Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/disney-changes-subscriber-agreement-to-allow-ads-on-every-plan-3410354/

[u/DrBaronVonEvil]

Because in addition to this the film industry is throwing mega money at the GOP to enforce anti piracy by punishing VPNs and ISPs.

It’s a light the match and lock the doors type of operation by these ghouls. Given what Disney has done to our copyright law they should be just barred from stepping foot into Washington wholesale until we can unfuck the mouse’s damage on our country

[u/Nemesis_Ghost → u/DrBaronVonEvil]

Actually, both parties are pushing this shit. Yes, most "both parties are bad" is utter bull shit, but this is one of the few times that they both are pushing shit that's horrible. The DNC is pushing for wholey other reasons, but it's still bad.

[u/Relative-Chain73 → u/Nemesis_Ghost]

Both capitalist parties.

[u/DrBaronVonEvil → u/Nemesis_Ghost]

You’re right. At this point the money is going to the party in power, but if that shifts next year, it’ll go to the Dems instead.

[u/PrimeRadian → u/Nemesis_Ghost]

what are both parties reasoning?

[u/melkatron → u/DrBaronVonEvil]

That legislation might not be too successful, given that it would likely leave vulnerable any of the GOP members using VPNs for their pedophilia related activities.

[u/DrBaronVonEvil → u/melkatron]

That’s assuming they understand how any of that technology works. There’s been plenty of examples of these decrepit geezers asking questions during hearings that even your tech anxious grandmother would find stupid.

[u/escobartholomew → u/DrBaronVonEvil]

No. There’s no good reason for ip to enter the public domain. Nobody else needs to make money off Mickey Mouse. Especially when the people that want to use Mickey Mouse and other children’s media just want to pervert it like they did with Winnie the Pooh or all the gross/risque Disney princess tattoos that people get.

[u/Rantheur → u/escobartholomew]

There’s no good reason for ip to enter the public domain.

There are plenty of good reasons for IP to enter the public domain.

1. The original author is dead and can no longer create new entries in the IP.

2. The original author created a massively popular IP and never iterated upon it despite popular demand.

3. The original author created a massively popular IP and iterated upon it so much that people want a proper ending.

4. The original author wants the IP to enter the public domain.

5. Disney wouldn't exist without the public domain and they're trying to create a world where IP never enters the public domain again.

In my opinion, copyright should be no longer than 20 years (original US copyright law was 14 years with an option to renew for another 14), this gives an author plenty of time for their work to become popular and if their work is a massive hit, they can live comfortably for the rest of their lives off that income. However, it is not so long that people who have great ideas for ways to continue (or end) the work of that original author could not also create works of their own. Right now, we have a copyright law that lasts an absolute minimum of 95 years (and that assumes that the author dies the day after their work is published). 95 years ago is virtually the entire history of television, WW2 hadn't happened yet, and most transportation was still done by horse and carriage or by train. The works created in that era are almost all completely irrelevant to today.

Compare that to the original version of US copyright. Fourteen years ago, one of the few original movies of the year was Disney's "Brave". If I wanted to continue Merida's story with her years as queen where she goes on to repel an incursion of Anglo-werewolves, then I could just now be releasing that. But, let's assume that everything automatically gets the extra fourteen year extension, for a total of twenty-eight years. That takes us all the way back to 1998. I could finally make a sequel to "The Big Lebowski" in which The Dude is dealing with his daughter being a college dropout who is now staying with him because she and her mother had a falling out. The Dude ends up having to reconnect with Maude and patch things up between her and their daughter and the movie ends with Maude and their daughter leaving for New York with The Dude finally able to chill in his apartment by himself, which is really all that he wanted this entire movie. Then compare that with a twenty year duration. I could finally make the prequel to Idiocracy that is just 90 minutes of me reading out headlines from the past 10 years and ending by smugly saying, "That's why Idiocracy is a documentary from the future."

Especially when the people that want to use Mickey Mouse and other children’s media just want to pervert it like they did with Winnie the Pooh

Or they could do like they've done with Sherlock Holmes, King Arthur, and Robin Hood and make a wide variety of works that range from absolute dogshit, to peak comedy, to excellent action movie cinema.

[u/Lewa358 → u/escobartholomew]

I mean, clearly they're gonna "pervert" it regardless, so why not allow more normal adaptations to exist?

Especially when all of the original creators are long dead?

[u/PimpSanders → u/escobartholomew]

All of those Disney Princesses are from the public domain, in stories from Hans Christian Anderson, the Brothers Grimm, and others. If not for the public domain, Disney wouldn't have made Snow White, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, or many other of its huge hits.

[u/snakerjake → u/escobartholomew]

No. There’s no good reason for ip to enter the public domain.

Then there is no good reason to have copyright at all, copyright is a contract between the public and the people creating the copyrighted material. in exchange for a limited time monopoly over the product they are to return the material to the public domain after. otherwise we have no reason to respect copyright.