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Remember the discussion about piracy? SOPA Is a Symbol of the Movie Industry's Failure to Innovate

General Discussions » Remember the discussion about piracy? SOPA Is a Symbol of the Movie Industry's Failure to Innovate (Posts 1 to 11 of 11)

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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 7th 2012
  2. It is interesting that on the one hand Hilary Clinton says, "...when ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled, and people constrained in their choices, the Internet is diminished for all of us..." and the head of the MPAA is of the opinion that, "...why our online censorship can't be like China?", you have to wonder what the MPAA are really after.

    It is definitely a case of focusing on short-term profits because they are too stubborn to invest in research to profit from the potentials of the new innovative technological advances.

    The article highlighted well how the industry have always been keen to shout how technological advances are going to be the death of their industry. But they will survive this time too.

    But trying to stifle advances now will only strangle another possible avenue of revenue...unless they actually do know the potential but they want to suppress now in order to catch up and introduce the innovations themselves later but on their own terms.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeJan 7th 2012
    Demetris wrote
    http://m.theatlantic.com/business/archi … te/250967/

    Your thoughts ?


    Hollywood has been successful and will continue to do so. While I can't back up the statistics I'd guess the 3D experience has been very popular for them.
    Tom
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      CommentAuthorCaliburn
    • CommentTimeJan 9th 2012
    The youtuber Totalbiscuit made a good video about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM

    SOPA is bad. It means that if one of us posts something "illegal" in this forums. Maintitles.net can be blocked in the USA.
    Administrator at Streamingsoundtracks.com
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 25th 2012
    So, it comes in a more aggressive form to Europe as well; Internet as we know it changes rapidly.

    http://memebase.com/2012/01/25/internet … ean-style/
    http://www.demetrischristodoulides.com/
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeJan 25th 2012
    Here's a very good TED talk explaining why SOPA and PIPA are bad ideas:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I
    "Message board incredulity is the least satisfied emotion in human history." - Franz
  7. Steven wrote
    Here's a very good TED talk explaining why SOPA and PIPA are bad ideas:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I

    Should I say this quietly? Thanks for sharing the video - it is very informative.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeJan 26th 2012
    Please stop sharing and quoting links to videos.
    What three C&C releases would you take to the little Island of Misfit Noise?
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      CommentAuthorCaliburn
    • CommentTimeJan 26th 2012
    SOPA/PIPA is shelved Bregt so no worries ;-)
    Administrator at Streamingsoundtracks.com
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeJan 26th 2012
    ACTA however is going to silently come into full force while everybody was looking the other way.
    And ACTA is FAR more far-reaching than SOPA would ever hope (it's just not exclusively geared towards protecting Hollywood interests).

    So worry.
    Worry deeply and gravely.
    “The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.” ~ Lynn Lavner
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2012

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