Reply #2: LOL this is stupid [View All]

Anyone competent enough to know which end of a soldering gun gets hot will mod their TV so fast it wont even be funny. These clowns are fighting a losing battle and I think they know it.

Come on people. Make the works and collect the sales, trying to preserve the rights into perpetuity through syndication etc is a losing game. Consumerism has grown too big for it's own britches, particularly in the field of creative works. Create the work, sell the work, then let it spread via whatever means it does. You can't stop that anyway. So you can't make 10 million a year anymore, who ever said that was a God-given right anyway? When artistic works provide a good living and little more perhaps the art itself will improve rather than be dominated by make-a-buck-quick no-talent hacks we have now. Maybe the height of the art form won't be dominated by people who want to become gazillionares because they happen to have a callipygian butt (J-Lo) or because they have a 14 year old face atop a 19 year old body wearing clamshell pants (Brittney).