Copy protecting the artist's work
Jack Rooney
The non-mpeg format audio and video codices, employing anti-copy codices,
and the corporations and companies and artists who use them exclusively will
destroy themselves eventually with their own greed. This is not about art or
artist's rights; it is about control - control of the music, film and
publishing industry by the entrenched giant corporations, power publishers,
and the mob. They are so desperate to develop a format to control
entertainment content they will ultimately destroy their own market share
and their own industry. Greed can kill you.
With the biggies all scrambling to protect their large copyright libraries,
it has turned into a real comedy of errors, where they seek to lock up the
family jewels while at the same time opening the door for independent
artists to walk in and kick some bootie with their independent music and
films.
This is happening right now, and the giants are terrified of loosing the
dominant market share they have maintained for decades. There are thousands
of independent film and music artists out there just waiting to be heard. If
you go to emtertainment sites like mp3.com, ifilm.com, FilmFilm.com.
Napster, to name only a few, you will find scores of very talented artists
exhibiting their wares for free. Yes, some of it stinks, but a lot of it is
good stuff, as good as anything you hear on the radio or see on television
or in the theatres. The giants hate this, because, for the first time ever,
people have a choice. Independent artists can showcase their music and film
work to the world as easily as opening up a website and uploading a
streaming media file. Now their work is available over the Internet for the
entire world to peruse.
What do you think will happen when someone comes to an establishment and
finds it accessible only with a credit card? Many will turn away and go
somewhere with a free show. The more free shows available, the more likely
they will turn away when someone wants to collect bucks at the door. The
independent, free artist is, and has always been, the thorn in the side of
the major music and film producers and distributors.
You see, in the bad old days, monopoly control of the music and film
industry was a fact of life. Over the last one hundred years of so, the
giants emerged as a vehicle for marketing and delivering entertainment,
music film and television content to the world. The major outlets were
cinema theatre, radio, television, and then music and video store outlets.
The giants gained control of these outlets through some pretty shady
tactics. In a typical music store or video store, there are only so many
"slots" on the shelves to display the music and videos of the industry to
the consumer. So for decades, the giants have resorted to rather
underhanded and devious and sometimes outright criminal practices in an
attempt to control those slots- the software industry is probably the most
current, familiar example of the standard modus operandi, where a certain
software giant refused to ship product to stores that carried it's
competitor's brand and literally censored its competitors off the shelf. -
they have been busted, but the same thing happens today and often in the
music, film, and video industry.
The giant labels do not want the work of artist they do not control on the
shelf next to artists they do control. So they just tell the storeowner, or
imply it with actions instead of explicit words, 'no independent films on
your shelves, or else'. I found out about this by accident when I asked my
video storeowner {a minor chain owner} why he didn't carry more independent
and alternative film titles on his shelves and he said, " The major
suppliers would object. They do not want those kind of titles (not talking
about porno here) on the shelf next to their product. They will pull their
films from my shelves and refuse to ship me major releases." "Really", I
said. But "isn't that a violation of the Sherman Anti Trust Act", I
questioned [I think it's a felony even to suggest such a thing to a
storeowner]. "It may be," he said, "I don't care. My bottom-line is my
cash register sales at the end of the day. If I can't get the major
titles, I am out of business."
The music industry operates much the same through the music industry
consortiums. This same scenario occurs in the record and CD industry. Music
stores and record stores operate much the same as videotape stores and, in
fact, music stores served as the proto-model for the current video store.
Again, however, the physical reality is the same, with only a finite number
of stores and a finite amount of shelf space per store, control of that
space is highly desirable from a marketing standpoint. The consortium in
this case is the Recording Industry Association and its associate members,
the major record labels.
In the radio broadcast industry, the giants used "payola" to bribe deejays
to play the songs of their artists only and disregard songs submitted to the
stations by non-giant artists, called "independent artists" Again the radio
station has only a finite amount of airtime or slots in which to play music
each day and the giants figured out a way to control these slots so only
artists under contract to them would receive airtime exposure of their
music. Bribe the station. If you hear it played over and over enough times,
you will be humming along with the tune soon and you will think it is great
music whether it is truly great or not. Sort of indoctrination through
repetition thing they are doing, a sophisticated form of Pavlovian
brainwashing.
