Acidus wrote: The MPAA defines a home theater as any home with a television larger than 29" with stereo sound and at least two comfortable chairs, couch, or futon. Anyone with a home theater would need to pay a $50 registration fee with the MPAA or face fines up to $500,000 per movie shown. "Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That's a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends," said Glickman. "Ideally we expect each viewer to have their own copy of the DVD, but we realize that isn't always feasible. The registration fee is a fair compromise.
How out of touch are these guys? I'm reminded of how in A Brave New World the only sports that are allowed required massive amounts of equipment so as to promote consumption of sporting goods. These no talent ass clowns want to limit showing a movie to friends to maximize their profits? Fuck them.
EDIT: I spoke too soon. Isn't bbspot a fakenews satire site? Has there been any other confirmation of this? Google finds nothing. I think acidus and i got taken. EDIT 2 : Yeah, this is fake. But it's sadly almost believable (except for the part about biometric recorders on your hardware...). [redacted]
Wow, that really is outrageous. I mean, i'm pretty gratified to hear that they're at least being honest about their greed and not trying to couch it in some bullshit, but still. So, if I'm married with 2 kids, then i need to buy 4 copies of Flushed Away so we can watch it at home. Your reference to Huxley is apropos. Glickman's idea of reality is so insane that it would sound like satire if i didn't know better. How much you wanna bet that those registrations end up being used to get the names of likely targets for bullshit piracy lawsuits? It makes me regret the 200 dvd's i own, knowing that they each contributed to paying morons like this.
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