In Reply to: Re: Grow up, Mike... posted by williak on May 6, 2003 at 06:55:19:
Austin, you either work for one of these organizations, or you have the most defeatist attitude I've heard in a long time. What does this have to do with growing up, Austin. Because I refuse to accept the plans and schemes of the corporate/government machine? Thankfully in this country, at least up to now, the marketplace has rejected similar attempts to dictate what consumers can do with items or content that they have purchased(DIVX, for example). I do not believe that consumers will allow the industry to make their existing equipment obsolete. I am not so dependant on entertainment that I can't live without certain forms of it. I refuse to buy formats that promote extreme forms of CP. I can vote with my wallet as well as my pen. If the day comes when this country allows the Hollywood types to do all of things that they wish to impose on us, then we no longer live in a representative republic, but a socialist state. I, for one, will fight against this to my last. We just fought a war to end oppression in another country. Why are we so eager to allow it in our own?Mike
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Follow Ups
- Re: Grow up, Mike... - tenor39 07:55:12 05/06/03 (11)
- Re: Mike, smell the coffee... - williak 11:19:52 05/06/03 (10)
- Re: Mike, smell the coffee... - tenor39 04:23:04 05/08/03 (7)
- Re: A little late to the party... - williak 08:17:49 05/08/03 (5)
- Better late then never... - tenor39 11:57:33 05/08/03 (4)
- Re: Then why not be happy? - williak 14:18:38 05/08/03 (3)
- Re: Then why not be happy? - tenor39 16:40:40 05/08/03 (2)
- Mike, you're a PERFECT candidate for the Matrix... - williak 08:30:39 05/09/03 (1)
- Re: Mike, you're a PERFECT candidate for the Matrix... - tenor39 12:47:30 05/09/03 (0)
- Well said... That's exactly the point. - Michi 07:03:28 05/08/03 (0)
- And this is the reason why the music industry is in the state it is... - rick5 11:32:21 05/06/03 (1)
- Re: What you guys - a coupla kids? - williak 12:36:24 05/06/03 (0)