MPAA: Online Privacy Hurts Anti-Piracy Enforcement

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Imagine any other industry on the planet trying to make this argument. :rolleyes:

The MPAA has submitted an overview of international "trade barriers" to the U.S. Government, which they see as harmful to the video and movie industries. Online privacy is listed as a serious problem, as it prevents copyright holders and local authorities from going after online pirates.
 
“Some governments will consider it too risky to have thousands of anonymous, untraceable, unverified citizens – “hidden people;” they’ll want to know who is associated with each online account and will require verification at a state level, in order to exert control over the virtual world.”
- Google Chairman Eric Schmidt
 
Just part of the death throes of a dying film industry that's going to be dragged kicking and screaming into technological change. We saw the same thing with the music industry a decade or so ago.
 
Generally if i have money i will go see a movie in theater but if I'm dirt poor i just watch it at a friends. I try to support good movies by watching them in the theater, like i saw jurassic world 3 times in 3d, but when bills roll in and its no longer in theater or on netflix/hulu I'm not inclined to pay 20$ for a physical copy, but 2-3$ on on demand.... Maybe
 
Steve said:
Imagine any other industry on the planet trying to make this argument. :rolleyes:

The MPAA has submitted an overview of international "trade barriers" to the U.S. Government, which they see as harmful to the video and movie industries. Online privacy is listed as a serious problem, as it prevents copyright holders and local authorities from going after online pirates.
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While I'm glad the isps stick up for End users, let's not pretend those isn't because it serves their bottom line. These same companies turn over records to three police without a warrant.
 
The only thing hurting them is the fact that they won't adapt.

The music industry figured it out.

The video game industry figured it out.

The movie industry needs to get with the times. Whining about "pirates" when it's really just an economic consequence of poor access and buying politicians to empower private goon squads won't put the genie back in the bottle.
 
Cmdrmonkey said:
Just part of the death throes of a dying film industry that's going to be dragged kicking and screaming into technological change. We saw the same thing with the music industry a decade or so ago.
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And that's not working out very well for the artists (esp newer ones).
 
Cmdrmonkey said:
Just part of the death throes of a dying film industry that's going to be dragged kicking and screaming into technological change. We saw the same thing with the music industry a decade or so ago.
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Death throes? Movie industry is bigger and more profitable than ever.
 
Dear MPAA,

Eat a bag of dicks.

Signed,
Every sane individual that is fed up with your bullshit.
 
Ordeith said:
- Google Chairman Eric Schmidt
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What the fuck, man? :eek::confused::rolleyes: That's like listening to Hitler tell you how nice the jews are.

"We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about;" Google Chairman Eric Schmidt 10‐1‐10 per Business Insider.
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"Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it," said Google Chairman Schmidt 10‐1‐10 , the Atlantic.
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"No harm, no foul," concerning discovery of Google's secret and unauthorized collection of WiFi signals in 33 countries over three years, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt to the BBC in May 2010.
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"It's a future where you don't forget anything… In this new future you're never lost...We will know your position down to the foot and down to the inch over time;" explained Google Chairman Eric Schmidt at the TechCrunch Disrupt , 9‐28‐10.
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"Because we say so." Google Chairman Eric Schmidt responding to Neil Cavuto's question: "How do we know you have deleted our information" when we request it be deleted? per Fox News11‐6‐09.
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“I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," Google Chairman Eric Schmidt told the WSJ 8‐14‐10.
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“Search will be included in people’s brains… When you think about something and don’t really know much about it, you will automatically get information… eventually you’ll have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you the answer.” Google co-founder Larry Page describing his ambition for search to Newsweek’s Stephen Levy in 2004, per the Guardian 1-19-13.
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Honestly, Alphabet, Google, Android, and Sergey Brin/Eric Schmidt/Larry Page can all eat each others shit and DIAF in my opinion. They're the biggest factor in making anonymity online extinct. There is no way they're not selling access to the US GOV. That kind of access is worth billions annually. I know, it's crazy to think it, until it's not. ;)
 
Sovereign said:
The only thing hurting them is the fact that they won't adapt.

The music industry figured it out.

The video game industry figured it out.

The movie industry needs to get with the times. Whining about "pirates" when it's really just an economic consequence of poor access and buying politicians to empower private goon squads won't put the genie back in the bottle.
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Music Industry's solution was Britney Spears like stars and basically selling with nationwide celebrities, whores, celebrity whores, and concerts & other visual outlets. The movie industry already has Porn and Celebrities and is national. The music industry has concerts to promote the celebrity-centric approach. Movies analog would be Theatre. They don't quite have the same options.
 
xJ321x said:
What the fuck, man? :eek::confused::rolleyes: That's like listening to Hitler tell you how nice the jews are.
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Great post.















Honestly, Alphabet, Google, Android, and Sergey Brin/Eric Schmidt/Larry Page can all eat each others shit and DIAF in my opinion. They're the biggest factor in making anonymity online extinct. There is no way they're not selling access to the US GOV. That kind of access is worth billions annually. I know, it's crazy to think it, until it's not. ;)[/QUOTE]
 
nilepez said:
And that's not working out very well for the artists (esp newer ones).
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NO one deserves to live off of how many times something is played. ARTISTS should make money from performing, not from trivially reproducible material.
 
Spire3660 said:
NO one deserves to live off of how many times something is played. ARTISTS should make money from performing, not from trivially reproducible material.
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Then by that logic all the work programmers do should also be free to copy. Do programmers need to do live performances now to get paid?
 
Spidey329 said:
Still too many middleman types taking absorbent cuts.
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No even indie bands are getting very little from Spotify.
Prices for albums on Amazon are less today than they were in the mid 80s and that's before inflation.

It's not just a label. And FYI if you're not established and you don't have a label you have almost no shot.
 
Spire3660 said:
NO one deserves to live off of how many times something is played. ARTISTS should make money from performing, not from trivially reproducible material.
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So you want to double or triple the price of club shows? Or did you not realize that many bands typically lose money on the road?
 
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