I need to get this out to as wide an audience as I can:
Stop buying music and movies until the movie and music studios stop suing innocent people and stop suing to stop innovation.
Recently, the MPAA has sued to stop the RealDVD program from being sold, claiming it can be used to pirate movies. This is simply not true. It leaves the DVD encryption in place and actually increases security of the movie copied locally by putting all of them into a monolithic library file that is also encrypted. The real motivation of the movie studios is to continue to restrict how you can watch your movies.
They have continually sued people to eliminate the ability to save movies locally so that law abiding people can't just have a library of movies they have paid for on their computers so that they don't have to endanger their DVD's. This forces overuse of the DVD's people buy, causing them to become damaged over time, and forcing people to have to buy them over and over again. This is money the movie studios don't even come close to deserving.
When DVD's were first under development, they had a caddy around them to protect it from damage, but the movie studios pushed to have that removed, making the disks vulnerable to being damaged when taken out of the package.
In the new HD formats, they fought to have restricted viewing on the disks, so that once purchased, they could only be viewed a certain number of times before they become useless. People pushed back, and the studios relented, but they haven't given up on this. are still fighting to restrict our rights on how many times we can play back movies, and the music industry is following suit.
They have also been inflating their numbers on how much piracy is affecting them. They know that most people who are pirating their music and movies wouldn't buy them anyway, but they still claim the lost sales, even though they aren't lost at all. They still claim huge numbers on who is pirating, even though they know the real numbers are maybe 1/10 they claim. They also claim their lack of growth of sales is due to piracy, even though they know full well that the lost sales is due to the lack of quality of their recently released music and movies. They know they make crap, but they want more excuses, more justification, to sue people and stifle innovation.
I say stop buying movies and music so that they might begin to understand that it is the consumer that has the power here. Show them that they can't continue to rob us. Show them that they stay in business on our permission, not the other way around.
Don't buy The Dark Knight when it comes out. Show them just how much we can affect their sales! We can get them under rein. We can keep our rights to watch movies and listen to music how WE want to, not how they give us permission to.
Tell them to stop suing and robbing their customers by not buying their products until they stop this garbage.
Stop buying music and movies until the movie and music studios stop suing innocent people and stop suing to stop innovation.
Recently, the MPAA has sued to stop the RealDVD program from being sold, claiming it can be used to pirate movies. This is simply not true. It leaves the DVD encryption in place and actually increases security of the movie copied locally by putting all of them into a monolithic library file that is also encrypted. The real motivation of the movie studios is to continue to restrict how you can watch your movies.
They have continually sued people to eliminate the ability to save movies locally so that law abiding people can't just have a library of movies they have paid for on their computers so that they don't have to endanger their DVD's. This forces overuse of the DVD's people buy, causing them to become damaged over time, and forcing people to have to buy them over and over again. This is money the movie studios don't even come close to deserving.
When DVD's were first under development, they had a caddy around them to protect it from damage, but the movie studios pushed to have that removed, making the disks vulnerable to being damaged when taken out of the package.
In the new HD formats, they fought to have restricted viewing on the disks, so that once purchased, they could only be viewed a certain number of times before they become useless. People pushed back, and the studios relented, but they haven't given up on this. are still fighting to restrict our rights on how many times we can play back movies, and the music industry is following suit.
They have also been inflating their numbers on how much piracy is affecting them. They know that most people who are pirating their music and movies wouldn't buy them anyway, but they still claim the lost sales, even though they aren't lost at all. They still claim huge numbers on who is pirating, even though they know the real numbers are maybe 1/10 they claim. They also claim their lack of growth of sales is due to piracy, even though they know full well that the lost sales is due to the lack of quality of their recently released music and movies. They know they make crap, but they want more excuses, more justification, to sue people and stifle innovation.
I say stop buying movies and music so that they might begin to understand that it is the consumer that has the power here. Show them that they can't continue to rob us. Show them that they stay in business on our permission, not the other way around.
Don't buy The Dark Knight when it comes out. Show them just how much we can affect their sales! We can get them under rein. We can keep our rights to watch movies and listen to music how WE want to, not how they give us permission to.
Tell them to stop suing and robbing their customers by not buying their products until they stop this garbage.