MPAA and RIAA Voted Top Of The League Of Anti Tech Organisations

[GhostShip]

This might be big news for others but we here know these luddites ard all about their system of corrupting democracy with their "donations" to "friendly" politicians.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140081-c,technology/article.html

The Internet economy should be a boon for digital media companies and for those of us that like to buy our music and video online. It's also a very powerful way to connect with people of like mind with a view toward learning about new things to watch and listen to. Unfortunately, the content owners in the record and movie industries have mainly seen the Web as a platform for piracy, and have mainly failed to adapt their businesses to the realities of online, as one lonely industry executive recently admitted.

The record and film industries are represented in legal and policy matters by two major organizations--the RIAA and the MPAA--with some key individual companies like Warner Music Group and Disney acting on their own behalf in certain cases. The RIAA and MPAA have exercised considerable political and economic influence to push a legal and policy environment in which the content owners keep tight control of the way their content is distributed and used.

In 2006 alone, the RIAA reported lobbying expenses of $1.5 million, while the MPAA reported $1.8 million. The RIAA retained the services of 13 outside lobbying firms in 2006 to help make its case to lawmakers, while the MPAA used 17 outside lobbying firms.

The content owners also donate to candidates for federal office as a way of furthering their long-term agendas. For example, Time Warner gave $17 million to various candidates for federal office between 1989 and 2005, says the Center for Responsive Politics. The Walt Disney Company donated almost $9.5 million during that period.

It seems clear to me that anyone voting for a candidate that has taken a "donation" from these organisations that practice economic terrorism on the young the old and the infirm (in fact anyone unable to pay for a good lawyer) is in reality helping to undermine their own democracy, libery is something the founding fathers of the US constitution made a big thing over, are folks in the US so easily bullied into handing it over to possibly corrupt politicians who seem to work for back door cash ?

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No more or less so than the rest of the world and there corrupt politicians i guess 

[Cobra]

Everyone is out to make a quick or extra buck these days.

Whether it is under the table or through fully-visable means makes no difference. I believe you would be hard-pressed to find any long-standing or struggling new political candidate of any kind that hasn't taken money or something else under the table at some point as persuasion to lean a vote this way or that. This particular incident just happens to affect filesharing unlike most of the rest.