As if he is any person who is the judge of what a "criminal" is.vansau said:MPAA President (Sort Of) Tries To Make Peace Over SOPA
SOPA supporter and MPAA president Chris Dodd wants everyone to know that Hollywood doesn't really hate the internet, but the battle against piracy is going to continue.
MPAA President Chris Dodd hasn't won a lot of fans lately. This isn't all that surprising, since the guy was a big supporter of controversial bills the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act. Once SOPA was killed - <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/115265-U-S-Congress-Shelves-SOPA>almost overnight after the very public Web blackout - the former politician wound up making some ominous comments about how Hollywood wouldn't donate money to Obama's re-election campaign. These didn't sit well with the general public, and Dodd <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.339636-UPDATE-Petition-Demands-White-House-Investigate-SOPA-Supporter>became the target of a petition demanding a criminal investigation of him based on bribery charges. While the White House <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/115648-White-House-Wont-Investigate-SOPA-Supporter>declined to pursue any action against the man, his reputation with the general public is pretty well shot. Now, Dodd is trying to make peace with people and claim that Hollywood really does love the Web and tech industries.
On Wednesday, Dodd was speaking at the Atlanta Press Club, where he stated that Hollywood is "pro-technology and pro-internet." However, exactly how the film industry is in favor these things isn't really apparent, because it seems that Dodd didn't really go into detail about this.
Instead, Dodd said that film groups were far from done fighting against piracy, going on to state that there needs to be a strong copyright protection in place for online content. He also claimed that nearly one-quarter of all global Internet traffic is copyright theft," although where he got this figure remains unclear. According to Dodd:
"We are not talking about overzealous film buffs or political activists making a statement about freedom of information. We are talking about criminals.
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"We cannot draw up a business model that accounts for the wholesale theft of our product. It's true for pharmacies. It's true for the automobile industry. It's true for software developers. And it's true for us."
Honestly, Dodd's comments feel like he's trying to do damage control and explain away the entertainment industry's support of SOPA and PIPA. The problem is that he very publicly criticized opponents of the bills, going so far as to call the internet blackout last month "an abuse of power" by those sites involved. Basically, he's managed to (possibly irrevocably) harm both his and the MPAA's reputations with a large number of Web users.
Source: <a href=http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/23/idUS13183087620120223>Reuters via <a href=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/02/24/mpaa039s-chris-dodd-extends-olive-branch-tech-industry>GamePolitics
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MPAA President (Sort Of) Tries To Make Peace Over SOPA
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Mr. Dodd, I'd like to remind you that just because you are no longer an elected official, that doesn't mean public perception is considered irrelevant anymore. It's bad enough when the LA Times piece on the Academy behind the Oscars showed the power in Hollywood being placed in the hands of a gang of old, out-of-touch white men.
With statements like this, you're setting yourself up as the old, out-of-touch white man to rule them all.
With statements like this, you're setting yourself up as the old, out-of-touch white man to rule them all.
Yes because one of the internet's greatest and best known qualities are being humble, showing mercy and forgiveness. I would love citations on stuff like 25% of the internet traffic is piracy. How is this measured and estimated as if we can even get accurate downloads per song/game, we can somehow know the exact usage of people to pirate?
He and the cause/industries he represents currently will lose I believe but if anyone for a second thinks it will be in anyway different with the whole current anti-piracy thing I doubt it. I seriously doubt it.dobahci said:
No they'll only be peace when either one of the new online content aggregators such as Google, Apple or Facebook decide to start buying out the old incumbents...they have the income and the financial war chests to do so, once they own these industries and figure out how they work don't for a second think it will be much different. Still be bogus 25% claims and crap like that uttered and cited as reasons for greater control. Their new industry groups will also probably be fronted by ex-politico's who obviously don't buy enough hair dye to match up all their facial hair.
Really don't think the fall of the old incumbent industry organisations such as the MPIAA is going to change much for the better. And if it is done by the likes of Google and Apple as I believe well they do understand the internet both technologically and financially, be interesting to see how they protect their investments.
And I've re-read it twice now still trying to find the word "sorry" anywhere in his words.....
I feel I need to say that despite everything, all the pirating sites do need to be taken down. Honest companies pay for the right to show their program over TV yet we all know so many people who do a lot of TV watching on certain not-to-be-named sites. And it's even worse with films, some of which haven't even had a DVD release yet.
But SOPA wasn't the one do to do it and I don't believe this man is the one do it. In fact no-one speaking on behalf of 'Hollywood' can be the one. We need someone who respects intellectual property but understands that it's not so important that we should destroy all else to serve it
But SOPA wasn't the one do to do it and I don't believe this man is the one do it. In fact no-one speaking on behalf of 'Hollywood' can be the one. We need someone who respects intellectual property but understands that it's not so important that we should destroy all else to serve it
(Raises eyebrow)...Riiiigggghhhhtttt... I don't think the internet gives two shits about this guy...
One of these days it's going to become obvious to most that fighting piracy is nothing but a money pit. Accept that piracy exists and that you can't currently fight it without pissing of paying customers.
Translation: We are going to continue doing what we were doing and nothing is going to change.
I don't think the internet cares what Hollywood thinks about it.
This isn't so much "MPAA President tries to make peace" (even sorta) so much as it is "politician covers own ass."
Defeating the pirates by destroying them is near impossible and likely harmful to your paying customers. Rather than stop pirates from their ways, compete with them (to take an idea from Extra Credits). They are already giving away your shit for free and without all the annoying crap the big publishers do to make it seem less worth it (DRM for games, poor translations for anime/manga, etc). Instead of making it seem more worth it to get our products from them, why not make us want to pay for the products your are selling? I've paid for most of my entertainment and am willing to pay for more so long as the quality doesn't diminish. But if it does to a degree where pirates offer better quality for free, then there isn't even a question of why we'd go for them.
Rewards for paying customers = DRM. The don't need to do anything special, just sell an honest product that doesn't put unnecessary restrictions on me. For example, which is the superior product, an official digital copy with DRM or a burned copy of the DVD?SilverUchiha said:
not doing a very good job is he ......Zachary Amaranth said:
no, there will be peace when some one that has a way to actually combat piracy with out fucking every one else over in the process steps up, or this guy diesdobahci said:
I'm ok with ether really
Its like he is trying to convince us that setting us on fire is good for us.
Hollywood is an old industry filled by old men who will never change their ways, we will show them better ways and they will ignore us.
Hollywood is an old industry filled by old men who will never change their ways, we will show them better ways and they will ignore us.