I was surprised. Were you surprised?

Is the obvious tag still sleeping?

SilentStrider: I was surprised. Were you surprised?

Uummm, NO.

I am suprised indeed that some light picked this turkey out before passage. Those 1%ers have "given" a LOT of money to lawgivers.

I can't even get the page to load. Did Hollywood block it?

Since the link is pretty farked and it's not scaled properly, I rehosted it here: SOPA Infographic

Rihlsul: And rehosted, scaled a bit, as well:

Link (new window)

Be careful, the MPAA will get that site shut down for your use of their proprietary copyrighted statistics.

enry: Can the options for an image be something other than unreadable or massive? I have a 22" monitor and the the entire thing was tiny (even if I expanded the browser window). Wasn't until I finally got to the image itself (again in the browser window) and discovered it was 15,000x40,000, meaning the text was now the equivalent of 1500pt.

Good content though.

Yeah, it took at least 3 minutes for the graphic to load, then when it did, it was the worst infographic I've seen, not informative at all, and pretty vague. Everyone else can figure out when the first VCR was released, or when cable first started, yet this one just says the "1950's", or the "1980's". Then you have the statement about how the film industry "only" releases on 35mm, and "only" distributes to theaters. There HAVE been other options, but they are expensive and require specialized equipment. As for only distributing to theaters, that's a 2-part issue; 1. FIlm projectors are expensive as Hell and take up a huge footprint, and: 2. Theaters don't 'own' the film, they borrow it and send it back when they are done. How many reels would they have lost forever if Joe Sixpack was able to leave them lying around his house?

All in all, this infographic was about as useless as tits on a fish, and about as accurate as a blind quadriplegic throwing darts after a 3 day bender... Hell, they even got the cable TV thing wrong, since 1948 is not now, nor has ever been, in the "1950's".

You know a form of mass media will last when a market for porn grows up around it.

KrispyKritter: Fireproof: Although I could be wrong, I'm pretty sure that cable TV began in the late 70s/early 80s and not in the 50s, which is what the graphic says.

Cable television - formerly known as Community Antenna Television or CATV was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania in the late 1940s. (inventors.about.com)

Arguable. Ed Parsons' setup in Astoria, OR was first set up in 1948, so he has a claim that rivals John Walson's Mahanoy City, PA system. Walston should probably have priority for conceiving of the system as a community service (Parsons originally just ran a cable to his own apartment and didn't think of expanding it until neighbors requested it).

Fireproof: Although I could be wrong, I'm pretty sure that cable TV began in the late 70s/early 80s and not in the 50s, which is what the graphic says.

I remember ads at the Drive-in Movies from the early 50's. A monster in yer living room sucking money for pay TV.
classic classless chit

DjangoStonereaver: You know a form of mass media will last when a market for porn grows up around it.

Porn has driven every technological advancement in mud, ink, paint, carving, sculpting, printing, tintype, photo,,, Get it?

DjangoStonereaver: You know a form of mass media will last when a market for porn grows up around it.

this is in fact, true.