Check out this post on how the MPAA wants to regulate all Home Theaters.
It’s another example of how greed in corporations has gotten totally out of hand.
“Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn’t give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That’s a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends,” said Glickman. “Ideally we expect each viewer to have their own copy of the DVD, but we realize that isn’t always feasible. The registration fee is a fair compromise.
The bill also stipulates that any existing home theaters be retrofitted with the technology or else the owner is responsible for directly informing the MPAA and receiving approval before each viewing.
Hopefully, we as people can marshall our voices to knock senses into our elected officials to not be voices of these non-voting corporations but instead be voices to the actual voting population.? Of course, the MPAA is busy pushing their position.
MPAA head Dan Glickman says this needs to be regulated before things start getting too far out of control, “We didn’t act early enough with the online sharing of our copyrighted content. This time we’re not making the same mistake. We have a right to know what’s showing in a theater.”
The bill would require that any hardware manufactured in the future contain technology that tells the MPAA directly of what is being shown and specific details on the audience. The data would be gathered using various motion sensors and biometric technology.
Stand up and fight about this and other issues before the MPAA and RIAA make it impossible to watch movies or listen to music.
UPDATE: In my passion on this subject, I missed that this was satire.? Oops!? Given some of the actions of the MPAA and RIAA though, this bit of satire isn’t very far? of a stretch.