[Upd-discuss] apple movie download service

[Mashilamani Sambasivam]

apple targets movie downloads
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5339470.stm

Given the unknown motives of big corporations
(see below links), I doubt whether people should
welcome it since the internet is 
universally used and cannot differentiate the
between adults and children.

Mashi
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influence of games-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5277422.stm

hollywood sells violence to children-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/920594.stm

Clinton-ordered Federal Trade Commission Report-
Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children:
A review of self-regulation and industry practices
in the motion picture, music recording, and electronic
game industries - 
http://www.ftc.gov/reports/violence/vioreport.pdf

US movie rating system flawed-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4508483.stm
Clinton blasts Hollywood violence -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/345057.stm

The executive summary of the FTC report is a
must-read:
Quotes from the summary:
On June 1, 1999, President Clinton asked the Federal
Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to
undertake a study of whether the movie, music
recording, and computer and video game industries
market and advertise products with violent content to
youngsters. 

The President raised two specific questions: 

Do the industries promote products they themselves
acknowledge warrant parental caution in venues where
children make up a substantial percentage of the
audience?

And are these advertisements intended to attract
children and teenagers?

For all three segments of the entertainment industry,
the answers are plainly “yes.”

Although the motion picture, music recording and
electronic game industries have taken steps to
identify content that may not be appropriate for
children, companies in those industries routinely 
target children under 17 as the audience for movies,
music and games that their own rating or labeling
systems say are inappropriate for children or warrant
parental caution due to their violent content. 
Moreover, children under 17 frequently are able to buy
tickets to R-rated movies without being accompanied by
an adult and can easily purchase music recordings and
electronic games that have a parental advisory label
or are restricted to an older audience. The
practice of pervasive and aggressive marketing of
violent movies, music and electronic games to children
undermines the credibility of the industries’ ratings
and labels. 


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