Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo unite... to support internet censorship.

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Mr Khan said:

Seece said:

Mr Khan said:

crissindahouse said:

since i never crack games or movies it's good for me in one case. that would mean more money for the companies because people have to buy then instead of clicking the downlaod button. maybe ea willl get in the black then and don't have to fire like 500 more employees.

if it would only affect those things i wouldn't have a problem. no music videos on youtube? i could live with that as well i don't really need them only the music and i buy all music i really like.

but i have a feeling this will work not as good a s i hope and that this would be one more step to a world in many movies like equilibrium shown.

We have to nip this in the bud now. This bill is an absolute bad, and will not increase revenue that anyone receives, and will instead kill jobs. A lot of websites will go out of business if this becomes law, a lot of foreign websites will lose tons of ad revenue, and the gains made will be miniscule. Pirates do not become paying customers

Rubbish, you have no proof what people will do if they can't pirate something. It's wrong to assume they'll all go out and pay for games (or anything else), but it's just as wrong to assume they'll give up entirely.

More accurate to say that if pirates do become paying customers, that it becomes a wash economically. You don't generate money from nothing, and its not like these people who might be consuming certain intellectual properties are sitting on the money that they would be spending, but it is generally acknowledged in economics that a good deal of piracy comes from customers who you are priced too high to access in the first place.

 

 

Well in terms of music, many teenagers today have never bought any music, at all.  Zero. Nada. Zip.

So you're saying that if teenagers couldn't get music illegally online, they wouldn't be listening to music at all??

That's total BS.  In national polls in the US, most teenagers value their music collection the MOST--more than movies and games, and yet they don't pay for it.  They expect to get it for free, like it's an entitlement.  As a songwriter and producer myself, I can guarantee you that producing music is not free.  My 5-string Fender bass by itself cost over $1,000.  My Roland VS-1680 hard disk multitrack cost $3,500 when I bought it back in 2000.  Over the years, I easily spent over $10,000 on my synth/keyboard, acoustic and electric guitars, percussion etc.

When I talk to teenagers in some online forums and I suggest to them that they can save their allowance from their parents (if they get an allowance) to buy music.  That's what I did when I was a teenager, but to the young generation, most can't understand that concept.