>It's like the music industry ~20 years ago. You should go read some of the movie industry quotes from when Valenti ran the MPAA. He likened Video Cassette Re

>It's like the music industry ~20 years ago. You should go read some of the movie industry quotes from when Valenti ran the MPAA. He likened Video Cassette Recorders (VCRs) to a serial killer; 'I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.' [1] Yet his industry was dragged kicking and screaming to progressively more profitable media. VCRs made the movie industry billions. DVDs did it again. Bluray? Yet again more oceans of cash. And still the MPAA fought every innovation and did their best to limit the utility of each iteration. [1] https://news.slashdot.org/story/02/05/31/1622232/valentis-boston-strangler-testimony https://news.slashdot.org/story/02/05/31/1622232/valentis-bo...