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We Have Won! S.O.P.A Is Over (For Now)
Mac Green:
I cant even get in to PnR
Le Chuck:
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Mac Green:
--- Quote from: Le Chuck on January 20, 2012, 09:45:30 pm ---Send Saint a PM summarizing the forum rules, Be nice, Don't trick the auto censor, No rom getting talk, No flaming, etc and tell him briefly why the hell you want to go to PnR anyway. (Hint, all the cool stuff is out here)
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True Very True
SavannahLion:
Yeah, the fight isn't over and the studios will try a different tack. That's the danger. People age, people change, the studios refuse. Here's what I think will happen using a parallel.
Yonkers ago (I'm not sure of exact dates here) helmet laws were non-existent in California. Helmets were entirely optional for all age groups. A bill was introduced to the Legislature in the 60's(?) that required helmets for all riders in state. A similar protest rose and overwhelmed the Legislature, the bill was shelved.
Fast forward about five or ten years later and a new helmet bill was introduced. This one simply required helmets for all riders below 18. Law makers were playing a gambit and strummed the heart strings of parents everywhere. Not just motorcyclists. Motorcyclists protested yet again, but the cry of child safety and the desire of parents to wrap their kids in bubble wrap won out and the bill was passed into law.
Fast forward another ten or fifteen years. And guess what? The original bill was re-introduced and the law passed without so much as a blip on the radar.
What happened? The children, who were forced to wear helmets for years, are now voting adults. Since they are used to wearing helmets and now comprised the majority of motorcyclists on the road, this group of adults felt no reason to dispute such a law. The majority of older riders have either retired, died, or simply stopped caring. Coupled with the vast majority of voting non-motorcyclists who are also going to vote this into law, the bill was a shoe-in.
Informally, the term (at least where I've seen this) is called shoehorning. If a bill fails the first go around, then vector of attack is to introduce a much more lax (eg palatable) bill, wait the years out then gradually introduce the more draconian versions of the bill until you achieve your goal. For this to succeed, the bill writer (or someone who is like-minded) needs to stay in politics for years.
My gut tells me this is exactly what the studios are going to do, if they haven't already started. Not only do they have vast amounts of money on their side, they have vast amounts of time.
While writing this, I just realized what the vector might be that allows the studios to shoehorn their draconian laws even further into our lives. Tie "piracy" with identify theft. I forget the term that ties unrelated "bills" together like that but that's how a lot of pork belly laws get passed.
ark_ader:
No they will just go to another avenue to distribute their wares. Movies are not all the good lately, and I have been seeing more regular film actors taking part in TV shows, turning them into cinema quality productions. It is a steady income, the advertising pays for the medium, and we have companies like Netflix and LoveFilm dishing out the content on demand.
DVDs will go out of fashion, so will Blue Ray and finally like Laserdisc be a collectors item. I would not be surprised that old DVDs will rot away and digital content will be on flash drives.
Smaller, safer and can be locked.
Unfortunately Cinemas will disappear and only Imax will be available.
Direct to Memory Stick or Direct to SKY/Cable/Netflix/Lovefilm will be the norm, as we are getting bigger and better cinema quality equipment at home. Heck I can get 70" out of my projector with 5.1 surround sound for less than $500. Add up players, discs, traveling back and forth to the rental shop, missing out on popular rentals. Yuck. Roll on home cinema, only then will we get to vote on the latest blockbuster and tell Mr Spielberg that Shia Labeouf better not be in the next Transformers or Indy movie. :lol
That will be perfect, and then we can stop all this crap and get back to Battlefield 4.