MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren't Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought
Found on Wil Wheaton on Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Chris Dodd is not only an asshole, he’s a stupid, tone deaf asshole. And so are all the asshole Democrats who are on the wrong side of this issue because they want money from Hollywood.
Not that it matters, and not that I’m some kind of rich mogul, but I’ll say this again: I have lost more money to creative accounting, and American workers have lost more jobs to runaway production, than anything associated with what the MPAA calls piracy. Chris Dodd is lying about piracy costing us jobs. Hollywood’s refusal to adapt to changing times is what’s costing the studios money.
The entertainment industry always claims that all its actions are to protect the interest of the artists who would die a gruesome death with an unregulated Internet. Yet at the same time, artists like Wil Wheaton and Busta Rhymes speak up and blame the industry, making it clear that they don't protect them at all. Why can't law work both ways, just like it should? Let's have the big media companies raided and shut down while their books are double-checked and these accusations are investigated?