Re: EU offers public a chance to fix copyright law
Well its a good step, however downloading the document and then converting it to text, there were a lot of inaccessable things in it, bolding and underlining sertain parts, ticking boxes, and other things.You would almost have to print out the form, tick the boxes, etc, scan it back in and send it back.Its quite complex, and though I started doing it it quickly got to complex and i just quit bothering but for those that can its sertainly a step in the right direction unless you are the mpaa or riaa who will probably just put foreward more of the same shit they have been putting foreward for the last 2 or so years restricting everyones rights to the net.Most of it doesnt make it ofcause but the rest means more covering our ips and hoping we dont go to jail for something stupid.One thing though, at least in new zealand site of the dotcom drama, now the dotcom party and the dotcom movement a lot of the big companies and local corps as well as
consumer groups and parts of government seem to be against such issues, including the big coms companies, our music companies have not said anything though the one and only time or so that we dropped our defences were for the torrent laws.It was expected that with the new laws coming up, that more opertunities would open up.They havent and now its back to the limited war a small country can muster.So far we seem to be avoiding any big trouble but how much.I have not for instance seen anything that would ammount for any big things.Mostly we avoid the troubled alegal places or hide ourselves.Last year the first cases came out of those charged under the new system.They were fined the costs of the tracks they downloaded as digital, admin costs, and a small fine for breaking the law.It was less than the supposed cash fines the big corps wanted.Its also costly to put a notice out, and even more costly to get a tribun
al to hear the case.Sertainly we will not be dropping to just dollar cases for the evils to come and take over.As it is what we charge barely covers what it costs to sue for this.I am not saying the day wont come when things become really bad but for now its good.One thing that has saved my rear is that youtube is viewed as legal streaming tender.Thus, I can download a full song using a free downloader.Its probably viewed as another stream.There are other services like spotify where music can be quite cheap to.I do think for now the big evils have lost.No one will listen anymore.I looked at the riaa website and to be honest copying anything that is not yours unless it allows a copy for backup licence is wrong.Since no music cd has that I can assume that putting your personal music on your ipod or playing it in anothers stereo, sharing with family and friends purely for listening offline mind you is also wr
ong.So whatever.I figure as long as you dont upload a tone of it or sell it you are probably ok, heck as long as you dont put it online well.There was a movement to stop net radio because of this but it never ended with anything.Hardly any software says in its licence or cd that you can make a copy for backup.So everything that you backup is also alegal.Its all laughable.I wont blatently do something stupid, that would be asking for it good and propper but what they dont see is not their problem really.At any cost the big guys are looking for huge volumes not small strips of junk.They want proffit not little small fry.One thing though is you do need to keep your security up.There was a case of someone that left his system on during holiday, had a security issue, got a virus.His system downloaded 1000 images of child spam over several weeks.He is now in jail.His id was stolen b
ut no one cares about that.Then again I think he was extremely dumb.You dont leave things on during the holidays.In my house everything from the ups to most power is turned off.The fridge is emptied, and only the fridges, and things like the pool pump are on as well as the security systems.Everything for stereos, computers, the net, the phone, everything else is off including all water.Everything is stored away, I have often wandered if I could start a large download, go away and come back with it done but I wouldnt.So leaving your system on is a bit stupid when away for ages.Second downloading that much would use disk space and bandwidth even if his security did not trigger this was unknown at the time the virus so maybe it didnt but surely he could have noticed something.For all that he should have had his net privilages revoked and be banned from owning a computer for life or at least till he got some trainin
g, in addition his computer should have been crushed by a truck and sold as scrap metal.That would be more fitting.But no, he is in jail and thats where he will stay.The person that did this probably wont get done mainly because once someone is in jail thats all that matters and even if he is found it doesnt matter.Even
