In case you didn't already know, your property rights just got prison shower raped again, this time to benefit large copyright holders (the drug warriors are taking a holiday). Feel free to send your indignation to the office of the Honorable Mickey Mouse, Senator from Disney.
Perhaps if an actor didn't earn an ridiculous sum of money (millions) for a part, no one would be as concerned with this whole downloading thing :)
Movies gross MILLIONS and cost MILLIONS to make and produce.. wtheck???
Make movies a form of entertainment again.
For us (2 parental type figures, 3 adult children and 1 youth) it costs us approx. $50 to step into the magic forest of movie kingdom and then there are the treats...
Our little two and a half hour evening out costs us no less than $120 a pop.
Hmmm, someone's making the bucks ;-)
Ironically, it's not even the theater that's making it. They get badly, badly abused by the studios on ticket sales. One of my exs worked for a theater and she was told by her manager that on a really, really good night, they might be able to keep an average of $0.02/ticket sold. Everything else that the theater survives on comes from selling food!
$50 for tickets? Screw that! You might as well buy yourself a Blu-Ray player and pay full price for Blu-Ray disks, since they're "only" half that price, and are not that far off on resolution.
More government expansion from Dubya. Colour me unsurprised.
I blame this one mostly on Congress, not on 43. Yes he signed it, but they sent him a bill that contained the provisions that the White House originally lobbied against.
Ayn Rand is proving more and more prescient each day. When one doesn't have enough criminals to punish, one makes them. With intellectual-protectionist laws such as these that advance the interests of mercantilists at the expense of the people, there were a shedload of criminals made today.
Adam Smith must be doing about 6,000 rpm in his grave right now.
Someday I see that copyright infringement will be like speeding...almost your civic duty to do so in protest of stupid and unjust laws.