Thursday 21 April 2011

21/04/2011

Today I want to talk about the new powers governments are giving to ISP's to police pirating. I am not sure what the laws are like in the U.S. at the moment but I have recently seen that in Britain and my own country that the government is changing the copyright laws.

In my country internet users who download pirated materials get three warnings and then their internet will be disconnected and a $15000 fine will be issued. I assume that the whole operation will be funded by the tax payer and the revenue from the fines. The thing i don't understand about this is why should the tax payer should constantly have to fund the Movie/Music industry war on piracy. The internet pirates will only find a way to get around the new traffic monitoring, so millions of our hard earn dollars are going to end up being wasted.

Britain's law was slightly different. I read that the government wanted ISP's to cover 25% of the cost of monitoring internet users. That only means price increases to internet users to cover this new cost.

All these new laws are doing is wasting money. The only way to take out internet piracy is at the source. The up-loaders. The only problem with this is that they are in countries where they have no laws against piracy or the government just doesn't care.

So my thoughts are on all this is that the Movie/Music industry should just give up. So what if you lose a few million, you still make billions a year and it will mean that we don't end up paying millions enforcing your copyright. Besides if people really like what they are watching the will go out and buy it.

20 comments:

  1. pirating.. thinking logically, if you have only 2000 songs, which, in a collection isnt all that much, it would cost you 2000$ on i tunes, what the hell do they expect!

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  2. good thing my country doesn't really care about pirating, only some companies decides to be anal, but that was years ago

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  3. I do agree. but... the poor folk.. herm me... herm ... cant afford to buy all the stuff they like. sooooooo.... kinda makes sense to have laws against it. but why dont they treat the laws like weed laws... only inforce when sombodys being a jerk. just somthing to stick them with.

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  4. i agree, pirates will always win, it's like trying to censor the internet, you cant do it

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  5. Well, I think pirates will win (:

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  6. They can try all the want but they'll never fully win against pirates. People like free stuff too much

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  7. Pirates aren't stealing anything, because they wouldn't have gone and watched the film in the cinema had it not been free.

    just started following! you. hit me back up bro

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  8. The internet is so open, i don't think any government will ever effectively stop pirating

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  9. the pirates Will be always ther

    :(

    following

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  10. The changes are in progress already with smaller labels. At some point majors will have to adapt as well.

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  11. there will always be pirates!

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  12. I think the model needs to change, sites like netflix are making money and proving people will pay for downloadable content. The Industries should pour the money they waste chasing piracy(which will always adapt and change) to designing new systems for distribution. Accept the changes to the industry and move on. Loving this blog mate.

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  13. ya, pirating is a problem, that would be hard to deal with, because of all of the hackers and stuff, but it is a great way to get free stuff. And no one wants to pay thousands of dollars for music when you can get it for free

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  14. They can try do what they like but they will never stop VPN type file transfers. You cant really filter the internet, there are means and ways to overcome this.
    Binaries are still going strong.

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  15. Enjoyable Blog.
    Following :D

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  16. I have to agree. It seems like a government policy that is enforcing a private busniesses wishes. Seems a little shady to me

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  17. The real solution should be on the music/video industry to realize they are still too expensive for the avearge user.

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  18. Whatever they do, I like the fact of giving warnings. A few years ago a women was charged a fine of I cant exactly remember how much, but at least in the thousands, for downloading like 3 songs. It was a huge debate because it was like they were using her to make an example.

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