Kim, not sure why this means copyright is dead. As a cynic, I would assume that privacy will be gone. After all, the powers that be don't want whistleblowers, a free press, wikileaks, etc. In conjunction with the real powers, ie. the large corporations, they'll get rid of privacy as a 'good for society' thing and copyright will thrive as a by product continuing to make them lots of moolah.
bobj On 27/01/14 10:47 AM, Kim Holburn wrote: > http://torrentfreak.com/why-the-copyright-industry-is-doomed-in-one-single-sentence-140126/ > >> Any digital, private communications channel can be used for private >> protected correspondence, or to transfer works that are under copyright >> monopoly. >> In order to prevent copyright monopoly violations from happening in such >> channels, the only means possible is to wiretap all private digital >> communications to discover when copyrighted works are being communicated. As >> a side effect, you would eliminate private communications as a concept. >> There is no way to sort communications into legal and illegal without >> breaching the postal secret – the activity of sorting requires observation. >> Therefore, as a society, we are at a crossroads where we can make a choice >> between privacy and the ability to communicate in private, with all the >> other things that depend on that ability (like whistleblower protections and >> freedom of the press), or a distribution monopoly for a particular >> entertainment industry. These two have become mutually exclusive and cannot >> coexist, which is also why you see the copyright industry lobbying so hard >> for more surveillance, wiretapping, tracking, and data retention (they >> understand this perfectly). > -- -------------------------------- Dr Bob Jansen Turtle Lane Studios Pty Ltd PO Box 26, Erskineville NSW 2043, Australia Ph (Korea): +82 10-4494-0328 Ph (Australia) +61 414 297 448 Resume: http://au.linkedin.com/in/bobjan Skype: bobjtls http://www.turtlelane.com.au In line with the Australian anti-spam legislation, if you wish to receive no further email from me, please send me an email with the subject "No Spam" _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
