Ironic isn’t it, that you can tape a movie off the TV and nothing is said, but rent a movie and you get all this copyright crap.DUH! Like the trash one sets to the curb, according to the police, is no longer your property it becomes public property. Radio and TV signals that once it has left their equipment is no longer the property of that company,it is up for grabs.

Rowdy, Seems that greed rules everything or tries to now.

As to the filtering of the Internet and the phones that are already being done in the false name of security, it is about time that all these big corps start to pay us for entertainment, as that is how I feel about them listening to the phone conversations people have and reading the emails that are send and now wanting to hack into our computer packages to see what is going on or not going on. If they have that much money to waste, then by all means send every person who these companies rip off each month a 95% refund for the stealing of their customers information. Why should be pay for their spying also as we all know this will raise the rates of these services? more.

As for censorship or filtering-whose decision is going to be used, some right wing Christian Conservative who is closed minded and very narrow in their thinking and views of the world and tries to force their views on everyone else, sort of similar to what is happening right now in the political-religious screwed up mess we see now. What one person finds offensive and should be filtered, another person make not be bothered by it or what I may want to research may go against someones religious beliefs and they may be offended by it, but to filter information and only allow what some feel if proper for the masses is wrong and regressive to everything from scientific discoveries, medical information, education and other things that should be kept open for all. If some people don’t like it, they don’t need to look or else change the channel so to say.

If these artists don’t want people copying their music then maybe they should find another line of work, something where what they do cannot be copied. By making this their choice of work, the sharing of their product was/is the end goal isn’t it?

i just spent the past 2 hours watching season 3 of “futurama"[ free from the library,although someone before me mixed up the disc’s so i had 2 copies of the same disc]; matt groening did a good job of mocking the mpaa in the opening and he did well in mocking the fbi warning by showing it in an incomprehensible alien language. michael moore recently said he is not concerned about piracy of his movies and he objects to current copyright laws. “prince” recently gave away his current music[not a prince fan,couldn’t care less.] and then announced that he would vigorously prosecute anyone sharing his music. what the fuck is that about? i always knew that little fucker was crazy.

rowdy, I’m with you on that and I’ll add it doesn’t seem to bother them to fuck writers or in Microsoft’s case fuck their programmers and for that matter fuck the consumer who buys their inferior proprietary products or fuck emerging singers/songwriters or fuck small business or fuck the cell phone user or fuck anyone and everyone even remotely connected to the fraud they call a business enterprise.

Not to worry though cause of course their only going to “FILTER” the internet.  WTF is that code for.......?

i forgot to add; fuck microsoft and at&t;. what the fuck,add comcast and aol to the fuck you list too.

when i watch a dvd,especially when it has a “sony” label, i think about the only good thing about tape,you could fast forward thru the FBI warning[ dark helmet;” spaceballs” “uh oh fbi warning, prepare for fast forward mode”. it sucks that most dvd’s won’t jump past this shit,but sony is the worst shoving this shit in 2 languages. last week the record producers said that it is illegal for you to copy a disc you paid for. 45 years ago when i actually listened to the radio,i had a reel to reel tape recorder and i recorded songs i liked. i guess most people didn’t have tape recorders or the record industry hadn’t heard of them because you never heard a word about how the “artists” were being stolen from. a few years later when cassettes were commonplace and everyone was copying their vinyl to tape to use in their cars or give to their friend’s,still not a peep from the music industry. the beatles,the rolling stones,the doors, they didn’t look like they were living in poverty and they never complained that their music was being stolen. if the movie and recording industry are losing money it has more to do with their business model than it does with theft. mostly it has to do with their greed. it is interesting that the publishing industry doesn’t worry about people reading magazines free online,whole books are free online.hot new books can be purchased online for a fraction of their printed form. fuck the recording industry and fuck the MPAA.