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MPAA lobbying for home theater regulations

The MPAA defines a home theater as any home with a television larger than 29" with stereo sound and at least two comfortable chairs, couch, or futon. Anyone with a home theater would need to pay a $50 registration fee with the MPAA or face fines up to $500,000 per movie shown.
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That's just about every house in America 😕
 
I think if that guy proposed that in person, I'd have to punch him in the face!!

"Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That's a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends," said Glickman.
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We need to have a middle finger emotion icon here at ATOT just for this reason alone!
 
This has to be a bad joke:

"Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That's a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends," said Glickman.
 
"Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That's a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends"
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What has this idiot been inhaling?
 
Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
This has to be a bad joke:

"Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That's a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends," said Glickman.
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What gives you the right to invites friends over?!!! If you do...you're um...STEALING! Yeah, that's right.
 
If our filthy politicians allow this monkey sh*t to pass it will be yet another domino down towards the death of liberty in this country and the official rise of corporations governing the people.

I wonder how much the American people will let big business rape them before they finally have the balls to do something about it? Our ancestors used to throw down over tea!!!!!!!

EDIT: wow.... thank god that it's only a joke.
 
If this was real, which it isnt...

Oh well, just have multichannel sound then. The description doesnt specifically say "at least stereo sound" as it does with "at least two comfortable chairs".
 
Originally posted by: toekramp
you guys are hilarious, bbspot = the onion
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This may be a joke....

However...dont think for a minute the MPAA/RIAA havent had this thought running in their heads.

 
Also anyone buying DVD's or renting movies from Netflix or BlockBuster, etc. has to pay $10 extra to cover the cost of possibly lending the movie to a neighbor.
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
It's kind of a sad statement though when people can take this kind of stuff seriously.
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I agree, the scary thing is that several people almost believed this because it's not too far off from the stuff that the MPAA and RIAA tries to pull. I do think this is a bit far fetched even for them ..... they'd just force tv manufacturers to add the $50 fee into the price of all tv's over 29" that are sold.
 
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