RIAA, MPAA Trying To Influence Presidential Candidates

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First they wanted to block federal funding to universities, now the RIAA and MPAA are trying to influence the presidential race.

The requests came Tuesday in the form of a letter (PDF) and a questionnaire (PDF), dispatched by the Washington-based Copyright Alliance to 17 candidates vying for Democratic or Republican nominations next year. The group has requested responses to its questionnaire by early January of next year and plans to make the answers public.
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Yeah, as if making those arsehole studios and industry suits richer is such an important thing in this election, compared to the rest of the shit going on, like wars, poverty, people without healthcare, homelessness, environment... If I were a presidential candidate, I would print out the questionnaire, take a hardy dump, wipe my ass with it, and send that to them.
 
What a pointless endeavor. Despite all their money, the RIAA has a dirty image that even a politician would want to avoid. Copyright law hasn't changed, the technology has. Attempts to put a stop on technology have not worked well. Flow with it or die.
 
Fooshnik said:
What a pointless endeavor. Despite all their money, the RIAA has a dirty image that even a politician would want to avoid. Copyright law hasn't changed, the technology has. Attempts to put a stop on technology have not worked well. Flow with it or die.
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Sorry but these are politicians we are talking about. They will whore themselves to the highest bidder, those "ethics" be damned.

Though if the questions are of the "Yes or No" variety then the candidates will not touch the questionaire as they are incapable of giving such a straight forward answer.
 
MH Knights said:
Sorry but these are politicians we are talking about. They will whore themselves to the highest bidder, those "ethics" be damned.

Though if the questions are of the "Yes or No" variety then the candidates will not touch the questionaire as they are incapable of giving such a straight forward answer.
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I bet they all answer, and all of the answers for each question will be dissertations of complete and utter rambling ambiguities.
 
The group has requested responses to its questionnaire by early January of next year and plans to make the answers public.
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If I were a candidate, I'd tell them where they can stick their questionaire.
 
Charger69 said:
The RIAA and MPAA can collectively stick it :mad:
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I know some of you are all too ready to jump on the "hate the RIAA/MPAA" bandwagon, but for anyone who didn't actually read the article, I'll point out a few facts.

The Copyright Alliance that is behind this has 44 members, including Microsoft, Viacom, Entertainment Software Association (whose members in turn include Electronic Arts, id, Sega, Nintendo, Ubisoft, etc.), Major League Baseball, National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing, NCAA, NFL, Newspaper Association of America and many others.

Their members employ over 11 million workers, many of whom will want to know where the candidates stand on issues that can affect their livelihood.

MH Knights said:
Though if the questions are of the "Yes or No" variety then the candidates will not touch the questionaire as they are incapable of giving such a straight forward answer.
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They are not asking "yes or no" questions, though I have no doubt many of the candidates' responses will be so convoluted that you'll have no idea where they actually stand on the issues. ;)

Please provide responses to the following questions, focused on America’s IDEAS Economy:

Innovation
Copyright protection has ensured America’s creators have the opportunity to be fairly compensated for their works. How would you promote the progress of science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?

Digital Marketplace
How do you feel the rights that have served our economy and spurred creativity in the physical world should apply in the digital world?

Enforcement
How would you protect the incentive to create by committing sufficient resources to support effective civil and criminal enforcement of copyright laws domestically and internationally?

American Competitiveness
How would you ensure inclusion of copyright protections in bilateral, regional and multilateral trade agreements to protect creators and foster global development?

Speech
How would you protect the rights of creators to express themselves freely under the principles established in the First Amendment?
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The wording of their questions is deliberate and evil. Just read them, they are gangloaded with traps. They aren't interested in the 11 million workers they employ, they are basically asking "are you going to bow to us and do our bidding?"

If any candidate doesn't basically reply "Yes we will be as vile as we can to preserve the riches of your most elite" will get publicly trashed. Hell the first question under Innovation isn't even a question, its a fucking directive! If I had to answer it, my reply would be "Is this a question or a command?" It starts off with a statement designed to throw the questionee off balance, then the "question" asked already assumes the questionee agree with them. Hell, it's just like the guilt trip questions my mom would ask right before she tries to hit me up for cash!

I'd say read between the lines but, hell, those questions are so transparently loaded anybody with half a brain could see that. The Copyright Alliance just seems like another special interest lobbying group to me, when I read those question.
 
wow those questions make me want to barf. i wish someone from TPB would run for office ;)
 
How would you protect the incentive to create by committing sufficient resources to support effective civil and criminal enforcement of copyright laws domestically and internationally?

