Sigh.

This is what happens when techno idiots try and meddle with geek stuff.

 

Both the MPAA and RIAA would be in better positions if they both admitted that time has moved on, their business models no longer work, and deal with it (RIAA is used to the vinyl era, where they owned the studios and the presses....ie, had a monopoly. Now all you need is a decent computer, soundboard, and mikes and you can do 90% of what that costly studio did. At a fraction of the cost. All they have now is ad money, which doesn't work with bad performers, and contracts that screw the performer. MPAA broke itself; they hogged every bit of revenue so well the only way the trades could actually make enough to live on is to unionize and get some pay to equal their work. But the 'Hollywood Mystique' pushed the cost of living so high that it became cheaper to go to Canada or overseas...which opened up the can of worms about ease of access to finished footage to backers. And hence ripping and posting of unreleased films. Oops).

 

But these two cliques sure can buy the idiot politicians which seem to find it some kind of bubba cache to claim they don't no shit about the internet, but they know how to regulate what they can't even comprehend. For it they did, they would know that the net is designed to route around damage....or crush it. None of these weenies seem to grasp the idea that the net has pretty much ignored them because they weren't relevant. If they make themselves relevant, they will draw the ire of the black, gray, and white hats. And =those= people have the ability to strip any politico you want to name to the bone and make every dirty deal ever recorded public.

 

This is just more of their 'We can't do anything right, so we'll take on a soft target so we look righteous before election!' nonsense. Hopefully someone gets the idea that the target isn't soft before they find out the hard way....