Music and film industries lean on tame politicians

"This would include refusing to give such countries loans or making trade embargos against them." so the only thing US are gonna export is redtape, good luck on that.

Yes because it's worth having international tension with Russia and China over a few downloaded songs. If they can't get rid of domestic piracy how are they going to enforce it internationally?

A cold, realistic and to the point observation.
Perhaps follow up on this with names
of the miscreants involved.

"Enforcement of Intellectual Property" ? Why on Earth do they need another law for that ?
Okay, copyright exists since the early 1800's, and now, in 2008, we are supposed to be convinced that we need an "enforcement" law ?

Bollocks !
Send them packing, I say !

They should in fact take it a step forward. anyone caught breaching copyright in the form of downloads should be sued on-sight.

What will this accomplish?

The MAFIAA will learn that 90% of people that pirate games, movies, music etc WILL NOT BUY the products in any case.

Silly people. They are fighting their own customers in a war they cannot win.

Way to go.

If I was being asked to pass bills like this I would tell all the actors/ musicians/ writers/all companies behind it all to do 3 things 
1. reduce prices and stop being so stupidly greedy
2. allow people who own digital media, the freedom to move, copy, watch on as many diff machines in their home/ work/ office providing the pc is in the users name, movie purchasers, should get more the 7 days they bought it and should be able to own it for life.
3. give users of digital music incentives to use digital media by doing the above stuff, this reduces environmental impact, and keeps houses clean.

even if they just did no1 and 2. alot more people would support it, and being so much cheaper there would be less pirating. 

of course piracy will always exist. 

but let me tell you why I have d/l music or a movie previously in another life ( i dont do it anymore) 
1. Price, its over priced if price would be reduced I would of bought it from a store, and paid for it.

2.availability. I am a avid Best motoring Fan, this is a video magazine of the Japanese car market, they test cars, have races, and interviews from the manufacturers and also information on new models etc. they also do another version called Hot Version. this is still a video magazine about cars, but this one covers high performance, and tuned cars .they have racing, they test the cars, they have interviews etc. both are fantastic, both are very entertaining, and very educational. there is one problem , I CANT BUY THEM ANYWHERE!!! 
except in japan and they wont ship to me here.
they also don't provide subtitles and translation of them. (they used to but stopped) 

so I am forced to d/l them as I cannot purchase them at all. I have emailed the company to sell me a subscription of both series, so they know im not a time waster, I told them to their faces (in email) that I am forced to download them, and that I would rather pay them for it, because they are truly worth the money, yet they email me back, and tell me sorry they arnt available outside of japan. I even asked for a paypal account so I could put some money in there to cover the cost, as I felt bad that I should give something. but say no thanks we dont want your dirty westerner money lol.

Although this seems like I rambled on, but there is a big big big point to make. and that is there are decent peolpe out there that want to take advantage of digital content, but there is just stupid buarocrats in the way of users, and creators making a good deal. I mean if someone from sony music for instance sat down with a few people and said ok, what do you want, we would say, if we buy a song, a file whatever we want to be able to play it on any machine that is owned by me, as many times, unrestircted, for a decent price. 
same goes with movie companies. you dont use dvd's less workers need to be paid, costs are cut by almost 70% yet you wont pass that saving on to us, nor will you make it so that we can play on any machine in our name, os why should we buy ur overpriced files? thats why there is piracy, because we feel that its not worth it, which is why we seek other ways to get it. 

you should even try setting up a honesty paypal account for the studios. I know if I downloaded say street kings a 1.3gb divx file, I would say ok, I think $6 US is a fair price. I would go to paypal, find 20thcenturyfox in paypal listings, and deposit that money. 
and I would be very happy doing that. also people d/l pirate copies because they also cant afford it. so whynot make a deal with this type of person. again paypal, say I wanted street kings and I didnt have 50 buks for the blueray so I thought hmm ill download it for free. ohh hang on 20th century have that honesty box, so ok ill download a copy from te net, and ill pay them a few dollars this week, say $5 US and next week maybe a few more dollars. 

the companies need to do this for a few reasons, they need to accept piracy exists, they need to accept that they are to greedy, and someone making 40 millino dollars on a movie is a little too much. 
and by doing a similar thing to this honesty box, may not get maximum profits, but it will consolodate them, and get some money for a product that if they dont implement this they would get ZERO, ZILTCH , NUDDA. so they need to look on the bright side a little more. 

sorry for the long post, but I feel this has toget out into the air, and circulate hopefully a executive reads it and gives me a job, warez Liasion, I would strike a deal with the scene that would be benificial for all parties. :P 


They may try to tax birds and insects for tunes’ infringing stolen from musicians songs too!

Given the rapidly declining influence of the US in foreign affairs I think this is probably a bad idea. The worse the US copyright and patent systems get the more likely there is to be open rebellion. Someone could just decide they're sick of being bullied and stop enforcing US IP. Not that there would really be any change, it just might make things official.

Paypal Stewart? Do people continue to use that after so many horror stories about their behaviour? I'm pretty sure that if you tried to pay for something like you describe paypal would immediately freeze your account and you'd never see your money again.

Let's all agree on a day and not listen, watch or buy music or movies.
Or we can pick a day and download the hell out of everything we can find.

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