An infographic…
As one commenter notes in his own deconstruction of the infographic (whose notes were really hard to read), some of the math doesn’t quite add up. Okay, I’ll give you that.
But the basic message remains accurate: Hollywood has thrown massive amounts of money at trying to halt or limit new technology that they saw as infringing on their massive profits. We shouldn’t let them win where SOPA is concerned.
h/t: Hankers
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Hollywood is not so much at war against technooogy (remember all the cashola they make on computer generated fantasy now) as they are at war against anyone or thing which represents an alternative to their monopoly on selling popular culture.
These greedy shitwads begrudge you eben sharing a copy of a DVD or MP3 (you paid way too much for) with friends or family – this is called fair use – its the thing that drove technology in the era before monopolist greed ran Washington. Remember cassettes and VCRs for recording shows and movies? Well the new tech makes it harder or impossible to make copies without paying – they resent any file sharing that superceds their monopolist greed head intents.
I used to be a staunch supporter of intellectual rights – I still am. But I want the artist to benefit from the copyright not huge grasping corporate monopolis who control the distribution and copyrights of art/culture – these are pricks who would shut down your internet freedom and freedom of speech and fair trais if it means losing a penny they can squeeze out of an artist’s popularity.
From now on I’m into the file sharing loop and will be spending as little as possible on vended CDs, DVDs or other machinations of the corporate culture industry monopolists.
With new encripted tech no one can tell where you got a file,- when they start sending the FBI out to do 3rd party computer sweeps on the networks to enforce this corporate greed, you needn’t worry about your internet being oppressed, all your other rights will be gone by that time because enforcement of that sort takes a fascist government (a melding of corporations and government).
Internet is not the power that can be easily stopped or filtered, and the government should have been thought about it before trying to adopt such a contradicting law. Reading of how much the actors received for their roles, whou would count the losses from pirate versions. In compare to Hollywood benefits it is nothing.
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