The Sky is Rising: report shows that entertainment industry is thriving; anti-piracy laws are about profit-maximization, nor survival<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Sky is Rising is a free 36-page report on all the ways that Internet-era "content companies" are making more money than ever, putting the lie to the funny statistics used by entertainment giants to justify brutal, overreaching copyright laws. Written by Michael Masnick and Michael Ho, The Sky is Rising shows that the entertainment industry's legislative battles aren't a fight for survival, but rather constitute a cold-blooded profit-maximization strategy that cloaks itself in the language…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is worse than ginning up a "crisis" in order to maximize profits is that it results in horrid laws with far-reaching consequences — such as the on-hold SOPA\/PIPA grotesqueries. #ddtb Reshared post from +Les Jenkins I can understand the desire to maximize profits, but selling it as a crisis is simply unwarranted and dishonest. … Continue reading “The Sky is Rising”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,79,42],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-media-intellectual-property","category-media-music","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32540,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/right-to-work-laws-explained.html","url_meta":{"origin":25843,"position":0},"title":"Right-to-Work Laws Explained","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 21-Feb-13 10:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, they're not about worker freedom or prosperity. 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