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Originally Posted by gideongallery
you really believe that the fabricated claims of loss that the MPAA studies claim are happening are going to survive discussion periods for the law
especially when their own studies " determined that some of those lost sales would have required a person to jump on a plane and fly half way around the world to buy the product."
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the fair use economy that is threatened with such a change in the law is currently 10-15 times as big as the fabricated economic loss.
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I believe that big, powerful companies don't like to lose. When they play by the existing rules and lose they often then set out to change those rules. Viacom played by the rules and lost (some of it due to their own mistakes). I would not be shocked to hear they that and other media companies are pressing lawmakers to modify the rules.
We saw Biden and his press conference a few days ago declaring war on piracy. When the well connected, well paid lobbyist for Viacom sit down with various senators and members of congress they can make a very good argument why the law needs to be changed. I would venture to guess that most members of the house and senate have never even heard the term fair use. They don't care about fair use. They will hear Viacom tell them how much money they are losing and they will act.
It may not happen, but it won't surprise me at all if it does.