DMCA, RIAA, MPAA, and US

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- Note: I changed the name of this particular thread posting because it 
only deals with a specific copyright issue. - Dan

What I find amazing is that when RIAA was complaining that their sales 
had dropped by, what, 7%? - most retail outlets were down 20 to 30% in 
the same time frame.  Why?  The year they were using "just happened" to 
coincide with the beginning of both of our 21st Century wars.  NOBODY 
had any extra money, but apparently they WERE spending it on 
entertainment, unlike other goods for sale.  They used that period as a 
political excuse to blame the P2P people, who do affect their income 
(mostly OUTSIDE the US), but not by the margins they're claiming.

I don't begrudge the artists getting a royalty.  I do begrudge 
(supposedly) not-for-profit monopolies suing for infringement, then 
(according to several artists and other BLOGs I've read) not sharing the 
extra money with the artists.  Because of this, I re-coined the DMCA 
meaning:  "Desperate Monopolies Corruption Act."  It wasn't written for 
small business content providers (you try getting patent licenses for 
CD-Audio, MP3s, DVDs, Dolby Surround, etc. without going bankrupt!)  It 
was written for RIAA and the MPAA.  In fact, they're the only ones 
permitted to use the FBI "Anti-Piracy" logo on DVDs and CDs.  (You can 
still use the text legally, but you have to go through a lot of red tape 
to get the FBI logo.)

That's another reason I started my movie.  It's time the owners (and the 
entertainment industry's customers) of These United States reminded 
Congress who they actually work for.

Danny Stone
Publisher/Producer
Wallstone Entertainment


Mary E Tyler wrote:
>
> I've long fought the perm "piracy" and long disagreed with the RIAA's
> tactics and their assertions that if they stopped ALL casual
> infringement that they would make that much more dough. They wouldn't.
> Most people, I think are like me. They don't buy because they don't
> have the money to buy.
>
> **shrug**
>
> YMMV.
>
> dej
>


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