Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012 - 3:57 p.m.
World Copyright Law
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Filesharing giant megaupload went down this week. Every one of my friends is on the pirates side, because they steal music and movies as easily as making a sandwich.
I am glad they got busted and shut down because I don't like piracy. I survive by leasing out the rights to my original creations, and I have zero time for pirates who steal my work or anybody elses work even if, as they say, they didn't do it for the money.. that's not my problem if they are idiots and do idiotic things for free- they deserved to be shot down. If I was allowed to I'd shoot them down myself.
It's very easy- if you use art that isn't your own for any reason -it is somebody elses art and you stole it.
If they object to your version of sharing then you have definately stolen it and the consequences for stealing are pretty harsh.
Its better we meet in my studio like civilized people to work this out than in a dark alley to thrash it out like beasts.
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** I see its a complicated issue
-what has been set into law
-what was about to be set into law
-and what recently pulled off the table before being set into law
are all swirled up in the reporting
I understand that there are a mixed bag of responses from the public
-they fear this is leading towards greater internet censorship
-they fear the links they have become accustomed to that are file sharing
links will disappear and the level of service they have become accustomed
to will disappear of exist in a chill
- they are not concerned with larger impact of counterfeit goods, watches,
CDs, clothes, shoes, medicines, etc as they are usually cheaper for them
to buy
- the demands placed upon IP hosting file sharing websites to deny
service when requested by a third party inconveniences t6he public who
have become accustomed to this level of service
- the public paid little attention to the Millenium Copyright act that has
already been signed by many nations some years ago- Canada the USA and
Europe.. the recent upgrade was to address file-sharing offenses and
create an international law where that service would not just migrate to
safer jurisdictions.. the idea was to make that world law so file sharing
opps had no safe jurisdiction to operate out of. That hit hard this week
when Megaupload was taken down by proper legal order and their website
seized the principles imprisoned and their offices raided=
I laughed and called the CEO fatso and drew rude cartoons to that effect.
I am aware there is more to the intent and scope of the law than small
time pirates being busted.. its an orchestrated attempt to thwart the
concept of file sharing and either stop or greatly reduce its
effectiveness. That direction is driven by lobbyists from the legal owners
of movies, songs and other intellectual properties. They are for the most
part from powerful organized international film and music distributors
I have yet to see evidence that these lobbists have received special
favour by government or have broken any laws in their lobbying efforts,
The altie press delights in projecting 666 like loss of freedom
scenarios and paints a takeover of the world by better organized and
funded groups who are using (c) legislation to strong arm culture and
therefore reality. They have urged * encouraged the Anons to wreck havoc
on the websites of groups that they feel are about to succeed in enacting
legal cutting off of the flow of unauthorized internet accessible media by
mass crashing into govt and culture industry websites world wide causing
considerable damage.
We can all only guess what will happen next ... but it is my guess that
the culture industries and the governments responsible for safeguarding
the integrity of the marketplace have learned a great deal about the
machinations of the Anons and their supporters and have made preparations
for their decisive counterpunch. The (c) holders and the police charged
with enforcing the law will not surrender to the demands of the pirates
and a compromise is unlikely.
What I believe is more likely is some shows of strength and global
determination to break up pirate networks already well entrenched, and
sway down hard any any new ones popping up by arresting and imprisoning
the offenders. The expectations of the Piratanical( TM ) public to
receive future unauthorized access to (C) material will be seriously
diminished.
Their world view that whatever they can get they should get and deserve
to get will be altered forever. The dynamics of the struggle between (c)
holders and the pirates just changed- and the shock is the pirates have
been pinned down to the matt and will have to either surrender or be
strangled.
This is not a game even if they treat it as a game.
If this is what precipitates civil war, then OK - bring it on
better to fight than surrender
as the anons and pirates have no leadership to negotiate with
then the individual players will be picked off
This warmup action to me resembles the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s
and how the original resistance was eventually overpowered by a determined
counter force that could count on outside help and unlimited resources to
push the resistance back. It got nasty and the struggle escalated- But in
the end , the resistance did not prevail.
