Utilizing 'loopholes' in the law is not evading taxes. You wouldn't pay full price when something is on sale, so why should someone have to pay more than the law allows? As long as you are within the letter of the law, there is no problem, and it's not unpatriotic. Renouncing your citizenship, and turning your back on the country that made your business possible, THAT is something else entirely, and is most definitely unpatriotic.

I doubt they will win. While the music industry is tanking, the movie business is still more profitable than ever. The reason: 1. You can't download the experience of going to a nice movie theatre (especially a REAL IMAX theatre). 2. FIlms make a great deal of their money off of television deals.

I'd take a look at Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog or Megaman comics. I'm 27 and read them, but they are definitely age appropriate for a 3 year old. Archie sells paperback compilations of the issues as well, which should be easier for your kid to read than actual comics that can rip.

It's not necessarily an improvement. Framerate has always been a stylistic choice. With the digital cinema cameras now, you can shoot 24p, 30p, 60p etc. One isn't 'better' than the other necessarily - it's all about how you want the motion in your work to look.

You know you can turn off that interpolation right? Most TVs come with them on by default. Turn it off, and 24p content will look more 'normal' again.

Digital cinema cameras shoot typically with the same shutter speed as a film camera - that is 1/48 sec for 24fps footage, in order to appear more like film. This is why all of the 4K cameras now look very close to film.

That doesn't change the fact, that when you shoot in 24fps, your shutter speed is 1/48 sec. If you were to shoot in 48fps, your shutter speed will be 1/96 sec. A faster shutter speed eliminates motion blur and creates a sharper image, and so merely dropping every other frame is going to result in different video. You'd have 24fps video shot with a 1/96 shutter, as opposed to 24fps video shot with a 1/48 shutter. To see the effect a higher shutter speed has, look at the opening of saving private ryan, or some of the fight scenes in gladiator. You can tell when the effect hits: everything will look very crisp and appear to strobe. This would be the opposite of what you want.

And your opinion can be safely ignored. Did you know that in conventional 24 fps film projectors, the shutter displays each frame twice? Do you know why? Because 24hz would produce flicker! Old films which ran at 16fps flickered, because when projected they were being displayed at 32hz. The concept of refresh rate certainly applies to even conventional cinema. You could construct a projector to display every frame 6 times, for 120hz (which is what those new Tvs do), or you could display each one once and have everybody's eyes explode.

Just because it is shot at 24fps, does not mean it has to be displayed at 24hz.

The MPAA is not going to become useless like the RIAA has, because you will still always need distribution to theatres. There's no difference between a CD you buy in a record store, versus one you download: it's still being played on your iPod or stereo. No film you buy is going to be shown in a theatre. People still like going out to the movies. As such, the MPAA is never going to disappear, since its member studios are one of the only ways to get wide theatrical distribution. Self distribution on any significant scale is just not possible, even with digital technology.

You do know this isn't law yet, right? And you also know that Obama has said he would veto it if it ever came to his desk right? The sky isn't falling dude.