The government can make a counter threat. The government can threaten to do two things, both of which would be good for everyone, except monopolistic, lazy gatekeepers:
1. Make net neutrality the law 2. Open the markets to competition, no more monopolies, so that everyone will get fast internet at the best prices where the providers can still make a profit
The real problem is that monopoly providers simply do not know how to operate as a real business and compete. They couldn't compete their way out of a paper bag. Witness what happened in the early '80's when long distance was opened to other players: lower prices, more choices, and better quality. It was good for everyone, except AT&T's over priced monopoly.
(oh wait, I forgot to write something cynical or sarcastic here.)
How about a ten year jail time, like the UK has for copyright infringement?
And . . . during their time in jail, copyfraud DMCA filers are required to listen to all RIAA music that doesn't sell, and all MPAA movies that don't sell.
Since no artists were involved in the lack of sales, and consequent drop in culture, no artists need to get paid. The culture tax can go into a fund for starving record and motion picture company executives.
The culture tax needs to be adjusted for their cost of living. We simply can't have them in a cardboard box on the street eating caviar and smoking cigars lit by $100 bills.
No artists were harmed in the making of the lack of culture.
Re: "Oh that's just for the worst of the worst..."
A ten year sentence for copyright infringement is GUARANTEED to get misused. It's a handy-dandy catch all. Like CFAA.
You want to nail someone for something, well because! They might have spoken harshly to a government agent.
"Even though we couldn't nail you with any actual crime, we did an intensive investigation onto every single computing device in your life, and we managed to find one song which you don't seem to have a license for. And the penalty for that is good enough for what we really wanted to get you for, but couldn't find any actual evidence that you are guilty of."
I don't think he makes that much any more. He works for Sony, a major copyright holder. That $320,000 number is out of date. By now, he and all other lawyers and executives have drastically cut their salaries so that actual artists can get some money. And when you understand how everyone in the motion picture industry is so deeply filled with humility, he and other lawyers and execs don't want anyone to know just how little money they make today, and so they would like to to (mis)use the police state apparatus to censor that information. Nothing to see here.
It's not just punitive. It's about getting everyone to respect copyright.
Ten Year jail sentences would really get people to start respecting copyright. If the sentences were increased to several decades of one's life for downloading that song, then I could see how the public's respect for copyright would grow into a deep admiration and even adoration for copyright.
Now if these jail sentences could come with the lack of any due process that usually goes hand in hand with copyright, then I think this will seriously improve the respect everyone has for copyright.
And warden's, guards, and corporate prison executives need to get paid! Jails need to be kept at full capacity for maximum profitability.
Copyright is a useful tool towards that end. Especially if you don't need real evidence. And ESPECIALLY if you don't need due process.
Copyright should be the pre-eminent concern of our world today. If we can just strengthen copyright with an automated takedown and drive-thru trial on the way to jail, then the solutions to all of the other problems the world faces would simply fall into place and everything would be a paradise.
If 10 year sentences don't put a stop to piracy, then try 100 year sentences. If that doesn't work, try 200 year sentences. Similarly, if raising the age for smoking cigarettes to 21 doesn't stop teen smoking, then raise the age to 25. If that doesn't stop teen smoking then raise the legal age to 30. Etc.
It may be a bit different today, but not for long.
That's why we now have IoT. The Internet of Things you no longer own.
It works like this: put a computer into every single item that a human being could formerly own -- and poof! -- like magic everything has been transformed into something that you really don't own anymore.
Oh, sorry. The servers for your light bulbs are being discontinued. There will be no more updates for your toaster, but you can buy a new one for 10 % off! Your TV is no longer working on Comcast? Buy a new TV that has support for the new Comcast APIs and protocols. Your car cannot start because you have not performed all of the necessary maintenance from an authorized technician. Please have it towed to an authorized technician to receive the proper servicing. Your home security system is unable to let you in until you renew the annual license. Your sprinkler system needs an updated authorization certificate from your local municipal water system.
Apple is just the tip of the submerged frozen glacial mass.
Forget the secret free sex. How about secret standards.
We could have the National Bureau(cracy) of Secret Standards. Secret weights and measures.
The government needs to get into this secrecy thing. Because terrorists. And pirates.
Secret weather forecasts. Secret USGS data. Secret maps. Secret locations of all government offices. (You just try to find your local DMV - ha ha - I dare you) Secret government publications Secret press conferences Secret identities of all appointed officials And that leads to . . . secret identities of all elected officials.
If voting ballots already are secret ballots, then the candidates can be secret too.
Please vote for one: [x] Candidate A (secret political affiliation) [_] Candidate B (secret political affiliation) [_] Candidate C (secret independent political party) [_] Any of the above [_] All of the above
As my first official act, everything in the Library of Congress is now classified as a secret for national security reasons.
This is why some rich people, even up to presidential candidates, like to have immigrant wives. As in all things, they get immigrants to do a job that no American is willing to do.
Maybe the Senate should be asking a different government branch to stop Tor users who happen to be bad people?
(_) FBI? (_) DOD? (_) CIA? (*) NSA? (_) All of the above (_) None of the above (_) Two of the above get into a jurisdiction pissing match (_) Call up the Internet (listed in the phone book under "google")
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1. Make net neutrality the law
2. Open the markets to competition, no more monopolies, so that everyone will get fast internet at the best prices where the providers can still make a profit
The real problem is that monopoly providers simply do not know how to operate as a real business and compete. They couldn't compete their way out of a paper bag. Witness what happened in the early '80's when long distance was opened to other players: lower prices, more choices, and better quality. It was good for everyone, except AT&T's over priced monopoly.
