This is a blog. A contemplative online presence aimed at presenting, commenting, scrutinizing and/or discussing a wide range of topics in the sphere of media, politics, technology, social justice, art, civil dissent and other subjects in our increasingly globalized network society.

fake watchreplica watches

Hypocricy in Hollywood // #piracy #lobbyism

Posted on | March 4, 2012 | No Comments

Paralegal has made this brilliant infographic highlighting the hypocricy in the movie industry when it comes to piracy. One of the things worth noticing the most is how their most profitable source of income – box office sales – are continuing to grow, but still they are spending over 120 million dollars annually (equal to sales of more than 15 million tickets) on lobbying for political initiatives such as ACTA, SOPA and PIPA that seeks to censor the Internet and jeopardize netneutrality and even basic human rights of free expression – simply to increase their revenue.

Category: Rights issues, Technology
Tags: > > > > > > > >

Comments

Leave a Reply





  • About this blog

    Welcome to the autofunk.dk/freeform101_web blog, a contemplative online presence aimed at presenting, commenting, scrutinizing and/or discussing a wide range of topics in the sphere of media, politics, technology, social justice, art, civil dissent and other inspiring and/or troublesome subjects in our increasingly globalized world and network society.

    The blog is edited by Christian Villum.

    The 'megasolutions to microproblems' tag is a word remix of a compilation series title coined by Soul Jazz Records

  • Archives

  • RSS Feed

    Click here to subscribe

  • Contact the editor

    editor@autofunk.dk/freeform101_web

  • Support

    Freeform101 takes several hours a week to curate and edit. Any modest donation will be highly appreciated. Thank you.

  • Support


    Open Share Icons

    Bloggers' Rights at EFF

    Support CC