World police much?
 
Wow, pathetic. They are trying to snake their way in any way possible. Still, nobody can stop the pirates.
 
gibber said:
My vote goes to whichever candidate first says "fuck the RIAA":D
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It looks like that counts out all the democrats.. LOL. :p They appointed Jenni Engebretsen (Director of Communications - RIAA) as the DNC Deputy CEO for Public Affairs. :(
 
The only difference between republican and democrat these days is republicans will unapologetically cater to the rich out in the open, democrats wheel and deal on the sly and behind our backs. It's like they don't talk so we don't notice them trying to slam the skeletons trying to get out of the closet back in.
 
We need new laws for lobbyists. And a law to ban corporations from any political involvment.
 
Lethal said:
Their members employ over 11 million workers, many of whom will want to know where the candidates stand on issues that can affect their livelihood.
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Non-Americans' interests should not matter in American elections. 11 million workers??? Yeah, if you count all the outsorced positions and other reasons why people are employed by those firms but not living in or citizens of the US.

If 11 million Americans worked for those companies, that's what, like one in 15-20 of all workers? It would be about one in ten of all professional, full-time workers. That's BS-they are either inflating that number immensely or are using foreign jobs to inflate the numbers and try to influence an election. If all 11 million of those people are so concerned, tell them to vote. But I guess then they're only about a million or less people so they don't sound so intimidating.

It should be enough to the copyright holders that government panders to the wealthy special interest groups instead of the common populous. To overtly seek the good of the few over the good of the many is just offensive.
 
[Colbert]

Nation, make no mistake - DRM is the most important issue of our generation.

[/Colbert]
 
superkdogg said:
Non-Americans' interests should not matter in American elections. 11 million workers??? Yeah, if you count all the outsorced positions and other reasons why people are employed by those firms but not living in or citizens of the US.

If 11 million Americans worked for those companies, that's what, like one in 15-20 of all workers? It would be about one in ten of all professional, full-time workers. That's BS-they are either inflating that number immensely or are using foreign jobs to inflate the numbers and try to influence an election. If all 11 million of those people are so concerned, tell them to vote. But I guess then they're only about a million or less people so they don't sound so intimidating.

It should be enough to the copyright holders that government panders to the wealthy special interest groups instead of the common populous. To overtly seek the good of the few over the good of the many is just offensive.
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Is it a coincidence that that's about the same number of illegal immigrants from Mexico are in the US?!?!

Guys I got it, the RIAA and MPAA hires them all!!!! 2 birds, one stone, kill everybody.
 
Phoenix '97 said:
How would you protect the incentive to create by committing sufficient resources to support effective civil and criminal enforcement of copyright laws domestically and internationally?

World police much?
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Actually, counterfeiting of American (copyrighted) goods is a huge problem internationally. This report is a bit dated but estimates that counterfeiting accounts for approximately 8% of China's gross domestic product and 66% of counterfeit goods seized by US Customs at ports of entry (a tiny fraction of what actually enters the US) and the problem is only growing.

http://www.senate.gov/~govt-aff/_files/042004chow.pdf

superkdogg said:
Non-Americans' interests should not matter in American elections. 11 million workers??? Yeah, if you count all the outsorced positions and other reasons why people are employed by those firms but not living in or citizens of the US.
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I don't think they're including "outsourced" positions. They are talking about those employed by industries affected by copyright issues, which has a broad scope. Did you notice how many sports organizations are members of the Copyright Alliance? Those affected would include everyone from the peanut vendor at the ballpark to the guy in the mailroom at NFL headquarters.
 
MVSdinosaur said:
It seems most Americans feel this way except for our leaders, who seem to feel illegals deserve better rights than US citizens (In-state tuition, etc)
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Quite the contrary, the leaders don't like illegals any more than we (the citizens) do. They only swallow their dislikes and embrace them to gain their votes.

They will accept the RIAA and MPAA as well to gain their political donations.
 
I really hope one of the presidential candidates will go to the RIAA CEO's desk, tell him to bend over and shove this questionaire up his ass and tell him to go to hell. That be the candidate that deserves to win the election. If a the next president is backed by the RIAA, I can only imagine the shit that is going to go down.
 
i would vote for the guy that says i am against the riaa and mpaa and back the people with good morals and values. Too many special interests these days though. Its like you are on one side of the fence against something then that company opens up their wallet and you suddenly change your mind. Corruption practically, special interests should be illegal :)
 
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