The scenario is also endemic to the theatre and broadcast industries. There
are a finite number of theatre houses in the world and a finite number of
seats in those theatres. The major studios want people to go to the theatre
to by tickets to see shows they control, not the work of independent artist
they do not own, so they connive to keep independent films out of the
theatre houses. They do this by offering rebates to theatre owners, package
deals, concessions to concessions and the door, things the independent
artist could not possibly do. What are often termed "marketing incentives"
are nothing less than a sophisticated form of bribery through kickbacks.
There are about 350-400 average new release film titles released worldwide
per year. Yet there are thousands of films made each year by independent
filmmakers that never reach the theatres or the video stores. The 350 to
400 numbers have remained stable for about the last 30 or 40 years,
sometimes dropping as low as 250 in a good year [for the studios]. Do you
believe this is a natural magic number? It's a magic number range all right,
but it is not natural. It is artificially contrived by the consortium of
major studios who know that in order to maintain their profit margins and
profit levels on film productions they must limit the number of films
released in theatres and on video (this is also true with recording artists
and new record releases). The giants must limit the choices to the consumer,
to the buyer. Too many films released per year would cause greater consumer
choice and reduce the profit margins per film. More films, more choice, more
choice, broader sales base from which to choose, and total consumer spending
on entertainment {which remains stable at about 8 billion US annually,
adjusting for inflation, consumer spending on entertainment remains pretty
constant} is spread across a larger base, so the profit per film returned to
the corporate giants is reduced, and they can not allow that.
Independent films dilute the sales of major studio productions. So of the
350 films released from the 2000 or so made, what happened to the other 1500
or so independent films you never get a chance to see? Relegated to the
trashcan mostly, consigned to the sacrificial pyres of controlled
commercialism. Sure, some of them are probably real stinkers and probably
belong in the trash, but it would require a grand stretch of the imagination
to ask one to believe all 1500 non-playing, non-distributed independent
films are all bad.
The giants will do anything to keep these films off the market and protect
their market position. Next time you go to the theatre or to the video
store, look at the titles carefully, you will find almost all titles are
released by about a dozen major corporations (all associates of the
Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers AMPTP). Even titles
that are produced "independent" must have a stamp from one of the majors in
order to appear in theatres or in video store shelves.
This scenario extends into the television broadcast industry also. There
are only a finite number of stations and broadcasters. Just as with radio,
here are only a finite number of time "slots" per week that can be filled.
The major television producers want those slots filled with their
programming. Independent producers and artists have no chance of breaking
through the walls of this restrictive system. The giant consortium
controlling it all is the Association of Motion Picture and Television
Producers
The Internet is beginning to serve as a great equalizer. The development of
the MPEG format, which allows sound and moving picture images to be
transmitted across the internet, has opened the doors to markets for
millions of independent artists who were previously shut out of the
controlled monopolies run by the major consortiums.
MPEG, an acronym for Motion Picture Experts Group, who first developed and
set standards for the format, and, technically, it is a public domain format
anyone can use, has created a real problem for the majors. The giants are
desperately looking for a way to put a lock on this thing, but,
unfortunately, their efforts are in vein, because if you can hear it with
your ear or see it with your eye, you can record it with industry standard
recording methods. MPEG, or codices, or locks, or scrambler schemes, have
nothing to do with being able to record any sound or image you can hear or
see.
The giant consortiums of film and music monopolies are desperately looking
for the Holy Grail of anti copy codices. It does not exist. It never will
exist. It is a unicorn, a mythical being the giant dreamers wish existed
but which resides only in the colorful musings of fairy tails. The software
developers conveniently oblige them with snake oil from the wagon because
the giants are so desperate in the search for the cure to their ills that
they will try anything pitched to them from the roadside medicine show. They
are overlooking a simple fact of present technology that will not change: if
you can hear it or see it, you can record it.
In their desperate attempts to lock out the pirates, they will alienate the
consumer, who will turn elsewhere for entertainment content. The giants are
attempting to whip the current state of technology into compliance with
their outdated business model which is presently falling apart at the seems,
a model which is no longer viable or useful, probably never was of much use
except to the greedy, and they will die a natural death and end up consigned
to the annals of history along with the buggy whip makers and the milk man.
The giants are dying. Their illness is terminal. They have reached the end
of their life cycle, and their demise is inevitable and eminent. In their
place we will witness the rise of the independent artist. The internet,
streaming media, mpeg codices, cheaper and cheaper bandwidth, falling high
powered computer costs, and direct access to the consumer wanting to see and
hear a good show have changed the entire business structure of the
entertainment industry. This change has empowered the independent artist
with the tools to entertain the world. Let the show begin.
