The Consumer Electronics Association discharge back at the content industry , publishing aprint adin a Washington newspaper that rip into the RIAA and MPAA for concern mongering and spreading disinformation . The CEA is trying to persuade congresspeople to oppose legislation that restrain artificial satellite radio . The group convincingly makes its case by tapping the history books , finding quotes from the past that also engaged in stimulate up a little fright , precariousness and doubt ( FUD ) , and flex out to be absolutely wrong :
“ I forsee a marked deterioration in American music … and a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations , by virtue — or rather by vice — of the propagation of the various music - reproducing machines … ” -John Philip Sousa on the Player Piano ( 1906 )
“ The public will not buy songs that it can try almost at will by a abbreviated manipulation of the radio dial . ” -Record Label Executive on FM Radio ( 1925 )
More after the leap .
“ But now we are face with a new and very troubling assault on our fiscal security , on our very economic life and we are facing it from a affair called the videocassette recorder . ” -MPAA on the VCR ( 1982 )
“ When the manufacturers hand the world a license to show at plate … not only will the ballad maker tie a noose around his cervix , not only will there be no more record to tape [ but ] the innocuous public will be made an accessory to the destruction of four industries . ” -ASCAP on the Cassette Tape ( 1982 ) .
I ’ll add one more : “ What is past is prologue . ” -William Shakespeare
Consumer Electronics Association criticizes content industry fear - mongering[ars technica ]
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