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 French Parliament Nixes Web Piracy BillPosted on Apr 9, 2009
Sacre bleu! Some conservative members of France’s parliament are probably regretting their decision to begin their Easter break a little early, as their absence allowed rival socialists to ambush an Internet piracy bill on Thursday.
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By dont submit, April 11, 2009 at 1:21 pm Link to this comment
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There’s a lot more at stake here than merely the file-sharing struggle. President Obama is failing miserably on this critical matter of privacy and spying on private citizens. As example, see <eff.org> front page.
This was a good Truthdig article.
Report thisBy WykydRed, April 11, 2009 at 6:06 am Link to this comment
Hmmm. People will “devolve” to what they did before they could file-share so easily over the Internet: They’ll burn copies and snail mail the mothers. Hey, maybe the Post Office will make money!
Report thisBy Russian Paul, April 10, 2009 at 3:42 pm Link to this comment
The prevailing view (rationalization) erroneously holds that the entertainment industry is greedy and deserves to get less. But it is always the worker bees that take the first and biggest hit.
Well I can’t speak for the piracy of TV and film, but as far as music goes, speaking as a musician, the people who lose out ARE the greedy executives/mega pop stars. The true starving musicians have always made money off touring and merchandise, NOT album sales. In this new internet age, all music should be freely available to everyone, that’s not a rationilization, it’s inevitable and an excellent way of sharing and connecting musicians around the world. It’s never the underground, starving artists who complain about this, it’s always the record industries and millionaire megastars like Metallica. If one tries to profit of another’s music, copyright should be enforced, but album sales are dead. Trying to change that would be like trying to revive someone who has been dead for a decade.
Report thisBy WriterOnTheStorm, April 10, 2009 at 11:15 am Link to this comment
If this is implemented, it will be interesting to see if it is effective. As an increasing number of people view this kind of theft as morally acceptable, having a way to stigmatize its practitioners is essential.
The prevailing view (rationalization) erroneously holds that the entertainment industry is greedy and deserves to get less. But it is always the worker bees that take the first and biggest hit. It’s the regular people with real mortgages and kids to raise that are let go as a result of the revenue loss.
The inability (unwillingness) of people to connect the economic dots, especially in large social structures, is disappointing. Even something as obvious as the disastrous long-term effects to a local economy of shopping at walmart seems to escape most. And when the tent cities start to crop up, we look for someone, anyone but ourselves, to blame.
Report thisBy hidflect, April 10, 2009 at 8:01 am Link to this comment
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So the fascists were too lazy for the cash to even show up and vote for the RIAA lawyers’ bill? Gee… too bad.
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