SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, CISPA, the freedom of the Internet is under assault from crony industry and governments. It’s about control. It is about the reining in of information. It is about restricting innovators and protecting dinosaur business models.
Tag Archives: MPAA
Kim Dotcom of Megaupload launches attack on a White House captured by Hollywood.
Former Senator Chris Dodd (Joe Biden’s best friend) is now head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Dotcom (that is his last name) thinks that the White House and Hollywood are colluding to take down Megaupload and in the process seeking to deal a blow to the encryption community worldwide. Both Hollywood and the White House don’t want you to have any anonymity on the Internet. Governments and legacy media both fear encryption. For the average person encryption is freedom.
State Subsidies To Hollywood: Almost Every Program Has Been A Dismal Failure, Costing Taxpayers
Hollywood crony deals seem to fail like Madonna movies.
Copyright is a government sanctioned monopoly, not a natural right.
There are very good arguments, both for and against copyright. Our founders thought that such rights were vital to encourage innovation and creative exploration.
Fix Copyright in the USA. It Was Never Meant to be a Way to Entrench the Already Powerful.
Copyright laws in this country are absurd and amount to little more than givaways to the entertainment industry.
Hollywood Kills a Congressional Policy Paper on Copyright Reform, “Went Ballistic.”
The Motion Picture Association of America led by chief lobbyist, former Senator Chris Dodd, killed (it is denied officialy) a paper presented by the Republican Study Committee last Friday, which challenged long held views on copyright.
In 1982 the MPAA (The Guys behind SOPA and now CISPA) Sought to Outlaw the VCR
Disruptive technologies are just that – disruptive. Cars killed the buggy whip companies. But some of those companies probably started making auto accessories. I’ll bet even a few of them thrived. Change happens.
The point is disruption is a natural thing and one of the most important parts of a market economy. New technologies rise, and with them new leaders and new wealth, only to be replaced by newer technologies and newer leaders after that. The firms that can negotiate the transitions become legends. Those which do not become footnotes, for the most part.
American history is full of efforts by industry to protect itself from change, but dynamism in the economy need not be feared. With dynamism comes opportunity. The Motion Picture Association of America should remember this. The industry may have to change, sorry about that.
I wonder what the vaudeville lobby thought of movies back in the day? George Burns made it in both media. The geniuses in Hollywood should have no problem.
