[Discuss] Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers (Vancouver Sun)

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2008-05-29 10:52-0700 David Bronaugh wrote:

> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> [...]See
>> http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=ae997868-220b-4dae-bf4f-47f6fc96ce5e 
>> for the ugly details.
> Yeah, I've read about this. It -is- pretty ugly.

I believe such efforts are largely driven by Hollywood because of their
paranoia about illegal copying of their movies, and they don't give a damn
about any bad consequences for the IT industry.  If you think about that it
is really strange that Hollywood has so much power compared to the IT
industry.  I have forgotten even the rough numbers, but I believe the IT
industry is something like 10 times the size of the Hollywood industry, but
the IT industry wields much less power than Hollywood in Washington (and
therefore the world) so nonsense like this trade pact is given serious
consideration when it should just be laughed off.

Year's ago when some Hollywood executive blurted out in an interview that
the movie industry's goal was to get rid of the internet because of copying
concerns, Barbara and I realized they were the fundamental enemy of all
computer users.  We haven't been to a movie theatre since.  We do watch DVD
movies from the library (they have a huge collection).  Classical Hollywood
movies are pretty entertaining, but for modern movies we find the quality of
the movie tends to anti-correlate with how much influence Hollywood has had
on it.

Alan
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