Published at: 03:08 am - Saturday August 29 2009
Ordinarily, when the copyright holder notices his copyright is being infringed upon, he will start a civil case against the suspected copyright terrorist. Copyright infringement, unlike murder or the possession and distribution of child pornography, is not a crime the government itself would prosecute – the owner of the rights needs to file a complaint against the other party. The government stays out of the process, except for the justice system; bar of course in this brave new world where politicians and media moguls are BFFs.
Published at: 03:08 am - Monday August 17 2009
It won’t kill the internet (for now), as some people have claimed, but it will be yet another step in the direction of total internet control and the death of free speech online – the only place where a shred of freedom remains.
Published at: 04:08 am - Sunday August 16 2009
When the government ruins your life because of a simple database error, there is no way you will be able to claim back the money or time you lost because of it. All it takes is one government clerk’s idiocy, bad typing skills, or pressure to reach his data entry targets to ruin your life.
Published at: 12:08 am - Friday August 07 2009
In June 2008, Californian Kevin Cogill uploaded tracks from the then-upcoming Guns’n’Roses album “Chinese Democracy” onto the Antiquiet website.
When asked by the Guns’n’Roses singer’s legal team, he removed the offending files. So why exactly did he end up convicted in court (mirror) because of it?
Initially, he was charged with a felony, with the prosecution asking [...]
Published at: 05:08 pm - Saturday August 01 2009
Taking the intelligence displayed by our governments in the past few years into account, there should be no doubt they will take these pharmaceutical companies’ advice as the Unchallengeable Truth™ and act accordingly. The following 1979 news report sounds scarily familiar