MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
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MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
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Re: MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
#2I very, very seriously doubt the film 16-Love was robbed of
"hundreds of thousands" of viewers through piracy.
You can't complain about misinformation on the other side and then trot out something like that.
Re: MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
#3I hate when they just pull these numbers out of their ass. I can agree that they lose money (even though I feel it is necessary to force them to innovate), but they are just creating random figures of things that would have never happened. It would be like Michael Bay coming out claiming Transformers lost 250 million dollars because of piracy.
Re: MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
#4Their interest is not 'having a conversation'. They have degenerated into monopolists. Let us clarify the game they play:
One year they lobby government to strengthen enforcement. They say: piracy means they are not getting what the law says is their due. (it sounds almost reasonable!)
The next year they lobby government to expand copyright. That is: they are deciding for themselves what is their due.
Far from the general public interest, and, indeed, plainly very far from the free market.
Re: MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
#5"There was some back and forth about how best to combat piracy, with some in the audience advocating a strategy that supplies more content in new, affordable avenues to undercut the temptation to steal, and Fithian arguing that cheap-prices-up-front approaches such as Netflix streaming and $1 Redbox kiosks are "bad business models.""
Clueless
Re: MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
#6http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Dodd
In office for 36 years, the first thing he does when he goes private is to lobby for a law nobody wants on behalf of his new employer. What happened to Obama's promise to stop this?
Re: MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
#7There is no conversation to be had. They're just gonna keep pulling this shit until they pass what they want to pass.
Re: MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
#8Has it actually been defeated though? I'm not that well versed in what's been going on, but the last time I read about it they just said the bill had been shelved after public outcry
Shelved surely means they'll pick it up later and push it through discreetly?
Re: MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
#9Classic Chris Dodd. Obvious outcomes -- like the 2008 financial crisis, which occurred on his watch as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee-- are "watershed" and heretofore "never seen before." This way, he can escape responsibility for the role his own actions played in creating the mess.
Re: MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
#10"There was some back and forth about how best to combat piracy, with some in the audience advocating a strategy that supplies more content in new, affordable avenues to undercut the temptation to steal, and Fithian arguing that cheap-prices-up-front approaches such as Netflix streaming and $1 Redbox kiosks are "bad business models."" Clueless
Care to elaborate?