bigjnsa500's Journal: Columbia House phone survey

Since I am member of Columbia House DVD club, I got an interesting phone call the other day. It was a phone survey and they asked if I would participate. Since BattleStar Gallactica wasn't on yet, I said sure.

The questions were normal, "How many DVDs have you bought within the last 3 months?", "Will you purchase new release DVDs within the next 3 months?" and so forth.

Near the end of the survey, the guy asked a question that perked my ears up, "Have you ever downloaded movies from the Internet?" WTF!!?? HUH??

I tried to get the guy to rephrase the question. Do you mean IBM commercial/movies? BMW short films? Movies from iFilm? I answered yes because techinically I have downloaded those films from the Internet. But the question still remains is why they were asking it in the first place.

Now we hear today that the ex head of the ATF is now in charge of the anti-piracy divison of the RIAA. Are we going to start seeing Waco type events for music and movie downloaders?