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Filed under: May 1, 2007, 3:26 pmFiled under: Uncategorized

There is absolutly no way anyone on the internet could have not noticed that we hate the MPAA and the RIAA. Here’s the internet’s standpoint in a nutshell in case you’re on AOL.

The record and movie industries have somehow forced laws and copy protection upon us that prohibit us from doing anything with our commercial audio/video media (DVDs, HD-DVDs, BlueRay Discs, CDs,…) except use them in the most traditional sense: put your cd in the cd player and watch your movies on your TV.

They often make us purchase another copy of the material for a different use and don’t allow us to make backup copies of our own stuff. (No! We don’t want to give it away to other people, just make a copy so in case the original gets scratched we don’t haveto buy another one…)

We think this is stupid. Their copy protection gets in the way of legitimate use.

Many have resorted to piracy because it is a) free and b) more user-friendly.

Those who don’t pirate, but still won’t put up with their crap are forced to break the law by circumventing copy protection.

We’re fighting a cat and mouse game. We crack them, they lock us down and shut down our internetz.

We’re convinced that if they stopped with their anal schemes everyone would profit. We would enjoy our media more, and in the end, they would make more money.

Please put your emotions aside for a moment and take a minute to analyze the situation from a sober point of view.

Ever thought we may be wrong? I mean… do multi-billion dollar companies really “not get it”?

Here’s what I think.

What huge music/film production companies want is:

a) money

b) more money

c) you get the point…

In order to make more money, they hire people who will try and figure out how they could best make more money. They have analysts and analyst-analysts and these analysts have a gigantic budget available available to them. They do studies and market research and apparently the results of their analysis has shown that if these companies were to give in to our demands, their overall profits will go down. I know you think this is wrong, hell I think it’s wrong based on all my knowledge, but believe me, if they would actually make more money by opening up their systems, they would do it.

Why do we assume that gigantic corporations just don’t have the brains to make logical conclusions about this topic? It’s only in their interest to hurt customers if somehow they make money by doing so!

They know we hate them, and apparently they have no reason whatsoever to tell us why this makes them more money. So we stay angry. In the end, could it be that it’s actually us who “just don’t get it”?