crudman
Aug 2005
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Originally posted by isinginthebanned
I wish Jack Valenti would hurry up and die already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Valenti
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In 1966 ... [he] became the president of the Motion Picture Association of America [MPAA].
In August 2004, Valenti, then 82 years old, retired and was replaced by Dan Glickman.
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During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. Valenti became notorious for his colorful attacks on the Sony Betamax VCR, which the MPAA feared would devastate the movie industry. He famously told a Congressional panel in 1982, "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." Despite Mr. Valenti's prediction, the home video market created by the VCR ultimately came to be the mainstay of movie studio revenues throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s
Looks like he's made a career out of attacking technological change. First he attacked the VCR, later he attacked the internet.
BTW, were it not for that single supreme court justice vote in that betamax case, VCR's and taping on them would be illigal now. Plus, initially they were going to vote to uphold the lower court which was to make it illigal. Amazing how such a "small" thing as a single vote swing could have changed our society so drastically. Plus all the studios that were afraid of losing money from a VCR actually made huge piles of it from selling video tapes.
Why doesn't the frigging music/movie industry EMBRACE the change of the internet and start making a pile of money off of it instead of fighting it and trying kill itunes by pressuring them to have a huge price hike.
Last edited by crudman on 02-03-2006 at 12:52 AM
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