Now Playing: Eric Carmen-All By Myself
Saw this in the news today, that an American GI was killed in Bagdad while out shopping for DVD's. I am assuming that the DVD's would be pirated copies what with the embargo being on for so long and everything. I wonder how long it will be before the RIAA and the MPAA will comment on this being the just deserts for a movie "pirate" and that doing something as horribly illegal as buying a DVD that is a pirated, badly camcordered copy of a now playing movie is viciously and morally unacceptable. I hate those guys.
Soon, if their own self generated press is to believed, there will be thousands of kids dragged out of their parents basements as evil movie and music pirates and those kids will have their lives ruined by this group of myopic thuggish idiots in an effort to enforce an unenforceable "law" which they bought and paid for by their lobbying efforts. Well, I don't think they have enough lawyers to drag everyone into court. Of course, the object is not to drag anyone into court. What they want to do is to file charges on some folks who they expect will fold up like a deck of cards and settle for some thousands of dollars. This result will provide them with "examples" and their theory is that there will be a lessening of file trading as a result. Humm. Nope, I don't thing so. What will happen is that some folks will actually fight back, most folks will get angry. The artists who support this effort will be boycotted and it will be nasty all around. But, like any other interest catching event, it will be fascinating to watch.
Posted by gilbert davis
at 11:57 AM EDT
