Published at: 04:11 am - Sunday November 29 2009
The industry’s insistence to keep to their old ways of business is suicide, and apparently it’s clear to everyone but them. They desperately use any law they can find to scare people into their way of thinking, just so they can keep up their disgustingly high profits (of which, of course, the artist sees very little).
The industry needs to modernise and stop their ridiculous lies for their own good. That’s the theory, anyway: lucky for them they’re good friends with our politicians, and can get their own laws passed, as opposed to laws that would benefit both the people and the artist.
Published at: 12:11 am - Sunday November 29 2009
After all, matching DNA found at a crime scene to a suspect’s retained DNA profile solves any crime within a day or so (at least according to your favourite CSI spin-off).
However, DNA isn’t as infallible as Anthony E. Zuiker or the government want us to believe – and databases full of DNA profiles definitely aren’t.
Published at: 12:11 am - Thursday November 12 2009
Secret talks between governments? Surely, there’s another invasion on the books? Maybe one of them came up with a great plan to end all of the world’s suffering? No, they’re talking about changing and implementing international copyright law.
The discussions have a broad scope: our nations’ Wisest Men will be chatting away about anything from counterfeiting [...]
Published at: 02:09 am - Thursday September 17 2009
This new law will greatly accommodate the government's friends in the so-called creative industries. Surely, their sales will go up. Oh, wait, they won't – because "pirates" buy more music than anyone else (mirror). But they won't be buying it from prison, or when they're trying to pay off a €300,000 fine.
That is, of course, assuming that they're at all guilty. Which, as the geekier ones among us know, can never be proven beyond doubt with a simple IP address. Ever.
Published at: 02:09 am - Thursday September 10 2009
… mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases, as Theodor Billroth said. The latter definitely applies to the vomit spewed forth by the music industry claiming they lose ever so much well-deserved cash because of all those evil, Satan-worshipping “pirates”.
In May 2009, “illegal downloads” were blamed for billions [...]
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 [...]