Entertainment industry
...puts consumers in cross hairs
By Dan Gillmor
If the business people who rule the entertainment industry had been as powerful 25 years ago as they are today, you'd be breaking the law if you set your videocassette recorder to tape your favorite Olympic event for later viewing. The VCR, assuming the entertainment industry would have allowed a manufacturer to sell it, would not have a fast-forward button because it would let you skip through the commercials without viewing them.
As for tape recorders, you would not have been able to make a copy of the music you just bought so you could play it in your car.
[Siliconvalley.com]
...I need to make this clear...these people are out to screw us. They want to dictate to you what, when and how you will entertain yourself. They will do anything, and we are the victims...mj
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