"As Jack Valenti, the chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, has pointed out, digitizing films is expensive. "Who is going to digitize these public domain movies?" he asks. I have an answer: movie buffs. " Thank you Captain Obvious. Why the hell is it that Kevin Kelly gets published in the New York Times for pointing out something so plain that one wonders what Mr. Valenti was thinking when he said it. Is it because he is rich and famous, or is it simply because he bothered to write them? I think its the former more then that later. I might ask Mr. Valenti if he owns a fork. And if so, if the company that made his fork has a patent on forks, and if not, why said company went to the expense of producing and distributing forks without having a patent to prevent competition. Making My Own Music |