Instead Hollywood is the place with more Bentleys, Rolls and Ferrari, I have seen and I have been in Monaco, NY, London, Switzerland, Paris, Moskou, etc.
Owners were not great looking superstars but mostly old ugly men. No other industry can allow not to listen to its customers for 15-20 years and live in total luxury.

Only in the US you have all you can eat services like Netflix. The industry should work with low-priced all you can eat models and focus on selling it to every household in the world instead of predatory piece pricing for the happy few.

The sooner Hollywood accepts this new reality the better. They might have to trade their Ferrari for a BWM 7 or Mercedes S but this would just align them with all established industries in the world…

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92I0hrYvdjI
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/35405496

The end purpose of this bill is not to protect anyone from piracy its to squelch places that independence companies, artists etc can get their product to the public by claiming that these same places are potential places for piracy. Put simply allow these corporations to censor the little guys and you kill innovation and allow them to have a competition free market.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-28-valve-piracy-a-non-issue-for-steam

I don’t think the author was overreaching in calling for some sort of compromise. In fact, that’s what needs to happen next. Now, the RIAA are like the Keystone Kops so they’re harmless. I’m not worried about them. But the MPAA… They are headed by former senator Christopher Dodd. He has the political capital in Washington to take this further if he gets ornery. In the meantime I’m sure they’re just letting this die down a little bit while they circle the wagons. I’ve heard talks them getting states to take this on. Right now, states are begging Hollywood to film stuff in their states so they can generate the revenue for businesses. All Hollywood needs to do is start lobbying states. They have the money, they have the angles to withhold spending in particular states. Could your state be in jeopardy? Could mine? Probably. But I don’t want to see a single citizen be restricted from the internet. Remember, the internet is still in its infancy. There is still a lot of evolving or devolving to be done.

Now, in full disclosure, I am a friend of Tom’s and work in the music industry. I am against SOPA/PIPA. I honestly think there needs to be a compromise and it does need to be done outside of the Washington vacuum. What could be scary is that the compromise could end up being done between Washington and the big internet players. I think Facebook, Google, and others have shown that their interests are more in line with big business than it is with the people that consume their products – us, the people.

Art vs. Commerce has always been there but the reality is that, to an extent, commerce needs to be there to a certain extent. I haven’t seen that many rich people that are good at making music and movies. It takes a lot of people working for them to make good movies and music.