Today, get an update on the ongoing war by the entertainment industry against privacy and civil liberties. Oppressive intrusiveness for its own sake isn't Hollywood's intent. But it is the effect. The movie and music industries are frantic because people . . .
Today, get an update on the ongoing war by the entertainment industry against privacy and civil liberties. Oppressive intrusiveness for its own sake isn't Hollywood's intent. But it is the effect. The movie and music industries are frantic because people are downloading copyrighted CDs and DVDs from the Internet. A moral sea change has led to a widespread belief that anything in digital form is de facto in the public domain.

Digital technology makes piracy very hard to stop. Doing so requires means bordering on the totalitarian. Again, the industry has no totalitarian aims. Yet it is trying for commercial reasons to impose politically dangerous intrusiveness.

When a new movie appears, Hollywood wants to distribute it only in theaters until the film has made as much money as possible, when it will be released on digital video disc.

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