Legalized Mob MPAA at it agian — Wants to ban certain TV shows from being Tivo’d

  • September 3, 2009 2:54 pm

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Theres nothing like a little anti-consumer, DRM loving propaganda to get you in the mood to slap a kitten and make new friends in the slammer. The latest bout of stupidity and utter ignorance comes to us from none other than the MPAA. For some time now they’ve been trying to break everyone’s DVR so that we can’t record what we watch. They claim such devices hurt sales, artists, and promote piracy — all of which are baseless claims based on fear and the never ending sense of entitlement, trying to squeeze every last penny from consumers. The latest in the plans to rape us all is yet again the same man beating the same horse. They’re on their knees begging, pleading with the FCC to allow some sort of “selective control output” which is really a fancy way of saying disabling your DVR from doing it’s intended job.

One thing we all have to recognize up front is the people that really spend the majority of their time pirating content will get around any and every new scheme companies such as the MPAA come up with while honest unaware customers will be burned by expensive DVR’s that don’t…well…record.

Moving on, one would think the MPAA, RIAA, and every other entitlement driven group of thieves would realize that if people aren’t willing to pay for something, it’s more than likely because it’s garbage. Make something people actually find value in and you’ll find people lining up to pay for said content left and right. Simply shaking a stick at them, groveling to your mommy, and breaking our toys aren’t going to help. The more the MPAA and mobs like them try to force even tighter DRM controls on us, the more consumers will turn to less legitimate sources, and the more profits will fall. Guaranteed!

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