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ASU2003 · 07-28-2010, 09:22 AM

If the recording industry would have worked with Apple back in the mid 90s to create an iTunes like marketplace, less movie piracy through torrent sites, a way for San Bernardino porn makers to actually sell porn on-line instead of having most of it for free, and no more 'Hollywood' accounting where multi-million dollar movies lose money... Would California still be facing the budget problems it has?

I'm not saying that it would be a good thing to live in a DRM world where Apple & Microsoft would have controlled the distribution of media files, but it seems like there is a lot of money that should have been made, and taxed accordingly. I know that I would have spent a few thousand dollars over the past decade on those types of files.

07-28-2010, 09:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
ASU2003 immoral minority Location: Back in Ohio	Are California's financial problems due to piracy? If the recording industry would have worked with Apple back in the mid 90s to create an iTunes like marketplace, less movie piracy through torrent sites, a way for San Bernardino porn makers to actually sell porn on-line instead of having most of it for free, and no more 'Hollywood' accounting where multi-million dollar movies lose money... Would California still be facing the budget problems it has? I'm not saying that it would be a good thing to live in a DRM world where Apple & Microsoft would have controlled the distribution of media files, but it seems like there is a lot of money that should have been made, and taxed accordingly. I know that I would have spent a few thousand dollars over the past decade on those types of files.