There are three things wrong with the MPAA’s all-out, multi-million-dollar war against people who share files online:
1. It isn’t necessary;
2. It won’t work; and,
3. It will further brand the entertainment industry as a venal collection of bloody-minded, black-hearted companies who see customers as ‘consumers’ whose only purpose in life is to act as cash cows for the likes of the major movie studios and the members of the record label cartel.
P2p file sharing is now part of the landscape in this 21st century online world. It’s here to stay and no matter how many international police forces the entertainment industry manages to suborn, or much money it throws at vanquishing it, it won’t go away.
Aided and abetted by various mainstream media outlets, many of which it owns and/or controls through advertising, the industry is using its MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), to stomp p2p and p2p users into becoming a part of its income stream.
It fails to mention that people who see movies in the cinemas generate only a tiny part of the income the studios derive from their productions. A very significant portion of its billions also flow from DVD and pay-per-view sales, various promotional and derivative deals, books, recordings, TV series: the list goes on and on
Read the Complete Article @ P2Pnet News
http://p2pnet.net/story/3306
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