Perfectly toned open letter to Jack Valenti and Michael Eisner. Right on the mark.
i had never heard the story about turings death. hes obviously far too intelligent for it to have been accidental.
lkb and i saw a bunch of Turning Machines in Berlin at a very interesting show....
"If $200,000,000 movies are so important, then Valenti should ask Congress for a direct payment. It's certainly better than creating the necessary mechanisms to police the use of bits."
While this quote isn't a serious suggestion, it does make a good bit of sense. Or it illuminates how what they're asking for is so weird. Like they want to cripple all advances in digital culture just so they can keep making these really expensive and totally crappy (in my opinion - except for LotR which rocked) movies. Just asking for government subsidies for their industry actually makes much more sense.
Of course they'd actually get subsidies around the same time someone finally invents copy proof distributable digital files. In other words they wouldn't ever get them. Obviously.
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- jim 3-03-2002 3:59 pm
i had never heard the story about turings death. hes obviously far too intelligent for it to have been accidental.
- dave 3-03-2002 5:05 pm
lkb and i saw a bunch of Turning Machines in Berlin at a very interesting show....
- Skinny 3-03-2002 8:42 pm
"If $200,000,000 movies are so important, then Valenti should ask Congress for a direct payment. It's certainly better than creating the necessary mechanisms to police the use of bits."
While this quote isn't a serious suggestion, it does make a good bit of sense. Or it illuminates how what they're asking for is so weird. Like they want to cripple all advances in digital culture just so they can keep making these really expensive and totally crappy (in my opinion - except for LotR which rocked) movies. Just asking for government subsidies for their industry actually makes much more sense.
Of course they'd actually get subsidies around the same time someone finally invents copy proof distributable digital files. In other words they wouldn't ever get them. Obviously.
- jim 3-05-2002 10:37 pm