Sorry, Americans, but I sincerely hope the US will lose its power and more sane governments will arise. I'm seriously losing hope that the US will turn around :(
True, but at least then users/filesharers won't be criminals anymore.
They could of course use the money to create the biggest, fastest, best music database that has ever existed, so that people will use that instead of filesharing networks, and then it will be much easier to track who gets what piece of the pie.
They should have done that years ago, instead of letting the negotiations with Napster fail and then suing them into bankruptcy.
"I am guessing you live in europe. How does a taxing society and giving the money to a group of individuals who never pay the artists benifit society?"
That's why it should be frozen.
However, I also think copyright should be heavily reformed, as well as the horrible licensing systems.
"As to the "you must be a criminal" taxes. Well you are. You are breaking the law."
No I am not. If I have never downloaded anything from illegal sources at any point in my life, it wouldn't be fair to tax the storage devices I'm going to buy.
Anyway, personally I don't think the tax is that unfair. It's a reasonable part of a bigger solution. The government is always going to subsidize stuff that you will never need or make use of, but the tax and subsidies exist so that society as a whole can profit from it.
However, when it comes to this tax, I do not think the music industry deserves it, since they have failed to provide a good amount of reasonable alternatives in the last years and basically have failed to innovate.
So pay-outs of this money should be frozen, until they do. Or should only be given out after guarantees have been given that the money will be used to develop better alternatives within a certain time-frame.
"Of course, the reality, again, is that it's because down the road, when everyone's forgotten the promises that ACTA won't change anyone's laws, the lobbyists will step in and do the whole "international obligations" bit."
Taken from the Dutch Pirate Party list: "There have been some loose discussions about the technology on the PPI list, but for Ernesto @ Torrentfreak to assume that there would be such plans without confirming his sources is not what I would call professional journalism."
Yeah, he could turn the volume of the horns down a bit, so that we can hear his vocals better. This is what made his previous tunes so great; they were easy to understand and it's the content matter that matters.
This might be bad news for those Greek guys who uploaded offensive videos of Attatürk, founder of Turkey. Turkey has asked Google to identify them, so that they can act if they were to enter Turkey. Turkey has pretty harsh punishments for anti-Turkish acts, such as insulting the founding father of modern Turkey.
Sadly, this guy gets into the newspapers a lot and journalists hardly ever question his claim. He's driving public opinion in this way and we're the one percent that has to prove to the rest that this guy is wrong.
As for the EU legislation thing... I'm starting to see such claims more often. Stuff like 'EU standards', etc. but what those who use it actually mean is the French standards. The more countries introduce crazy three strike measures, the easier it will be for the industry to pull other countries into it too.
I think the British Pirate Party will happily use the promotion. It's nice when people give attention to their most vocal (though relatively unknown) opponents... especially when they don't even have to :-)
I had the same when I tried to contact the help desk of the "OV Chipkaart" - a card which is going to ultimately replace all public transport tickets in the near future in The Netherlands. They're using students with free travel cards as guinea pigs and when things weren't working out, I tried contacting them, but they said they were to busy. Massive fail. ^_^
According to Anti-Mike's logic, we shouldn't even to be allowed about anything that has ever been copyrighted without the express permission of the copyright holder.
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;-) just kidding of course
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Re: Re: Why can't this idea work?
They could of course use the money to create the biggest, fastest, best music database that has ever existed, so that people will use that instead of filesharing networks, and then it will be much easier to track who gets what piece of the pie.
They should have done that years ago, instead of letting the negotiations with Napster fail and then suing them into bankruptcy.
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Re: oversimplified
Or at least Torrentfreak's interpretation of it.
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Re: Re:
That's why it should be frozen.
However, I also think copyright should be heavily reformed, as well as the horrible licensing systems.
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No I am not. If I have never downloaded anything from illegal sources at any point in my life, it wouldn't be fair to tax the storage devices I'm going to buy.
Anyway, personally I don't think the tax is that unfair. It's a reasonable part of a bigger solution. The government is always going to subsidize stuff that you will never need or make use of, but the tax and subsidies exist so that society as a whole can profit from it.
However, when it comes to this tax, I do not think the music industry deserves it, since they have failed to provide a good amount of reasonable alternatives in the last years and basically have failed to innovate.
So pay-outs of this money should be frozen, until they do. Or should only be given out after guarantees have been given that the money will be used to develop better alternatives within a certain time-frame.
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Haha, so true.
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As for the EU legislation thing... I'm starting to see such claims more often. Stuff like 'EU standards', etc. but what those who use it actually mean is the French standards. The more countries introduce crazy three strike measures, the easier it will be for the industry to pull other countries into it too.
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Re: Slander?
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Sounds familiar
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Imagine such a world.
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"pirated digital copies of the novel were found on file-sharing sites such as Rapidshare and BitTorrent."
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Re: Public Performance ?
Bars in Holland need a license for the music they play. Even when there's nobody in the bar, they still need to pay for that license.
Buma thinks the internet is the same. LOL.
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