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Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
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Mister Shifter
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Posted 4 months ago # -
JonMyers
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cheap said:
i can't either.Sherrod Brown has done the classic fuck up involving himself in this mess.
Yeah, he's clueless and lacks an innovation oriented mindset like most politicians.
Another report of wackamole since SOPA hasn't passed....
German national Kim Dotcom, also known as Kim Schmitz, was one of four men arrested on Friday, a day before his 38th birthday, in an investigation of the Megaupload.com website led by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
High-octane arrest in Megaupload fraud
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Lastly, just spotted this and love it.
Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood
Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is not an ordinary industry. The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they could do a lot of damage to civil liberties and the world economy on the way down. It would therefore be a good thing if competitors hastened their demise.
That's one reason we want to fund startups that will compete with movies and TV, but not the main reason. The main reason we want to fund such startups is not to protect the world from more SOPAs, but because SOPA brought it to our attention that Hollywood is dying. They must be dying if they're resorting to such tactics. If movies and TV were growing rapidly, that growth would take up all their attention. When a striker is fouled in the penalty area, he doesn't stop as long as he still has control of the ball; it's only when he's beaten that he turns to appeal to the ref. SOPA shows Hollywood is beaten. And yet the audiences to be captured from movies and TV are still huge. There is a lot of potential energy to be liberated there.
How do you kill the movie and TV industries? Or more precisely (since at this level, technological progress is probably predetermined) what is going to kill them? Mostly not what they like to believe is killing them, filesharing. What's going to kill movies and TV is what's already killing them: better ways to entertain people. So the best way to approach this problem is to ask yourself: what are people going to do for fun in 20 years instead of what they do now?
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I do think a lot of SOPA is a wild grasp to protect Hollywood (TV/ Film Industry) from their failure to innovate and innovate fast enough.
The thing is - someone, somewhere will.
Posted 4 months ago # -
Mister Shifter
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Hollywood is going down the tank, fast.
Higher and higher ticket prices, declining amount of quality films, compounded with the fact that home TV's are getting better, bigger & cheaper, and network television is getting better than what's being offered in the cinema (Mad Men, Breaking Bad, LOST, American Horror Story, etc etc etc). I used to go to the movies all the time. Now I go less than five times a year.
Not to mention movie studios continue to not get it and charge close to $30 for blu-ray movies, and wonder why people turn to bit torrent, or just not buy physical media anymore.
Sorry if some of this has already been said, I didn't take the time to read the previous few pages.
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