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RE: [dvd-discuss] Christian Science Monitor Article on Digital Copyring
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- Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Christian Science Monitor Article on Digital Copyring
- From: Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:45:03 -0700
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Well,
don't get _too_ down on those greedy moguls. Greed, when it
comes
down
to it, is what motivates us all. I enjoy programming, but I _need_ to
be
paid
for it because I have a wife & son & a mortgage. So if those
"greedy"
moguls
don't think they will be able to make any $$$ they may not
make
any
films and then where would you be?
That
said, they're going about it all wrong (as they always have). Every
technical advancement has been greeted with "oh, it will destroy
the
entertainment industry" but after they figured it out they ended up
making
more
money than before. We've just got to kick 'em in the a$$
until
they
figure out that this is just the SSDD.
As far
as your patented rice, you're not too far off. The real
patented
crop
is genetically modified rapeseed (also known as canola), the
laywers
belong to Monsanto, and the farmer is Percy Schmeiser.
The
real problem is that he never _wanted_ the modified rapeseed.
He
makes
his living w/ _organic_ rapeseed, so the Monsanto crop, when
it
cross-pollinated in his fields actually _destroyed_ the value of
his
own
crop!
--
-Richard M.
Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com
186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the
LAW!
This over reaction in the USA by greedy
film moguls will only work in the US and the rest of the world will rip them
and that will be a good thing. I think the greed needs to stop now. Lets hope
the choke themselves on the greed..... Soon we will have lawyers going round
poor farmers in the third world with writs saying the rice your eating is our
patent and copyright..... Foxes will have to be called dogs and the space
shuttle will no longer be able to be called Columbia the country will
have to change its name too. America has gone mad..........