MPAA 'Settles' Another 'Victory' Against Hotfile For $80 Million That No Artists Will Ever See
Found on Techdirt on Wednesday, 04 December 2013
The MPAA will put out its press releases and bogus statements about how this will show other sites that they can't "get away with" enabling infringement, even as a dozen similar sites will pop up overseas where they'll be even less concerned with what the MPAA has to say.
The MPAA thinks that this will scare off other similar sites, but in their decades of "fighting piracy," that has never happened. Each one of these victories leads to... more such sites appearing, though in ways that are harder to shut down, less respect for the legacy Hollywood studios, and a general feeling that Hollywood refuses to adapt and compete.
In other news: in China a bag of rice fell over. The entertainment industry cannot force consumers to stick to their old business models. Home cinema equipment gets better and cheaper so less and less people want to bother with theaters. Not to mention that the MPAA wants to monitor you there because everybody is a cam-ripping, stealing pirate. The industry has only managed to make a fool out of itself and annoy comsumers with their lies, lobbying and whining.