Rosen does a bunch of interviews, and she comes off looking really good. (I thought) Valenti does an interview, and he comes off looking like Satan. Allow me to share a few of the high points with you before you plunge into this link...

] I wasn't opposed to the VCR.

... we just wanted a peice of all the money from it.

] It was a 5-4 Supreme Court decision that determined VCRs were
] not infringing, which I regret. As a result, we never got the
] copyright royalty fee, but everything I predicted came true.

Bullshit. Nothing you predicted came true. And I would take to task the $3.5 billion figure he cites for analog piracy. I am will to bet thats based on the number of blank VCR tapes sold, which dosen't mean shit. Not to mention, it assumes that something copied is something not bought, and in turn a complete loss. Their formulas are flawed.

] Now the difference between analog piracy and digital piracy
] is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

He used the "lightning and the lightning bug" line AGAIN! Hasn't someone told him yet that it dosen't even make any sence?

] It now costs about $350,000 to produce a CD; it costs $80
] million to make and market a movie. Big difference.

And DVDs are only slightly more expensive then movies.. But I'm bashing Valenti and the MPAA here, not the RIAA. I digress.

] Right now, any professor can show a complete movie in
] his classroom without paying a dime--that's fair use. What
] is not fair use is making a copy of an encrypted DVD, because
] once you're able to break the encryption, you've undermined
] the encryption itself.

ARGH! This guys must masturbate while looking at a copy of the DMCA.

] But you've already got a DVD. It lasts forever. It never
] wears out. In the digital world, we don't need back-ups,
] because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless.

BULLSHIT.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/31/1043804519345.html

] Today, it's illegal to copy a videocassette. No one has a
] fair use to copy a videocassette. If you lose it, you get
] another one, and there's nothing wrong with that. That's
] what people have been doing for generations.

ARGH! ARGH! ARGH!! I don't even know where to start with this one..

] If you don't have tightly focused, narrowly drawn mandates,
] either regulatory or congressional, then, if I'm a maverick
] computer maker in Taiwan, I can say, "Hell, I'm not going
] to play by the rules. I'm going to do it so everybody can
] copy." Then Toshiba and Sony and IBM can say, "Well if he
] does that, then I want to do it." We always operate on the
] fact that everybody needs to know that there's a 55 mph
] speed limit. That's called a standard.

Has he been in a box for the past 10 years? Or maybe someone drives him everywhere? Or he is too busy looking at the DMCA and masturbating to notice that the 55 mph limit is gone.

] At all costs, the government should stay out of censorship,
] except in war.

Jack dosen't want freedom of the press either..

] But in any other arena, I'm totally opposed to censorship
] in any form. I'm a great believer and defender of the
] First Amendment.

You can't have it both ways Jack...

] I think lobbying is really an honest profession.

sigh.

] Known for his sharp rhetorical abilities, Valenti always
] speaks about piracy in calamitous terms, prophesizing the
] eventual death of the movie industry.

These are 'sharp retorical abilities' ?!?

Lightning and the lightning bug? The 55 mph thing? Saying one statement and then pretty much contradicting yourself in the next sentence?

This guys sucks. Really..