(oh wait, I forgot to write something cynical or sarcastic here.)
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A way to end DMCA abuse
And . . . during their time in jail, copyfraud DMCA filers are required to listen to all RIAA music that doesn't sell, and all MPAA movies that don't sell.
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Who could believe that a copyright law would ever be abused? (*cough* DMCA *cough*)
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Re: Re:
Since no artists were involved in the lack of sales, and consequent drop in culture, no artists need to get paid. The culture tax can go into a fund for starving record and motion picture company executives.
The culture tax needs to be adjusted for their cost of living. We simply can't have them in a cardboard box on the street eating caviar and smoking cigars lit by $100 bills.
No artists were harmed in the making of the lack of culture.
On the post: As UK Piracy Falls To Record Lows, Government Still Wants To Put Pirates In Jail For 10 Years
Re: "Oh that's just for the worst of the worst..."
You want to nail someone for something, well because! They might have spoken harshly to a government agent.
"Even though we couldn't nail you with any actual crime, we did an intensive investigation onto every single computing device in your life, and we managed to find one song which you don't seem to have a license for. And the penalty for that is good enough for what we really wanted to get you for, but couldn't find any actual evidence that you are guilty of."
On the post: Sony Pictures Legal Affairs VP Files Bogus DMCA Notice Because His Salary Is Listed On Wikileaks
Re: Daniel Yankelevits makes $320,000/yr!
On the post: As UK Piracy Falls To Record Lows, Government Still Wants To Put Pirates In Jail For 10 Years
Re: Punitive
Ten Year jail sentences would really get people to start respecting copyright. If the sentences were increased to several decades of one's life for downloading that song, then I could see how the public's respect for copyright would grow into a deep admiration and even adoration for copyright.
Now if these jail sentences could come with the lack of any due process that usually goes hand in hand with copyright, then I think this will seriously improve the respect everyone has for copyright.
On the post: As UK Piracy Falls To Record Lows, Government Still Wants To Put Pirates In Jail For 10 Years
But Artists Need To Get Paid !
Copyright is a useful tool towards that end. Especially if you don't need real evidence. And ESPECIALLY if you don't need due process.
Copyright should be the pre-eminent concern of our world today. If we can just strengthen copyright with an automated takedown and drive-thru trial on the way to jail, then the solutions to all of the other problems the world faces would simply fall into place and everything would be a paradise.
If 10 year sentences don't put a stop to piracy, then try 100 year sentences. If that doesn't work, try 200 year sentences. Similarly, if raising the age for smoking cigarettes to 21 doesn't stop teen smoking, then raise the age to 25. If that doesn't stop teen smoking then raise the legal age to 30. Etc.
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Re: Re: Apple and Microsoft
That's why we now have IoT. The Internet of Things you no longer own.
It works like this: put a computer into every single item that a human being could formerly own -- and poof! -- like magic everything has been transformed into something that you really don't own anymore.
Oh, sorry. The servers for your light bulbs are being discontinued. There will be no more updates for your toaster, but you can buy a new one for 10 % off! Your TV is no longer working on Comcast? Buy a new TV that has support for the new Comcast APIs and protocols. Your car cannot start because you have not performed all of the necessary maintenance from an authorized technician. Please have it towed to an authorized technician to receive the proper servicing. Your home security system is unable to let you in until you renew the annual license. Your sprinkler system needs an updated authorization certificate from your local municipal water system.
Apple is just the tip of the submerged frozen glacial mass.
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Re: Sounds Like time for a new law
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Re: Re: Not enough secrets
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Re: Re: Why pick on the State Department?
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Re: Re: Why pick on the State Department?
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Re: Not enough secrets
On the post: Standards Body Whines That People Who Want Free Access To The Law Probably Also Want 'Free Sex'
Not enough secrets
Forget the secret free sex. How about secret standards.
We could have the National Bureau(cracy) of Secret Standards. Secret weights and measures.
The government needs to get into this secrecy thing. Because terrorists. And pirates.
Secret weather forecasts.
Secret USGS data.
Secret maps.
Secret locations of all government offices. (You just try to find your local DMV - ha ha - I dare you)
Secret government publications
Secret press conferences
Secret identities of all appointed officials
And that leads to . . . secret identities of all elected officials.
If voting ballots already are secret ballots, then the candidates can be secret too.
Please vote for one:
[x] Candidate A (secret political affiliation)
[_] Candidate B (secret political affiliation)
[_] Candidate C (secret independent political party)
[_] Any of the above
[_] All of the above
As my first official act, everything in the Library of Congress is now classified as a secret for national security reasons.
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Re: Re: Re:
On the post: Standards Body Whines That People Who Want Free Access To The Law Probably Also Want 'Free Sex'
Re: Re:
On the post: Standards Body Whines That People Who Want Free Access To The Law Probably Also Want 'Free Sex'
Re:
On the post: Senate Funding Bill For State Dept. Asks It To Figure Out Ways To Stop Bad People From Using Tor
Why pick on the State Department?
(_) FBI?
(_) DOD?
(_) CIA?
(*) NSA?
(_) All of the above
(_) None of the above
(_) Two of the above get into a jurisdiction pissing match
(_) Call up the Internet (listed in the phone book under "google")
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Re:
A new government test will be created that analyzes the color of one's skin.
(Sarcasm tag goes here. But I'm temporarily out due to frequent use.)
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