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the U.N. is as irrelevant as the record companies... just ask anyone in iraq... hahaHiggzBozon wrote:Since two weeks back, i hear more and more rumors about how the U.N. is discussing a new law for internet use at the moment.
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the UN has been involved with piracy for years, but as with anything globally related, it takes decades for the planet to agree on something this huge. i've been following it in a limited way. here are some links if it interests you. until the world can come to agreement on a universal international copyright law, going further than what the Berne Convention achieved, then piracy will never stop.HiggzBozon wrote: Since two weeks back, i hear more and more rumors about how the U.N. is discussing a new law for internet use at the moment. If this law comes true,
internet will be sold in packages to everyone.
word.It is common to argue that intellectual property in the form of copyright and patent is necessary for the innovation and creation of ideas and inventions such as machines, drugs, computer software, books, music, literature and movies. In fact intellectual property is a government grant of a costly and dangerous private monopoly over ideas. We show through theory and example that intellectual monopoly is not necessary for innovation and as a practical matter is damaging to growth, prosperity and liberty.
Caeraphym wrote:I read an article a few weeks ago saying that bands are making more money now through ticket sales and merchandise sold at gigs than ever before, so much so that they've even stopped selling CDs at gigs because they carry less profit than the ubiquitous T-Shirt. This I can only see as a good thing because a) they are having to do what musicians do and make music, live preferably (DJs/Producers included), to make a living, b) they're making money which isn't being raped by greedy, bloated, fish lipped, record company CEOs off the back of record sales, and c) there is far more chance of seeing artists you would like to see actually performing live infront of you for a nominal fee(Madonna/U2 et al not included).
As I understand it if ticket and t-shirt sales are to be the keepsake of modern music, and if record comanies failed to keep up with the internet for over 10 years, or the demands for lower priced CDs for even longer than that, maybe they wouldn't be having to claw their copyrights through foreign courts on dubious charges resulting in token prison sentences. Record companies made their money, squandered it, wallowed in piles of cocaine and yes men, and now realise the party has moved on. It stinks.
i like this point. if it weren't for piracy, i wouldn't be buying all these things i pirate. i just wouldn't have anything.Brisance wrote:I used to download a lot of movies, if I couldn't I wouldn't go to the cinema either(ubless it was a really good movie, which I would go see even if I could download it)
what does post count have to do with it?Jedison wrote:I don't have many posts though, so I probably don't know how things work.