MPAA trying to shutdown the home theatre

[bouche]

This is just too much.

"Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That's a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends," said Glickman.

[dimafleck: the living legend.]

HA.

[bouche]

can you imagine? I can honestly see them thinking like that. Satire or not, that is the mentality of the MPAA.

[dimafleck: the living legend.]

how would that ever be controlled...

i mean, you can walk into a store and buy bootleg dvds....they can barely even control that whole market.

[Jaimoe]

Well, class rooms were basically shut-down from showing films many years ago. However, schools are a lot easier to regulate.

Isn't trying to shut-down home theatre movie nights similar to trying to stop people from having parties with your favourite CD's blaring in the background though your stereo.

[Esau.]

meh - C+ effort for humor. A bit of stretch for anyone to really believe this right?

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Just be glad, we don't have to personally pay licensing for TV, like in the UK.

[Blane]

in Switzerland you have to pay for radio. They literally have "radio police" that come around to check and see if you have radios in your house. We got busted there and ended up paying 35 bucks every 2 months or some bullshit.

[SaggyBalls]

I think licensing television and radio would be a great way for media to have avoided the capitalization it underwent years ago.

If there were an extra stream of revenue then radio and television stations wouldn't have to go to the lengths they have to ensure their advertising was so effective...or at least tries to be.

We'd possibly have far more challenging content.

Not that british pop is any less tawdry and useless as the rest of the pop world, but it's at least more interesting than much of what we hear.

public channels would be free.

You'd have to pay for what's popular.

I think far more people would be listening to CBC if we'd have adopted that ethos years ago.

Same line of thinking as SOCAN fees in bars. The fees would be able to offset artists' poverty. As much as there's a lot of money floating around in film and tv land, there are a lot of productions that have made no money which has driven their creative elements to get regular joe jobs.

Sorry, no explicit examples...all officially here say as usual...

Too bad it would mean we'd have to pay more money.

If this licensing fee would not be end-user based it would work better. If there was a creative/artist tax on every piece of electronic equipment that went to one central fund for independant creative arts in Canada it would likely be able to work.

So for a ten thousand dollar television, what's another few hundred bucks?

on a $50 radio what's a twoonie?

money manufacturers would scrutinize over. Big business would have to answer to the little guy.

[phishtaper]

"Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too."

Damn, we just wasted a lot of money on some new surround speakers then. Um, can they watch from outside? Technically, we wouldnt have invited them over. This is hilarious.