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Originally Posted by Aussie Rebel
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This new law is a fucking disaster.
The part of the bill that was ommitted was the Department of Justice Civil Enforcement. It would give the DOJ the authority to sue people who infringe on copyrights on behalf of the copyright owner.
In the case of the MPAA/RIAA judicial abuse, it will let the DOJ do their dirty work, using YOUR TAX DOLLARS.
And this takes out the most important part of copyright. Most cases are motivated by the laws of economics. You don't usually sue someone unless they are causing you damages; it usually doesn't make sense to sue somebody who made a photocopy of your book, but it makes sense to sue somebody selling counterfeit DVDs on eBay. It costs money to file a lawsuit and pay lawyers.
Now the government can sue anybody they want, and they could care less about how much it costs. The copyright holders don't pay a penny. It all comes out of YOUR TAX DOLLARS.
Do you really think that the government gives a shit about pirated porn? Do you? The DOJ gets to decide who it wants to go after. I guaran-damn-tee you they won't be going after pornbb.org or any of the tube sites or average people downloading torrents with rips of your entire sites.
Every week, the MPAA comes out with a new statistic about how much money they're losing. Currently, movie piracy costs the economy $900 billion per year. 90% is the result of file sharing. And 92% is the result of counterfeit DVDs in China. And for every DVDRip that you download, you will cause 200,000 people to lose their jobs. And anybody who buys a counterfeit DVD on the street is clearly a terrorist and a drug dealer.
And whatever happens, Dan Glickman will blame it on piracy:
9/11 - Terrorists watched pirated DVDs and were upset with American filth
Illegal Immigration - Mexicans coming across the border to buy pirated DVDs
Economic Meltdown - Piracy cost jobs
War on Drugs - Piracy funds drug lords
Teenage Pregnancy - Too many pirated copies of Juno
Why doesn't he just shut the fuck up already? MPAA sales were up this summer over the summer of 2007, in the middle of a credit crunch.
There is one press release on the MPAA site that says 60% of movies don't even make a profit. It's tough for the movie industry to operate. And then the second press release comes out a week later and talks about how the MPAA members produced record profits this year.
With movies/music, most of the people who are pirating stuff were never going to buy the content in the first place, either because they are cheap, or because the movies suck. Movie studios are run fat angry by idiots. Even a monkey can predict which movies are going to make a profit and which ones are going to fail.
With porn, more people would be buying it if it weren't so freely available, because there is no substitute to porn.