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Movie industry is guilty for existence of DMCA 1201 garbage. They shouldn't be demanding anything.
by shmerl 3y ago
Movie industry is guilty for existence of DMCA 1201 garbage. They shouldn't be demanding anything.
- mistrial9 3y agotwo people I knew while growing up, have made a lifetime of upper middle class income by being part of making and enforcing systems of Hollywood IP. Movies cost a lot of money to make, and distribution is a business challenge. Meanwhile, stats show that massive network traffic is pirated movies, and more massive network traffic is Netflix. I don't see that either side of this debate is blameless, or obviously in the right. This is policy with economic tradeoffs.
- shmerl 3y agoIt's say it's all already skewed in favor of DRM proponents and all for bad reasons. So any movent even further in that direction should be strongly opposed. See also: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/introducing_gogcom_drmfree_movies/post499 https://www.gog.com/forum/general/introducing_gogcom_drmfree... I.e. many of these reasons have nothing to do with profit, they are about power and control.