onto their next plan to rule the world.
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The pen is mighty. The first step to fixing a problem is getting the story out that there is a problem.
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