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Abuse of Whose Power

Filed in archive Commentary , Fun by Marc on July 28, 2006

Abuse of Whose Power
A nice piece of activism comes from YouWouldnt.net, which features a video that is a parody of an MPAA propaganda piece called Abuse of Power.

The web site says:

Would you start a war? Loot a pension fund? Circumvent the Constitution? Monopolize the media? Unless you are a government official or a corporate executive, chances are, YOU WOULDN'T!


All around us we see war and environmental destruction, eroding Civil Rightslinks and obscene profits. No wonder media corporations and their lobbyists want to control what you can say and do with media. The MPAA's latest video against file-sharing could have been just another insult to our collective intelligence, but putting it at the beginning of hundreds of thousands of DVDs and making it impossible to skip was going too far!



There is a great line in the FAQ:
Q: Who funded this project?
A: Are you kidding - who would fund such a thing? The video cost about $65, including the font, a few sandwiches and a domain name - we lose that much in an hour at the dog track. I'm sure it could have been done better, but it couldn't have been done any cheaper.






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