It's the control, stupid! (Score 1)

To paraphrase this whole MPAA ruckus, "It's the control, stupid!" The MPAA demands control over what people do with their DVDs after they buy them. It is the same old song-and-dance we have seen from the RIAA: content control after the sale. They demand it. People, naturally, resent it, but apparantly the MPAA/RIAA has found that people are willing to give up their freedoms and rights to protect the delicate industries from the evil,bad,and nasty pirates. (*cough* dmca *cough*) So, when the MPAA (or RIAA) starts waxing eloquently about how we need to protect the, against piracy of movies (or music), just remember: its a secret verbal encryption engine: What the MPAA is really saying is : "We want to charge people multiple times for the same item and clean them out not only in the price of the movie, at the theater, but also in the licensing fees for DVD players, and for the DVD movies themselves. And we want to tell people what they can and can't do with our media" However, that sounds really bad. They know this and encrypt their output so that instead, what you hear is their encrypted output: "We need content control to prevent piracy which threatens the artist and ultimately harms the consumer."