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Sam and Friends BookYou see, it's stuff like that I don't mind... just the large scale punishments of people who both willingly and unwittingly post youtube videos that seems draconian and pointless.
Agreed. Like I said earlier, the guy who posted the Wolverine movie before it came out got punished severely WITHOUT SOPA/PIPA passing. The copyright laws are there, the penalties are there. They just want big bad government to step in and help them (especially since Fox is one of the supporters... you know, the news organization that's been shoving an anti-big government agenda...) because they have either the choice of spending a fortune prosecuting them themselves (and getting neglegable money back) or ignoring it, and wind up losing the amount of money they wouldn't get back anyway, since pirates wouldn't willfully pay for tickets to see those movies or CD's or iTunes anyway (they'd just go on without them).
I've heard that a certain amount of stores, both independent and national chains set aside a portion of money for shoplifting. Money lost by those who wouldn't pay for something that would be too pointless to try and persecute, or that fly under the radar. A true fan of anything would pay for the movie tickets, videos, CD's, as they want to support the artists behind them.
Still, TV shows they refuse to rerun or put on DVD or hulu or their own online streaming sites or even on demand will suffer as a result. I dunno about you, but I'm glad that I watched several episodes of 1960's Batman online. If they can't work out a fair compromise on the deal, none of them deserve it (except of course the actors, who are the ones suffering the most out of it). I don't see why Disney feels that they shouldn't release any of their old television cartoons from the 80's and 90's in full sets. I'd much rather buy them all up and watch them in something better than fuzzy taped off of television quality.
I'd have a lot more respect for this sort of thing IF it was about giving the artists and writers their fair share... but who are we kidding? Again, writer's strike. If a Writer's strike happened this year, we'd NEVER see them back, and we'd only see even more bad American Idol sweatshop clones. It's all about controlling the internet to make up for entitled revenues and to control content they only have a right to because they bought up all the copyrights they could.
