“Every once in a while, a Fool just has to sit back and go,
“Wow, that’s really dumb.” I shouldn’t be surprised when dumb
things come out of Hollywood. Robert Heinlein once wrote a
morality tale about how an overly militaristic society can be a bad
thing, and based on that, Hollywood came out with the campy action
movie Starship Troopers (i.e., “Bevery Hills 90210 goes to
war”).”
“But then the DVD Copy Control Authority (a name straight out of
a James Bond movie if you ask me) attempted to sue the ENTIRE
INTERNET. It’s like a class action lawsuit in reverse. Even for
Hollywood, this has to set some kind of record for sheer bulk
corporate idiocy. The mind boggles….”
“But attempting to use laws to prevent the natural
commoditization of previously proprietary products and the
resulting transition to a service-based industry… It’s like
prohibition in the 1920s. That’s not going to work. It’s not even a
holding action, it’s just… dumb.”
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