UCLA professors have been posting videos on their class websites. These websites only work on-campus. You can't view the videos anywhere else in the world.
But that's not good enough for movie producers. So now they have to take all the videos down.
OK, you say, but if they were stealing these videos then they should stop and pay for them. The problem is that these videos are clearly fair use - they're allowed to show them in their classrooms completely legally. But the media producers want us to stay in the 1980s and not use new technology.
They're going to lose eventually - progress has a way of always happening. (It's not always good, but if poor people are going to get dioxin poisoning and asbestos, it's only fair for record companies to get screwed by the internet.) It's a shame they're going to spend millions fighting change, lashing out and ruining lives in their death throes instead of working on being creative and inventing new ways to make it easy to buy their music.
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