Do you have any proof of what you say? "No one anywhere at anytime would ever create anything" seems a bit exaggerated, since the world is full of stuff which is freely copied, if not even copyleft. Surely, you are familiar with the Creative Commons and Free/open source software (it runs the Internet, as you surely know, and, yes, by the way it's free, and big business like IBM, Oracle and Google heavily invest on it).
Also can I point out that:
a) "anti-piracy" does not mean "no copyright" ? but we can discuss even if copyright is necessary;
b) not because one business model exists that was born in a pre-Internet era, this is now the only viable business model;
c) same thing was said when personal VCR became available: "how would you think the movie industry would survive if people can freely copy movies and see them on the telly"; experience tells us differently.
I believe there should be some sort of retribution against this sort of demands. They twist the law, abuse the difference in legal warfare that smaller entities have. The remedy should be a "frivolous claim remedy", whereby anyone who claims clearly unfounded "rights" and disrupts legitimate business is forced to pay a multiple of the legal expenses faced by the attacked party, in retribution for the mayhem caused.
These morons will be made irrelevant in the long run, their business model is simply unworkable in an era of abundance and will eventually die. Sharing and reusing is simply superior and natural, it has always been, and we had Renaissance out of it, and we had Shakespeare out of it, and we had Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn out of it. We have abundance and they desperately want scarcity. Who else want scarcity?
This reminds me ancient Romans who used barbarians to defend their borders. The problem is the damage they can do to freedom and a neutral Internet in the process. It doesn't matter if this news is a hoax, the problem is that it is plausible.
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Re: That sounds familiar...
...or just plain stupid.
Re: Anti-Piracy laws unnecessary?
Do you have any proof of what you say? "No one anywhere at anytime would ever create anything" seems a bit exaggerated, since the world is full of stuff which is freely copied, if not even copyleft. Surely, you are familiar with the Creative Commons and Free/open source software (it runs the Internet, as you surely know, and, yes, by the way it's free, and big business like IBM, Oracle and Google heavily invest on it).
Also can I point out that:
a) "anti-piracy" does not mean "no copyright" ? but we can discuss even if copyright is necessary;
b) not because one business model exists that was born in a pre-Internet era, this is now the only viable business model;
c) same thing was said when personal VCR became available: "how would you think the movie industry would survive if people can freely copy movies and see them on the telly"; experience tells us differently.
Frivolous and disturbing
I believe there should be some sort of retribution against this sort of demands. They twist the law, abuse the difference in legal warfare that smaller entities have. The remedy should be a "frivolous claim remedy", whereby anyone who claims clearly unfounded "rights" and disrupts legitimate business is forced to pay a multiple of the legal expenses faced by the attacked party, in retribution for the mayhem caused.
RIIA, MPA & al.
These morons will be made irrelevant in the long run, their business model is simply unworkable in an era of abundance and will eventually die. Sharing and reusing is simply superior and natural, it has always been, and we had Renaissance out of it, and we had Shakespeare out of it, and we had Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn out of it. We have abundance and they desperately want scarcity. Who else want scarcity? This reminds me ancient Romans who used barbarians to defend their borders. The problem is the damage they can do to freedom and a neutral Internet in the process. It doesn't matter if this news is a hoax, the problem is that it is plausible.