[ via Scripting News ] Michael Fraase on big media’s contempt for anyone, well, who isn’t them:
Let me point out that I am a copyright owner, as is everyone else who has ever created a work in tangible form. That’s all authors, for short. Authors are almost never members of the entertainment industry club. The entertainment industry hates authors almost as much as they hate customers. Sometimes, especially when authors get uppity, the entertainment industry hates authors much more than customers. Until recently, authors have always been seen to be at least a marginal threat while customers were seen as merely necessary annoyances.
Perhaps Hollings could withdraw the CBDTPA and replace it with a law which allows Michael Eisner to send armed thugs to our doors to extract tribute. Bow before the Mouse, slave. It’s in keeping with the desire of fundamentalists to return to a way of life that never was, and we wouldn’t have to put up with Britney Spears and N*Synch.
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