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RE: Verizon to test sending RIAA copyright warnings

Socratesfoot 13th Nov 2009

Let?s face the reality that the entertainment industry is at least in part looking for someone to blame for falling revenue that is probably more due to the lack of quality in so many movies and music today and less to piracy. Nobody made them add leg humping RC cars or blond sex-formers to Transformers 2, we couldn?t? make them stop after the first Saw movie, or ask every entertainer in California to auto-tune themselves into obscurity. Taste is subjective, but there is stuff I hear on the radio that I think Britney Spears should pay me to listen to.

It is not even that I am not unsympathetic to the RIAA, or their plight, especially with new releases. But if the movie is really good would anyone be satisfied as a customer with a camcorder copy filmed from an old bowling bag that had any intention of paying for the movie otherwise. Would the people downloading movies or music that can be obtained for free in any public library really buy the movie if they couldn?t download it, unless they planned to buy it? While piracy is obviously wrong, the entertainment industry has just gone over the edge with invading people?s privacy and there has to be some limit to how deep these people can probe into the lives of private citizens to protect their intellectual property.