> having any control over what they see/hear. This hatred is one of
> their primary motivations, second only to their greed. These two
> motivations explain their willingness to subvert our legal process in
> order to secure a stranglehold on the creation and distribution of
> content.
>
> If you have a Chevrolet, no one thinks twice if you spend the
> afternoon taking apart the engine to drop in a more powerful
> alternator. If you have a green couch, no one bats an eyelash if you
> recover it with blue velvet. But the media robber barons (MPAA, RIAA,
> and their ilk are the REAL pirates) have managed to push through laws
> making it a crime to do these perfectly ordinary actions with digital
> media that we have *paid* for. Subverting the law to circumvent the
> free market and erode individual rights is *not* capitalism, nor is
> this about "piracy" -- a personal copy of a CD you've already
> purchased, for playing on a computer or in your car, is not piracy no
> matter what the record companies want. This is about control.
>
> "Absolute control means demolishing the rights we users of copyrighted
> material have enjoyed for centuries, such as the fair-use right to
> make personal copies or quote from copyrighted works. It means carving
> away what's left of the public domain, shrinking the public commons
> from which so many creative works have emerged in the past.
>
***> The entertainment companies don't fear the end of creativity. They
***> fear the end of the business model that has centralized control
over
***> much of our culture, a system that has produced extortionate
profits
***> for companies that have a remarkable tendency to cheat the artists
in
***> the process.
>
> The industry has made it abundantly clear that it isn't interested in
> a compromise that preserves traditional rights. By using scare tactics
> -- the threat of anarchy and loss of creativity -- the entertainment
> companies poison the well and prevent even the possibility of a
> compromise." -
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/38472
97.htm
-Gel
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