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By: pavlicko (pavlicko)

pavlicko (pavlicko) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:56:38 +0000

Movie-type ratings for webpages? Is your site G, PG, PG-13,R, or NC-17? http://tinyurl.com/8yd5s9

By: Mircea

Mircea — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:56:40 +0000

I read your post. But my point still stands. TV, print and radio can be regulated because the entry point it’s not so low as on the Internet.
It would cost you more to produce a newspaper (there are millions of newspapers outhere but there are hundreds of millions of websites – and newspapers are losing the battle with the Internet), to have a radio station or TV.

It would cost you several dollars to have a website (thanks to very cheap domains, hosting and free tools).

In the face of this massive scale what do you do? (nothing was like this before)
You can’t apply always the old rules (TV, print and radio are old tehnologies and mediums) so you have to invent others.

Just look at the rules RIAA and MPAA tries to apply to distributing music and movies online. They struggle to apply the same rules they have before pre-Internet era…and it seems it’s not working too well so they will have to adapt in the end.

I find it short sighted the idea of controlling the Internet down to every website/webpage. That is too much and it will put a burden on each of us and it will create another layer of beaureaucracy.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:23:59 +0000

You are missing my point completely. First of all, please read my post. There are tens of thousands of publications in the world producing millions of pages of text. If radio frequencies would be unregulated there would be several million more radio “stations”, the same goes with television.

We have highly pre-consumption regulated mediums (tv, print and radio) and nearly non- or loosely pre-consumption regulated media (internet). My point is, why do we have this? Should they all be equally regulated or non-regulated?

Thus, should we get rid of the guidance ratings in television and movies? Should we apply similar copyright regulations to newspapers as there are on internet sites/services?

I find it rather short sighted that we always see our industry so much different that rules which applies to others cannot apply to us.

By: Mircea

Mircea — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:13:40 +0000

How it’s different?
Just think about THE SCALE!

How many movies are produced every year? Several hundreds, maybe several thousands? How many people do you need to look at them?

How many websites are produced every year? There will be 200 million websites by 2010 (Jakob Nielsen). How many people you need to police/rate these websites??

Why do you think Google is successful (automated search) and human-powered searh is not?

By: ZeeDotMe (Zee)

ZeeDotMe (Zee) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:37:33 +0000

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By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:05:46 +0000

But perhaps the procedures are strict due to the legislation? One can create music and books as easily as web sites. At least if we consider the suggested regulations to occur only on commercial sites (in which case one could as easily create television, newspapers etc.).

On private web sites as well as on private pamphlets any regulation is very difficult to enforce.

The millions of newspapers articles that are published each year have thousands of people responsible for their content. I am not convinced this couldn’t be done on internet as well. Of course, this would mean that we would actually have to start paying for the content we consume but that may be inevitable.

By: Zee M Kane

Zee M Kane — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:21:38 +0000

The main difference is that anyone can create their own website in a matter of minutes and it’s available for the world to see…With movies, television, newspapers, music, books – there’s a pretty strict procedure before any of the above can be accessed by anyone. Trying to impose the same procedure on websites would be a mountain far too high for any organisation to climb.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:09:51 +0000

But how is this different in other mediums? Should there not be any regulations in the movie, television, newspaper, music etc. industries also? I am not saying that I agree with Andy Burnham but shouldn’t the same rules apply to all producers?

By: Steven Carroll NSFW

Steven Carroll NSFW — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:06:38 +0000

It never ceases to amaze me the idiotic nature of politicians (did they ever do anything in the real world?) not least ‘who the fuck do they think they fucking are?’.

By: ZeeDotMe (Zee)

ZeeDotMe (Zee) — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:04:50 +0000

This website is rated PG. Parental Guidance is Advised…http://bit.ly/12vLm