Hollywood's copyright enforcer

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Hollywood's priest of the spectacle: Here's my humble assessment of Dean Garfield and the entertainment cartel he represents.

"They ["the people"] aren't able to see the value and hard work that goes into making a movie. It's a real investment. It requires not only vision and great storytelling, but real capital investment. It costs a little over $100 million to make and market a movie."

so he's saying that "the people" aren't able to see something that is in fact quite well known. what's really going on here is that people are no longer worshiping commodities and images as sacred, and that's bad news for any cartel that depends on the image.

"I'm also not of the view that we have a monopoly on perfection."

freudian slip? although they're more of an oligopoly than a monopoly, but why split hairs?

he goes on specifically to say that the MPAA's major strategy has been "education and deterrents" and to "change behavior"

i.e., re-educate us on the sacredness of the image

"We're in the truly nascent stages of the Internet as a multimedia delivery mechanism."

it's not a communication network, it's a content delivery mechanism. this is truly outrageous, that people see the Internet in this way.

"For us, BitTorrent holds real promise because our stuff is really large."

in other words, "we'd love to charge you for our content delivery, while you use your bandwidth to do it for us."

"There's nothing philosophically principled about it. They [The Pirate Bay] steal copyright content and accept advertising dollars based on taking other people's work. There's nothing noble about it."

actually, our swedish comrades are quite engaged with philosophical theory. i just wish they'd do more work in english so the international community could engage them in a conversation.; Posted by: mediaoffender Posted on: 09/17/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use