[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=28902267#p28902267:3sqzejr6 said:
deas187[/url]":3sqzejr6]It's interesting that over 17 years ago the entertainment industry was concerned enough about the effect of the internet in digital piracy that they lobbied strongly for the DMCA to help secure their IP rights. And over the following 17 years, they were un-able or un-willing to create products and web-stores to sell their music and movies directly to the consumer.
What you're describing is basically the studio system, where a few vertically integrated Hollywood studios dominated the industry until the 50s. The government used to work a little better back in the day and anti-trust laws forced studios to divest their distribution channels. Hence, why 20th Century Fox movies no longer air only in Fox theaters.
Copyright laws are broken and they're only going to get worse (along with a whole lot of other stuff) if the TPP gets passed.
