Thoughts on the New Anti-Piracy Law?!
Question: Thoughts on the New Anti-Piracy Law!?
Well, earlier in the week, Fearless Leader signed into law a very tough sanction package aimed at counterfeit merchandise and P2P downloading!.!.!.much to the joy of RIAA and the Motion Picture Lobby!. It seems that the new law is going to be seriously enforced!.!.!.and with severe penalties!. How will this change your attitude about P2P and file sharing in general!.
For me!.!.!.let's just say uTorrent is no longer on any of my computers!.!.!.and all of my fansubs (which are legit because they are for unlicensed work only) are on removable 1Tb HDDs!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
For me!.!.!.let's just say uTorrent is no longer on any of my computers!.!.!.and all of my fansubs (which are legit because they are for unlicensed work only) are on removable 1Tb HDDs!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
It doesn't change my attitude at all, which was very cynical!. Copyright and Patent Law were explicitly intended to promote publication by providing protections!. And there have been studies suggesting that a substantial portion of the drop in music sales comes from people who stop listening to music and instead go to user-generated content on the Internet for their entertainment!. Why do they stop listening to music!? Because mix tapes, and so forth, which were certainly our prerogative in the sixties and seventies, are now called piracy!. We can't own music any more so we aren't listening to it!.
As a Linux user, I am especially upset about all this -- it is nonsense!. Why!? What is a torrent!. I'm going to link to a couple which are very relevant to me:
http://releases!.ubuntu!.com/8!.04/ubuntu-8!.!.!.
http://torrent!.fedoraproject!.org/torrent!.!.!.
http://www!.slackware!.com/torrents/slackw!.!.!.
http://publiclibrary!.metamute!.org:6969/t!.!.!.
That's right, most distributions and even some of the biggest, use torrents to distribute themselves, as a more economical alternative!. In fact, this was the original use for torrents -- not necessarily linux but techie stuff!. The law is a disaster which provides many ways for unscrupulous people to net us into their get-rich-quick schemes because it was written at the behest of unscrupulous people who want the government to protect them from the effects of their own actions in a free market!.
Vote Obama and lobby him!. Is he a good choice!? No, but he is better than the alternative and with the organizing going on I do believe he is likely to listen eventually!.
Oh, and though I've used this in writing this, I've decided this is too techie to be a source, but check out:
http://www!.groklaw!.net anyhow!.
Www@Enter-QA@Com
As a Linux user, I am especially upset about all this -- it is nonsense!. Why!? What is a torrent!. I'm going to link to a couple which are very relevant to me:
http://releases!.ubuntu!.com/8!.04/ubuntu-8!.!.!.
http://torrent!.fedoraproject!.org/torrent!.!.!.
http://www!.slackware!.com/torrents/slackw!.!.!.
http://publiclibrary!.metamute!.org:6969/t!.!.!.
That's right, most distributions and even some of the biggest, use torrents to distribute themselves, as a more economical alternative!. In fact, this was the original use for torrents -- not necessarily linux but techie stuff!. The law is a disaster which provides many ways for unscrupulous people to net us into their get-rich-quick schemes because it was written at the behest of unscrupulous people who want the government to protect them from the effects of their own actions in a free market!.
Vote Obama and lobby him!. Is he a good choice!? No, but he is better than the alternative and with the organizing going on I do believe he is likely to listen eventually!.
Oh, and though I've used this in writing this, I've decided this is too techie to be a source, but check out:
http://www!.groklaw!.net anyhow!.
Www@Enter-QA@Com