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MPAA is the big bad wolf

So much hot air. They are trying to increase their already obscene profits on DVD sales by scaring users into believing that if they dub a copy of one of their own or one of their rented DVDs for personal, in-home use, that they can face those outrageous penalties of $500,000 and 20 years in prison. That's pure bull. Even the blatant pirate gangs who sell pirated DVDs on the streets of NYC rarely face anything more severe than small penalties and never get any prison time. They are back on the street next day doing their thing again. The fact is the Hollywood ****** whose accounting practices can show a loss on a billion-dollar grossing feature like Titanic may claim that they are losing money to DVD dubbing but the truth is they really are not because just like the college student who dupes a copy of Photoshop and would otherwise never be able to afford it at retail, the kids who dupe a dozen movies for viewing in their dorms would not be able to afford the $300 plus in DVD costs in the first place, so that doesn't really amount to lost sales, it actually adds up to free publicity for the movie. Like most of the rest of American culture, the Hollywood bores are obsessed with the almight dollar and like the fabled little dog with a big juicy bone already in mouth, they lust after the extra bone they see in their reflection, and dream of owning an even larger and more obscene pile of wealth which they could never ever spend in 10 lifetimes. Screw 'em. Let them get a search warrant and invade my personal domicile looking for "illegal contraband" - my old VHS Macrovision protected taples which I've archived to DVD for safekeeping. I bought the tapes, I archived the tapes, and if they don't like it, they should sit back in their leather chairs in their million-dollar appointed offices and lay out another line of cocaine on their mahogony desks and snort their blues away while they are waiting for their Heidi Fleiss ****** to arrive. I won't be losing any sleep worrying that I might find myself in prison with the rapists, murders, drug dealers, and armed robbers just because I copies my Star Trek Animated Adventure videotapes onto a bunch of DVD+R blanks. Hey, Valenti, kiss my behind, will you?

Posted by: r7di697   Posted on: 03/28/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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