Re: What I want to know is where are the artists that do support the MPAA and RIAA?
That's just it. The MPAA doesn't have those people. When Dodd was restricting, he talked about how "he fight want actors in the line of fire" to all 50 attorney generals. I took that to mean that he didn't have a lot of grassroots support for issues that affect people. You won't hear from a lot of actors in support because there are none.
The Supreme Court is hearing a case about Shell being charged in Nigeria for crimes of torture.
Now we have someone saying a business can be charged in the US with no precedence in the US. Which is it? Can we discriminate against businesses that are foreign or are they all the same?
Japan is busy locking down their culture. The same is going on in the Phillippines where just recently, they had their own SOPA style moment recently.
Further, Japan has had a recession since 1995 and no one has the ability to really invest a lot of money on entertainment. IIRC, TV consumption is going down along with internet usage. The prices are too high and the Fukushima incident has kept them occupied.
So I think they have quite a few things to worry about besides this one meme.
What were the effects of piracy? First, did the American industry suffer from cheaper foreign books being dumped on the domestic market? This does not seem to have been the case. After controlling for the type of work, the cost of the work, and other variables, the prices of American books were lower than prices of foreign books. American book prices may have been lower to reflect lower perceived quality or other factors that caused imperfect substitutability between foreign and local products. As might be expected, prices were not exogenously and arbitrarily fixed, but varied in accordance with a publisher’s estimation of market factors such as the degree of competition and the responsiveness of demand to determinants. The reading public appears to have gained from the lack of copyright, which increased access to the superior products of more developed markets in Europe, and in the long run this likely improved both the demand and supply of domestic science and literature.
The first rule of economics. If you price a product too high, people WILL go elsewhere.
I actually have a rebuttal to do on this using the hulu video. So I found a way to download it and program with it. I'm surprised no one else found out how to get the video to avoid the infomercials.
Obama is "liberal" about as much as Justice Kennedy is "less conservative" and that's the problem. If Obama truly were liberal, he would be more popular. He just recently admitted that he is a Blue Dog Democrat. In other words, he's conservative. It puts his policies into perspective. His health care keeps the health industry in power, he spends less in federal funds protecting public sector jobs (lowest federal spending out if all modern presidents), and he has a severely low grade when it comes to transparency.
If he were truly liberal, the US would have universal health care, no need for a police state, and a government that wanted to help its citizens instead of taking money from Social Security to balance the budget (which Obama plans to do unless more people become aware of his conservatism)
Kennedy... Yeah, he thinks money in politics won't corrupt... Libertarianism at its finest...
That's one of the reasons that so few people trust the media now. Too many lazy journalists that can't be bothered to follow up on stories. I blame the US' lack of enforcement of the FAIR act.
D' Souza is a partisan hack that enjoys getting attention and spotlight. He has a number of misleading statistics in this movie and cannot be bothered to correct the information that is false in this film.
Take the information in the movie with ten tons of salt.
That said, I fully believe that D' Souza would be the same type of person to upload this and blame it on political opponents. It's what the conservatives in this country have been doing for the past three years when Obama inherited a bad debt from the Bush administration.
I just sincerely hope this mode of using peavy as a scapegoat ends here when no one outside of conservative circles cares.
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Just a thought
If you could update the laws and make them relevant to the 21st century and the new digital age, how would you go about doing it?
We've lost 4th Amendment protections thanks to the Drug War and free speech is somewhat limited in the US.
What do you think could change the laws for technology given how quickly the laws have to be changed?
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Re: What I want to know is where are the artists that do support the MPAA and RIAA?
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A bad precedent...
The Supreme Court is hearing a case about Shell being charged in Nigeria for crimes of torture.
Now we have someone saying a business can be charged in the US with no precedence in the US. Which is it? Can we discriminate against businesses that are foreign or are they all the same?
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Re: Gangnam and region blocking
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Re: What the MPAA really needs...
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What a marriage...
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So was Prohibition. Stop defending people wanting to access culture.
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Re: Big in Japan, or not
Further, Japan has had a recession since 1995 and no one has the ability to really invest a lot of money on entertainment. IIRC, TV consumption is going down along with internet usage. The prices are too high and the Fukushima incident has kept them occupied.
So I think they have quite a few things to worry about besides this one meme.
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What were the effects of piracy? First, did the American industry suffer from cheaper foreign books being dumped on the domestic market? This does not seem to have been the case. After controlling for the type of work, the cost of the work, and other variables, the prices of American books were lower than prices of foreign books. American book prices may have been lower to reflect lower perceived quality or other factors that caused imperfect substitutability between foreign and local products. As might be expected, prices were not exogenously and arbitrarily fixed, but varied in accordance with a publisher’s estimation of market factors such as the degree of competition and the responsiveness of demand to determinants. The reading public appears to have gained from the lack of copyright, which increased access to the superior products of more developed markets in Europe, and in the long run this likely improved both the demand and supply of domestic science and literature.
The first rule of economics. If you price a product too high, people WILL go elsewhere.
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Re: the organized crime angle is exaggerated
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Wait, what?
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If he were truly liberal, the US would have universal health care, no need for a police state, and a government that wanted to help its citizens instead of taking money from Social Security to balance the budget (which Obama plans to do unless more people become aware of his conservatism)
Kennedy... Yeah, he thinks money in politics won't corrupt... Libertarianism at its finest...
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Re: Ryan Holiday...
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Damn phone...
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Just a sidenote
Take the information in the movie with ten tons of salt.
That said, I fully believe that D' Souza would be the same type of person to upload this and blame it on political opponents. It's what the conservatives in this country have been doing for the past three years when Obama inherited a bad debt from the Bush administration.
I just sincerely hope this mode of using peavy as a scapegoat ends here when no one outside of conservative circles cares.
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