11-06-2009, 03:27 PM | #1 |
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MPAA Wants Congress to ‘Encourage’ 3 Strikes, Filtering
It all started in France....
"The Motion Picture Association of America wants Congress to “encourage” internet providers to filter out pirated movies, and to punish customers who repeatedly engage in piracy with a “graduated response” that might include disconnection from the net. .... READ MORE " |
11-06-2009, 03:41 PM | #2 | |
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actually, it started in New Zealand :
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(sorry, i just really don't want france to be remembered as the first country to enact such a backwards and abusive legislation. it's bad enough just to be one of the group). this is a sorry state of affairs in the world currently, i have to say. |
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11-06-2009, 05:19 PM | #3 |
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not that there are any of us here to worry our little heads ....
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11-06-2009, 05:31 PM | #4 | |
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Yes, but France invented the fix. I've got dibs on the seat by the tumbrel.... |
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11-06-2009, 05:34 PM | #5 |
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really ? personally i begin to feel very worried when governments begin to put corporate interests ahead of civil liberties, personal privacy, due process...
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11-06-2009, 05:38 PM | #6 |
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Seems like the best time to post this clip from a film that was made 33 years ago, but still rings true today.
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11-07-2009, 03:33 AM | #7 | ||
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There are to many risks of errors. And my ISP should not give my personal data to ANYONE. Solution to piracy is simple : make sure the legal offer is affordable, easy to use, better quality than the illegal offer. The day drm and regional restriction are gone, we would have done a big step in that direction. Quote:
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What do you think should be done to people who persistantly illegally download material and ignore repeated warnings not to do so? |
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11-07-2009, 04:41 AM | #10 | |
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When TV shows are aired in France years after the US, if at all, why be surprised ? Thing like Hulu (ie ads supported streaming), is an other way to go. But Hulu is US only. Not that long ago, amazon and the fnac when proposing mp3. So went went buying some music. When drm where there, no way ! Buying CD ? Usually ended up by "20 euro for a cd ? no go !". Because we don't need music or film, we're more exigent toward price or quality. You can't force people to buy stuff they don't need. Rather that sending their (potential) customers to court, they should ask themselves that one question "what's wrong with the product I'm proposing ?". And sending you customers to court never was a good commercial strategy... Last edited by EowynCarter; 11-07-2009 at 04:51 AM. |
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11-07-2009, 04:44 AM | #11 |
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surely people who are persistently downloading material illegally despite warnings are beyond decency ... ...and then the post gets edited... Programs from the US always take a year or three to cross the large body of water; as they do in the other direction. Last edited by GeoffC; 11-07-2009 at 04:46 AM. |
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The argument often posed by pirates themselves is "I would never have bought it, so nobody's lost anything". That appears to suggest that there many people who would not buy things, no matter how cheaply they were priced.
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11-07-2009, 01:23 PM | #13 |
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I belive they only believe they wouldn't buy it anyway, and when presented with an option to watch/read/listen to/use in a second, as opposed to searching it out on pirate networks, they would just click.
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11-07-2009, 02:40 PM | #14 |
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One of Peter Mandelson's bright ideas; he appears to have picked it up on a freebie holiday with some wealthy chums. All open and above board I'm sure; in no way should this be misconstrued as British government policy for sale. Peter Mandelson is an honest politician!
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/...cle6797844.ece "Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, ordered officials to draw up draconian regulations on internet piracy just days after he had a private dinner with a Hollywood mogul who is a critic of illegal file-sharing. ...The business secretary’s intervention comes after a meeting last weekend with David Geffen, the billionaire producer who co-founded the DreamWorks studio with Steven Spielberg. Mandelson and Geffen dined on August 7 with members of the Rothschild banking dynasty at the family’s holiday villa on the Greek island of Corfu." |
11-07-2009, 04:11 PM | #15 |
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That's the problem right there: The various media industries justify pushing these sort of things by claiming they have lost sales to piracy. But how do you lose a sale on someone who was never going to buy to begin with?
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