Comment Re:Hopeless Stopgap Measures by a Doomed Industry (Score 1) 285
I agree with your general idea (and I get the sarcasm in the comment about the US being the land of the free). However I am not all that sure anymore that the US should still be called the land of the free anymore. The reason for this is that it seems to be more and more that the US is ruled by something more akin to a dictatorship.
The dictatorship would be the giant corporations and their front organizations such as the MPAA.
From what I have seen, there are many situations where the elected government has no choice but to bow to the wishes of these almighty corporations!
You may wish to cite the Microsoft case as an example of the government confronting a corporation, but in truth is was the corporations attacking Microsoft in the anti-trust case, as they were the ones who cooperated so willingly with the government. This situation seems more akin to corporations fighting with each other than the people winning.
Too bad the culture of free is being targeted so heavily by the corporations now, as government has also joined in and will only commit itself more to the extermination of that which is free, because the corporations don't like it.
The dictatorship would be the giant corporations and their front organizations such as the MPAA.
From what I have seen, there are many situations where the elected government has no choice but to bow to the wishes of these almighty corporations!
You may wish to cite the Microsoft case as an example of the government confronting a corporation, but in truth is was the corporations attacking Microsoft in the anti-trust case, as they were the ones who cooperated so willingly with the government. This situation seems more akin to corporations fighting with each other than the people winning.
Too bad the culture of free is being targeted so heavily by the corporations now, as government has also joined in and will only commit itself more to the extermination of that which is free, because the corporations don't like it.