--
Jack Rooney
Http://home.att.net/~JackRooney
The Starmaker
"They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies.
They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause
we are engaged in... It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has
not hunted them down as pest to society and the greatest enemies we have to
the happiness of America."
George Washington
"I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young
nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen,
is the Jews.
In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have
lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated
themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to
undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded, by
objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within the state; and when
opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case
of Spain and Portugal.
For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they
have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen,
did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason
for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live
on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on
Christians and other people not of their race.
If you do not exclude them from these United States, in their Constitution, in
less than 200 years they will have swarmed here in such great numbers that
they will dominate and devour the land and change our form of government,
for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives our substance
and jeopardized our liberty.
If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be
working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the
counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not
exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.
Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born where they will nor how many
generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise. Their ideas
do not conform to an American's, and will not even thou they live among us ten
generations. A leopard cannot change its spots. Jews are Asiatics, are a
menace to this country if permitted entrance, and should be excluded by this
Constitutional Convention. "
Benjamin Franklin
topcover
fail to live down to your putrid potential.
Tc
"The Starmaker" <hld...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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The Starmaker
>
> You remain the most pathetic poster in the newsgroup, HoaxMaker - you never
> fail to live down to your putrid potential.
>
> Tc
How's your mother, dead?
topcover
"The Starmaker" <hld...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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Geri The Writer
>How's your mother, dead?
Okay, that's BAD. And your quotes and remarks about Jews are hateful,
ignorant, insipid and atrocious.
It's one thing to be tongue-in-cheek and stir the pot for the sake of argument
but quite another to be a complete, abominable ASS.
I guess I should read all posts before brushing off the trolls and forgers
where you're concerned. However, now, I have to agree with them and Topcover:
you are PATHETIC.
Geri
de Valois
--
Carl
We're bigger than Jesus! - JWLennon
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The Starmaker
You haven't seen nothing yet. I'm just warming up!
The Starmaker
It's not my problem they omitted their thoughts from your history books.
Blame your education system. It is a historical truth.
I know, you went to that school where they told you,
"George Washington never told a lie". I bet you fell for that too!
Peasants!!
"This prophecy, by Benjamin Franklin, was made in a "CHIT CHAT AROUND THE TABLE DURING
INTERMISSION", at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of 1787. This statement was recorded in the
dairy of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a delegate from South Carolina.) "
http://www.wcotc.com/facts/fact05.html
http://www.jeffsarchive.com/understanding%20jews/Benjamin%20Franklin%20on%20the%20Jews.html
http://www.qni.com/~seplslya/ff.htm
The Starmaker
The Starmaker
>
> AND you're still a sniveling coward, too. Some things never change.
You wanna piece of me?
The Starmaker
Listen, Honey...I say whatever I want to say and if you don't like it
you can go forth and multiply yourself!
I don't see how anything I have to say is any of your fuckin business!
I'm not writing children's books here.
The Starmaker
The Starmaker
Beekman
>Listen, Honey...I say whatever I want to say and if you don't like it
>you can go forth and multiply yourself!
>I don't see how anything I have to say is any of your fuckin business!
>I'm not writing children's books here.
>
>The Starmaker
>
Shut up punkass. Kick your ass as soon as look at you you pussy.
Mr. Whacky
<n3NX6.19901$aV1.1...@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>:
>Every post, Randy
>
>--
>Carl
>
Every post hackaktorassmonkeeboy
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Mr. Whacky!
What would you know about writing you sadistic misogynistic hack? You
bluster and bobulate puffing up like the fat little penguin you so
resemble. But unlike a noble bird you are a sputtering fool. You are a hack
with no sense of decency. You think that your violent egotism gains you
admirers? Hah, it gains you whores like the two well known ones who attend
you in your black path. All others work their paths against you and soon,
there will be a convergence of energy upon you, causing you to disassemble
your fragile id driven manufactured personality, hiding and held together
by patches of psychological chicken wire. Soon it will come to pass and you
will know the power of THE MIGHTY COALITION!
Mr. Whcky
>Karma, Randy. Karma. A concept you need to familiarize yourself with.
>Lennon would be ashamed of you.
>
>
>
Karma,Carl. Karma. A concept you need to familiarize yourself with. Stella
would be ashamed of you and probably already is