Ars wrote a recent article called Rep “Hollywood” Berman calls for new IP law—using dodgy data. It’s an interesting read. I’ve pulled out a few of my favorite quotes for your enjoyment.
From Robert Pittman, cofounder of MTV:
“Stealing music is not killing music,” said Pittman. “When I talk to people in the music business, most of them will admit that the problem is they’re selling songs and not albums. I mean, you do the math… I realized that as an industry we’d kind of been smoking crack.”
And my personal favorite:
[...] director Steven Soderbergh, who is currently the vice president of the Directors Guild of America, wants us to become more like France. “Litigation is slow and the Internet is fast, so it doesn’t make sense to ask the government to be our police,” he said. “What we would like is to be deputized to solve our own problems, to be granted the kind of pull-down and inspection abilities being proposed in France so we can act swiftly and fairly on our own behalf.”
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