On Thursday 19 Jan 2012 14:17:07 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Personally, I think it's great that someone cooks up these proposed
> laws; helps bring the issue to the public's attention so they can start
> to ask in whose interest it is.
What never ceases to amaze me is how inept the people at the *PIA are:
* They use obviously cooked-up statistics to 'prove' that piracy is hurting
their business (like every illegal download has prevented a sale), even though
their profits have increased year-on-year since before downloading was
possible.
* They ignore all the genuine studies, which show that people who download
generally spend more on music/movies than those who don't.
* They overload the term 'download', so that tools like bit-torrent suddenly
become associated with pirates, even though these same tools have plenty of
legitimate uses. This seriously *****-off everyone and makes their name mud,
such that even honest users feel no sympathy for their cause.
* They then use their trumped-up 'evidence' to justify copy protection
schemes that are relatively easy for pirates to circumvent, but are seriously
inconvenient for honest customers (DVD region coding, music tracks with DRM
applied and the Sony root-kit).
* They then use their trumped-up 'evidence' again to justify new legislation
to enforce their stupid schemes (DMCA and these ridiculous shenanigans), when
these too are relatively easy for pirates to circumvent, but are seriously
inconvenient for honest customers. (To overcome SOPA, all the miscreant has
to do is create a new domain name. No matter how many times the site gets
taken down, the pirates are going to be up and running again in far less time
than it takes the DoJ to take them down.)
* And plenty more.....
As I said; inept.
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