I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view…

Yes blame the citizens for not standing up and saying to the corporations “we wont take this anymore and you need get your shit straight.

Oh… and if you guys elect another family member from Bush’s blood line, I can promise you, you will be the laughing stalk of the rest of the world and will no longer be taken seriously.
Oh… another thing that brings me to calling the Americans idiots/stupid Your paying 30x’s for your health, check out sicko to find out the complete story.

Or at *least* 500 years.

An apostrophe doesn’t go in between “s” and “n”

Ughh..no shit sherlock, property theft even extends into the real world with cars, money, and electronics being stolen as well. Here’s a cookie, now go sit in the corner.

This is not an issue of Americans or American corporations. This is an issue of greed and hubris pure and simple. It crosses borders and all other imaginary lines.

It seems all too clear that the MPAA is just tired of being the media whipping boy of piracy defense sites. My guess is they made this statement to be proactive in taking the spotlight off of themselves and to open up other anti-piracy organizations that defend mediums other than films to criticism.

It really says something about their agenda when they would willingly turn on another piracy-prone industry just to build a “if they do it too, we can’t be that bad!” image…

A cynic, I be.

Easy. The person who hasn’t bought themselves a Senator is in the wrong.

Here are some who have been bought:

http://www.house.gov/feeney
http://lamarsmith.house.gov/
http://bono.house.gov/
Senator Ernest “Fritz” Hollings

http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-and-mpaa-fund-anti-piracy-politicians/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/09/22/copycontrol_senator_sleeps_while_fairuse/

“Anyone fan-crazed enough to read digital photographs of the pages a few days before the real copy comes out is also someone who is going to buy a real copy. And anyone who will read the digital photographs instead of the real book would have borrowed a copy from a friend. My guess is that the publishers will lose zero sales, and that the pre-release will simply increase the press frenzy.”

The MPAA (and other big media turds) will lie and distort to their dying days in order to gain, maintain and devour control of EVERYTHING.

And Amercians aren’t stupid just because large corporations based there are trying to rule the world. Americans will only be stupid if they let them get away with it. The French, so reviled by the U.S. right wing, riot in the street sover the price of cheese. Where’s the willingness of Americans to lay their bodies on the line for the freedoms they hold so dear?

The whole world is watching – and waiting.

Yet… a lot of people all over the world don’t see that the crappy US laws and “other things” are hidden behind “All this money you guys make” when in reality over 70% of the US citizens are in dept till after their dead.

Now I’m not saying that people aren’t trying, but shit that isn’t right in the rest of the world, people unite in their countries just to make it right. I guess you can say that their are too many people that just don’t give a fuck in the US for the things that make their life worse, but are pissed when they get fucked in the end.

Ah, it was THAT instance I remembered when MediaDefender said it wasn’t an intentional public “entrapment”. They were just “testing” some inovative distribution methodes there!

thank you for that breath of fresh air! Enough already with gross generalizations!

$17 Book > Billion Dollar Movie Idustry??!?!?!