Broadcasters Want Cash For Media Shared At Home

marcellizot writes "What would you say if I told you that there are people out there that want to make sharing your media between devices over a home network illegal? According to Jim Burger, a Washington, D.C attorney who deals with piracy in the broadcasting industry, certain broadcasters want to do just that. Speaking in a recent podcast, Burger remarked that the broadcasting industry is keen to put controls on sharing media between devices even if those devices are on a home network and even if the sharing is strictly for personal use. When pressed as to why broadcasters would want to do this, Burger replied simply 'because they want you to pay for that right.'"

In other news

[drhamad]

In other news, paper companies want you to pay a fee if you reuse their paper.

Pay per play is a great innovation.

[Anonymous Coward]

Pay per play is the future of all media, both audio and video. Even software. This new technology of Pay Per Play will give the consumer the best value for their entertainment. Instead of having to pay for license to the IP forever, you only pay as much as you listen! This is obviously business responding to consumer demand. Write your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives in support for legislation to encourage this technology. This will help a lot of people. Just think about all the money our economy could gain? Remember, money is never gone, it just goes through the economy. So support this technology!

Yeah...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's when your face is my seat, and you get to lick my balls. Next!

Re:specifics?

[Lumpy]

what the mean is you record Tv with your Windows MCE. and watch it in your bedroom, You owe them $$$ for the privilege.

Personally, I'll pay them as soon as the Broadcast executives post youtube video of them actually removing their heads from their anus so they see the real world and not their fantasy world they create inside the colon.

Re:What if...

[Overzeetop]

No, but it does mean that you're TV isn't a vampire.

Re:specifics?

[rlp]

Yeah but you can't drink gasoline

You can, you just can't do it twice.

Re:No You Didn't

[LindaMack]

Stop being a sissy! We're just doing what our Sith Lord requires of us

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You will be assimilated

A foolproof plan?

[bluenovadesign]

If I have to pay to share songs throughout my house then I have a foolproof plan...

I'm going to turn up the volume in the lounge till I can hear the music in the bathroom.

Hang on...what if someone introduces a volume tax? Imagine the payments for turning the dial to 11! :(

Re:And this is news?

[AvitarX]

Anyone wonder why the thepiratebay.org makes $9,000,000 a year even though they don't sell anything?

Because they make billions (if not trillions) of dollars of work available for free?

I know that's why I go there.

Disclaimer:
RIAA and MPAA and others, this post is obviously satire. I would only ever go to the piratebay.org for Linux distros (so I can help relieve the mirrors) and movie trailers, but never CDs, TV shows, movies, or games.

It's all a conspiracy....

[slashname3]

It's all part of the book publisher's and librarian conspiracy. For the last couple of decades fewer people spend time reading actual books. They sit and stare at the TV all day or listen to music in larger and larger quantities. To fight this the publishers and librarians have been helping develop P2P software and slowly infiltrating the TV, music, and movie industries and getting them to enact this kind of stuff to alienate users. If the plan succeeds the vast majority of people will no longer be able to afford any kind of media except for books.

Look how far they have come, in a few short years most TV sets will no longer be capable of receiving over the air broadcasts unless the user buys a new digital set or tuner. That will drive more people to cable if they can afford it. At which point the cable companies and the show producers will up the ante and start trying to charge for each viewing of a show.

The decline of theaters is on going. Fewer people go to the movies now, many wait for the DVD to come out because it is cheaper at the moment to buy a DVD than go to the theater. Now that they have people conditioned to that they will increase the price of DVDs so most can not afford them or put DRM systems in place that make it impossible to use a DVD.

Librarian's around the world are all working toward this end.

I gotta hear this!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm going to download his podcast! I want to listen to it all the time, so I'll copy it to my mp3 player, the computer in the living room... D'OH!

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Re:specifics?

[clem]

What an ethically bankrupt position. Some of us get our drinking water from those rivers, you know?

Re:specifics?

[Anonymous Coward]

sound like you live in the big city - where you buy you gasoline on a group plan, or do buses and such still run on fairy dust?

And in the future...

[PaneerParantha]

2009

Broadcasters say that only one pair of eyes may watch a show at a time if the show is licensed for one pair. It cannot be watched by two pairs at the same time. A camera is defined as one pair. Same goes for ears and listening.

2010

Broadcasters say that you may not discuss a show with others. It is only licensed for one mind at a time.

2011

Broadcasters say that you mustn't carry the memory of a show for a duration longer than the duration of the show. It is copyrighted and you have no right to etch it in your brains. This constitutes violation of some license.

Re:specifics?

[binarybum]

what if you wanted a sword or a hat with a feather in it?