The corrupt Media Cartel takes verbal pot shots at hardware manufacturing executives.
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/midemnet-mpaa-riaa-cea-execs-clash-over-drm-hardware-controls/This conference on the digital music business got off to a bang here in Cannes this morning when the opening-session discussion broke into a tense and sometimes bitchy disagreement about DRM between representatives from music, movie and electronics industry associations. MPAA executive vice president Fritz Attaway and RIAA chairman Mitch Bainwol immediately set their stall against Consumer Electronics Association president Gary Shapiro.
The gloves quickly came off between Shapiro, whose association runs a campaign to brief consumers on what he calls the “facts” about copyright, and the two industry reps. Bainwol said the CEA president, because of his pleas to abandon restrictions and liberalize fair use policies, sometimes resembled “a fringe, ideological leader”: “We are in a very, very significant transition,” Bainwol said. “Technology is the basis of our future. We have to be able to monetise product and, every time we try, you want to make it available for free so people can buy devices. Gary stretches the concept of fair use to the point where the notion of ‘fair’ has been eliminated. You have to protect the market value. [Gary] wants to morph fair use into a concept that justifies any consumer behavior to the point where you eliminate the value of property. Kids grow up not understanding that music and movies are intellectual property. You teach disrespect for intellectual property. Gary takes a concept, morphs it, makes us look like we’re evil.”
Shapiro countered: ”I don’t make you look evil - your lawsuits against old people around the country make you look evil. You’re very good at paraphrasing things I never said.”
Reading through the blurb and waffle from idiots like mitch shows that they intent to extort money from those building digital products that are capable of infringing activity, this of course is regardless of whether any takes place and why I used the extortion word, no other industry tries to strong-arm consumers to pay for something they dont use for example the cruddy mass produced pop culture goods put out by brainwhol and his cronies, stealth taxes are wrong as is claiming falsely that rights are being stolen when no such rights exist in law.
