Hollywood studios are asking the FCC to make protecting creative content online a core principal of its national broadband plan. In a late Friday filing, the Motion Picture Association of America wrote that if the plan -- due to Congress in February -- is to serve as a roadmap for high-speed Internet service for all Americans, the government must recognize the role content plays in driving adoption of new technologies. The filing came on the heels a September FCC workshop that featured testimony from MPAA Chairman Dan Glickman and Paramount Pictures Chief Operating Officer Frederick Huntsberry.
"Compelling content is an essential ingredient in the consumer Internet experience and a key driver of broadband adoption. Inadequate respect for creative rights online will impede the rollout of creative new content offerings, undermining the Commission's, Congress' and the administration's goal of ubiquitous national broadband," the MPAA said in its filing. "The government cannot let the anonymity of the Internet become a cloak behind which people think that unlawful conduct can continue unabated."
Read the MPAA's full filing here.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Hephaestus
previous post extended ..... In every single one of the cases mentioned the scare mongers where wrong. The Casette Tape allowed the music studios to resell their product again and again as the tapes wore out. The VCR lead to a new industry (Movie Rentals) and a new revenue "window" for the Movie studios.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Hephaestus
In the past the Media Industry (Hollywood, record labels) tried to stop every technological innovation. Player Pianos, reel to reel tape decks, casette tapes, DAT, VCR's, DVR's, blank CD / blank DVD sales, and MP3 players all come to mind. In each of the cases they used the same "its the end of the Media industry" drivel seen in this FCC Filing.
These scare tactics against new technology are nothing new and have been used since the time of Johannes Gutenberg when scribes would be put out of work...
Now for one last quote "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"