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Congress licks RIAA's ass even deeper

Eggs Mayonnaise

All In With The Nuts
Anti-piracy efforts among education act

WASHINGTON -- Legislation renewing the nation's higher-education programs includes language sought by the studios that pushes the nation's colleges to toughen campus anti-piracy measures.

Deep in the Higher Education Act introduced Friday by House Education and Labor Committee chairman Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., are provisions that direct colleges and universities to step up anti-piracy efforts; instruct the schools to develop alternatives to illegal downloading, including technology that blocks illegal downloads; and give the education secretary authority to fund prevention, education and blocking solutions to reduce and eliminate the illegal downloading and distribution of intellectual property.

College students often are the most egregious illegal downloads, and they often get access to the peer-to-peer networks where much online piracy occurs through the high-speed connections that institutions of higher learning usually allow their students to use for free.

"Intellectual property theft is a worldwide problem that hurts our economy and costs more than 140,000 American jobs every year," MPAA chairman and CEO Dan Glickman said. "We are pleased to see that Congress is taking this step to help keep our economy strong by protecting copyrighted material on college campuses."

The MPAA's most recent data shows that the U.S. motion picture industry lost $6.1 billion to piracy in 2005. About 44% of the industry's domestic losses -- more than $500 million annually -- are attributed to college students illegally sharing files over P2P networks.

"We have been working closely with the higher-education community and value that partnership because we are all in this together," Glickman said. "Illegal downloading doesn't just hurt the motion picture and music industries, but it can also be harmful to universities as it puts their systems at risk for security purposes, takes up bandwidth and slows systems that are designed for research and other educational purposes."
Now not only will your kids be expelled from college for downloading...the college can be shut down too! WHEEEEEE!

And Planet Bizarro spins a little faster...
 
I'm curious to know how they calculate the $6.1 billion loss to piracy. However, I don't think it is bizarre to wish to protect one's interests in their work product. Funding prevention methods to stop theft of intellectual property is not the same as shutting down college/university campuses. What I find bizarre is that college/university students have to be taught not to steal. Shouldn't they have learned that already?
 
RIAA has nothing to do with anyone's interest but their own. The artists don't get a fucking penny of that "6.2" billion lost to theft (they must be mantraing the Holocaust to get their point across), and it's already been established that the RIAA is only concerned about it's own profits.
 
They pretty much pulled that $6.1 billion number straight out of their collective asses. In fact, there have been more than a few studies lately that show that file sharing has actually helped sales, not hurt them, at least the sales of anything that might be considered good and not just the usual shit they shovel out.

They should really take a cue from the dinosaurs and buggy-whip manufacturers, who went extinct rather quietly in comparison.
 
Hey, make it out to Westfield and they'll still tell you about how they used to be the premier buggy whip manufacturing city in the country.
 
Well, in 100 years you'll probably be able to go to the RIAA headquarters (I don't know where it is, exactly, but I figure it's a Darth Vader helmet that rises out of a swamp and is staffed by Lex Luthor, Brainiac, and a variety of underlings) and there'll be a plaque that states they were once the premier purveyor of musical crap in the nation or the world!
 
I liked it better when it was just ASCAP and BMI hassling restaurants about paying for playing the radio in the shop.
 
every film I have downloaded and liked I have bought on DVD when it came out.

I think a lot of people do the same, try before they buy.

If sales are down, maybe its because not that many films are actually worth buying, especially at full price.

I dont mind waiting a few months or even a year if I can pick up spiderman 3 for around a fiver.

Plus a lot of stuff out there on the web isnt even available to buy, like 40 year old marvel comics and such.
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
Now not only will your kids be expelled from college for downloading...the college can be shut down too! WHEEEEEE!

And Planet Bizarro spins a little faster...


College students often are the most egregious illegal downloads, and they often get access to the peer-to-peer networks where much online piracy occurs through the high-speed connections that institutions of higher learning usually allow their students to use for free.

*ROTFLMAO* Seems like this was written by the same people who think Canada's universal healthcare system is 'free'. The morons are too stupid to realise it is the students who pay for those high-speed connections through their tuition. Fucking morons. Surely this is the same RIAA we Canadians ran back across the border, and told them to fuck off yes?
 
The RIAA always gets a job. Whatever safety we had in our bill of rights about "cruel and unusual fines and punishment" no longer exists to us. While people's lives are being thrown into chaos these asshats are profiting off of us. And where is the government I ask you? Kissing the RIAA's ass because that's what It knows how to do best.

Seriously, the only thing we can do is hope we get a president that illegally downloads music so we can finally be rid of this menace.
 
LOL YEAH THE RIAA IS A BAD ORGANIZATION BECAUSE THEY ARE MAKING YOU PAY FOR A PRODUCT THAT COST THEM A FUCK LOAD OF MONEY TO MAKE

You're all irrational retards.

QQ moar faggots.
 
Almighty_Hen said:
LOL YEAH THE RIAA IS A BAD ORGANIZATION BECAUSE THEY ARE MAKING YOU PAY FOR A PRODUCT THAT COST THEM A FUCK LOAD OF MONEY TO MAKE

You're all irrational retards.

QQ moar faggots.
Because one song costs 725 dollars to make am I right?
Please, my good sir, stop banging your head against bricks, its making it hard for you to think logcially.

For those who don't know where I recieved that number from. Its from the case with the women charged with 24 counts.
 
The songs cost more than that to make.

They have to pay for the self absorbed "artist's" limos, their food, the production of the CDs/the bandwidth on their servers, the album art artists, the copy right fees and a whole shit load more.
 
Almighty_Hen said:
The songs cost more than that to make.

They have to pay for the self absorbed "artist's" limos, their food, the production of the CDs/the bandwidth on their servers, the album art artists, the copy right fees and a whole shit load more.
And yet the make a fortune on concerts. Why?
 
Almighty_Hen said:
The stadiums and the artists get to keep that money, not the company that gives them money to play their shitty music.
Because the RIAA is completely dirt poor am I right? Seeing as their targeting individuals instead of the people who supply the songs I'm so sure they actually want it all to stop.
 
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