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Subject Author Date Re: U.S. gov't more active in piracy fight Clark W. Griswold, Jr. 06-18-2006  Re: U.S. gov't more active in piracy fight imhotep 06-18-2006
Posted by Clark W. Griswold, Jr. on June 18, 2006, 3:35 pm If you were  Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > >http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/230 > >Translation: The music industry's lobbyists are working hard to buy the US >Senators to push their agenda abroad....nice eh? Well, maybe. I think the RIAA and MPAA have done far more harm to themselves than they've helped, but consider the following: The US earned almost $9B (that's billion) in revenue last year from world wide film sales & rentals. See http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/article.print?id=479 for the gory details. That does not include music sales. IIRC, entertainment is second only to Aerospace (ie, those Boeing 777s) for generating foreign revenue for the US. If the US is going to be outsourcing all those low paid manufacturing & coding jobs to third world countries, we need to replace that economic engine with something or this countries standard of living will quickly decline. Some fair means of protecting those assets would seem to be necessary. Posted by imhotep on June 18, 2006, 4:03 pm If you were  Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options Clark W. Griswold, Jr. wrote: > >> >>http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/230 >> >>Translation: The music industry's lobbyists are working hard to buy the US >>Senators to push their agenda abroad....nice eh? > > Well, maybe. I think the RIAA and MPAA have done far more harm to > themselves than they've helped, but consider the following: > > The US earned almost $9B (that's billion) in revenue last year from world > wide film sales & rentals. See > http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/article.print?id=479 for the gory details. That > does not include music sales. > > IIRC, entertainment is second only to Aerospace (ie, those Boeing 777s) > for generating foreign revenue for the US. > > If the US is going to be outsourcing all those low paid manufacturing & > coding jobs to third world countries, we need to replace that economic > engine with something or this countries standard of living will quickly > decline. > > Some fair means of protecting those assets would seem to be necessary. Sure but who is really getting rich? It is a fact that the middle class has been deteriorating at an alarming rate over that last ten years while the upper class has been getting more wealthy and this has nothing to do with software piracy...it has to do with lobbyist and Corporate America and the lack of our "representatives" in Congress actually looking out for the people that voted for them. Also, Americans generally are totally ignorant of the current state of affairs and monitoring their "representatives" falsely believing that Democrats are better than Republicans (or the other way around) when the same American corporations run both. Clearly lobbyist should be illegal... Anyway, that is my rant for today, Imhotep -- ************************************* Pass a Net Neutrality Law in the US!!!! Save the Internet: http://www.savetheinternet.com/ Its our net: http://www.itsournet.org/ ************************************* Similar Threads Posted Re: U.S. gov't more active in piracy fight June 20, 2006, 8:23 am Re: Microsoft Active-X Remote Code Execution Vulnerability June 28, 2006, 7:24 am New reporting solution for Active Directory and Network Infrastructure July 30, 2008, 8:41 am Get Ready: The fight for control of the Internet is coming October 1, 2005, 1:32 am AOL Offers Security Tool - Active Security Monitor June 10, 2006, 1:20 am Software Makers Fight Spyware Blacklist, Murky Definition March 11, 2005, 9:27 pm Gov't coerced Certs thwart SSL/TLS March 29, 2010, 2:08 pm The correct way to handle piracy: The BBC August 30, 2005, 10:00 pm U.S. Gov't to use Full Disk Encryption on All Computers December 29, 2006, 5:35 pm Software protection against cracks and piracy October 28, 2005, 2:46 am