Big-label record industry shills. They're the reason that you pay a fee to 20th Century Fox when you buy a case of blank DVDs to make backups of your personal filesystem. Because obviously, blank DVDs are only used to bootleg music and films. For added fun, the fee only goes to the big labels - so the niche companies actually subsidise the big labels out of their CD and DVD turnover.
They also have some decidedly questionable ideas on what DRM software should be allowed to do on (and to) your computer. Oh, and they're at the forefront of the assault on the common carrier principle, which is one of the cornerstones of a pluralistic internet.
So you can see why their talking points would generate no small amount of animosity...
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
My concern is how to squeeze income through the terrible system they have built to get it into the hands of the producers of the media.
Indeed, as I said in the Direct Action diary:
And I don't really care. For me, the point is that Fox is massively "in your face" when it comes to its copyright rights. There was a documentary of the making of an opera where the stagehands had a TV on backstage and a couple of seconds of "The Simpsons" were airing, and the documentary maker couldn't afford the clearance, and had to paste a different image onto the screen. But does it have a "respect copyright" culture in terms of "think about the poor starving artist at the trickly end of the money pipe"? Hell no.
But does it have a "respect copyright" culture in terms of "think about the poor starving artist at the trickly end of the money pipe"? Hell no.
