Tarmle ([info]tarmle) wrote,
@ 2007-12-05 22:49:00
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Glitch
Listen, Glick, the movie industry is already doing the one thing that guarantees I will never illegally download their 'products', namely they are now making such deficient, low-brow, half-assed, worthless, over-hyped, over-funded, overwritten, sub intellectual, inadequate, substandard, ridiculous, inferior, scoff-worthy, malodorous, cringe-making, mismanaged, shoddy, insufferable, incompetent and defective low-com-dom crap, that I would never ever even consider wasting one single byte of my precious bandwidth on any of it. I would be perfectly happy to see every last bit of your meritless trash forever erased from the internet were it not for the fact that you are trying to do it by introducing a radically disproportionate mechanism: ending Network Neutrality!

Don't cover your ears Glickster, you need to hear this: Shrek 3 is not important enough to bring an end to our freedom. The only reason the movie industry can say it's losing money now is because they spent way too much on producing something that nobody actually needs and nobody really wants. The Western World will not crumble because they can't turn a profit, but it might if we lose the integrity and security of the single most important communications tool in history.

One way or another the IP delusional industries are one the way out. It's only a matter of time before the average consumer figures out that their 'entertainment' just isn't worth it any more, that the busker on the street outside the cinema is a hell of lot more creative, interesting and memorable than the claptrap movie they just walked out of. How long do you think they'll watch their technology subverted, their personal data ransacked, their legally purchased media disintegrating, and their communications tapped and blocked before they think: "But I didn't even like the Bourne Appendectomy!"

Anyone invested in the movie or recording industries with even an iota of common sense should be selling up now, while their stock is still worth the ferromagnetic material it's stored on. You know it can't go on like this. It just isn't reasonable in consider this a survivable scenario for anyone involved. I mean it. Get out now. This is going to end badly, and you know it.

Glicky, you are not adding to our culture in any positive way beyond uniting the rest of us against you. You are not curing any horrible diseases. You are not on a crusade of righteousness. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are not welcome here.



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[info]cargoweasel
2007-12-05 11:53 pm UTC (link)
You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake

You can't use that line, that's from Fight Club. :)

I'd say something about all movies and all music not being some monolithic block of bad things, even all of ""hollywood"", whatever that is, but I don't want to interrupt.

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[info]tarmle
2007-12-06 01:52 am UTC (link)
Ah, Fight Club.

Remember those days, when the test of a movie worth making wasn't $title =~ /(Harry|Bourne|\d)/?

I think that was one of the last movies I ever actually bought (along with a copy of Dark Star as I recall).

"I don't want to interrupt"

I was on a roll, wasn't I.

But really the question is: are any of those movies worth your freedom? What The Glitch is asking for is unprecedented access to your personal communications. It's exactly as offensive as being told that they should be allowed to open all your mail to make sure none of it contains an unauthorised copy of a DVD.

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