On 01/18/2012 07:31 AM, richardatrwilliamsdotus wrote: > >>> Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision >>> to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 >>> hours, worldwide... >>> > Bhairitu: >> Google will also be joining the protest tomorrow... >> > So you two Barry's support the Hollywood billionaires > AND the Silicon Valley billionaires? Go figure.
You sure don't read much of what I post. I've been very critical of Hollywood which is a shadow of what it used to be. The original studio moguls were inventors and innovators. If they would around today they probably would have looked at the Internet back in the 1990s as "a new means of distribution." And Google and other tech companies don't want to be saddled with the job of sorting out which site has legitimate content and which ones don't. Leave that to the content providers as it is now. Take down the wrong site with legitimate content and deep pocket companies could be targeted with big lawsuits. > Apparently the primary targets are sites overseas - sites > that sell counterfeit movies and music and let pirates > download and stream at no charge. And how do the studios and record companies figure how much they are losing? They're guessing! They may only be losing about 2% of profit and that is pretty much what ANY business figures in as spoilage. Most people wouldn't download movies illegally if they were readily available. Why bother when you can watch a movie via Netflix or LoveFilm (in Europe). But the big studios are big dinosaurs move slowly to innovate. They're losing because they are behind the times. I look at some studios like Sony Pictures and your Texas buddy Mark Cuban's "Magnolia Films" making their content readily available online while companies Warner Brothers are slow to allow any of their movies online. > "Protecting foreign criminals from liability rather than > protecting American copyright holders and intellectual > property developers is irresponsible, will cost American > jobs, and is just wrong," - Senator Patrick J. Leahy So you are a Democrat now? Willy the chameleon. Go figure. Sorry but Senator Leahy is obsolete and needs to be deprecated. Sometimes conservatives are worth something and some Republicans have spoken up and oppose SOPA and PIPA because they are more big government intrusion. I'll support them on that issue.
