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Denmark Poised to Legalize Music Sharing
Cryogenes writes: "Denmark's minister of culture is pushing a law that will legalize private music sharing. This is a logical step for a small country that has no music exports anyway: by weakening copyright they are making their citizens richer without losing revenue. And what with Denmark being an EU member, nobody will dare call them a rogue state or something. Further information on infoanarchy and on Politiken (in danish)."
One small detail i`m unsure of. How will the star wars project be able to distinguish between a suitcase with a nuke in it, and any other suitcase in a New York subway, bus, airport etc?
The corrolary to "you do the crime, you do the time" is "you did the time, so why not do the crime?"
isn't this a beautiful irony.... I am fairly certain that Lars Ulrich of Metallica is originally from Denmark?
Blank video and audio cassettes are already taxed. Paper is kind of taxed, in that large institutions pay a special "tax" covering "expected copying (xeroxing) of copyrighted material".
Actually, everything is taxed (VAT), the above are special taxes that goes to a fund (CopyDan) which distribute the money to publishers, record companies and movie distributors. A tiny fraction goes to the artist, most of that goes to those who need it the least, i.e. the big sellers.
Sticks are not taxed, apart from VAT. However, if you mention it to our department of taxation, I'm sure that will be fixed in no time.
Wouldn't all of this directly contradict the European Union Directive on Copyright, which is like the DMCA only much more restrictive? Would the Danish parliament be obliged to weaken or repeal this law to bring it inline with the directive, or weaken the directive? The way I understand it, European member states are expected to pass laws implementing Directives pretty much as they are.
Any experts on European politics care to explain?
DENMARK: What happen???
MINISTER OF JUSTICE: Someone set up us the lawsuit.
MINISTER OF STATE: Main screen turn on.
DENMARK: It's you!!!
RIAA: How are you, Denmark?
All your tunes are belong to us.
You are on the way to embargo.
DENMARK: What you say?!!
RIAA: You have no chance negotiate make your settlement.
DENMARK: Move 'EU'. You know what you doing. For great MP3z!!
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Part of the fun of visiting Hong Kong was returning home with CDs containing copies of the latest applications. Is it still so?
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The post says they will compensate copyright holders with a 60 cent CD-R tax.
How well would that go over in the US?
Imagine RIAA members getting 60 cents everytime you backed up your por^H^H^H hard drive.
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
...Big Swedish music exports include Abba, Ace of Base, Roxette...
...and as a result, Sweden is now classified as an exporter of weapons of mass destruction.
;)
ABSURDITY, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
...Hillary Rosen woke up this morning and said to herself: ``There's something rotten in the state of Denmark!''
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Isn't it legal here?! I don't recall any verdicts to come down saying otherwise...
Jethro
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Sweden is in fact quite famous for its metal exports, and not just the subgenre of black metal. There's a whole series of death metal bands from Gothenburg that have pretty much created a new subgenre, and there's even germanic-style power/speed metal such as Hammerfall and Nocturnal Rites. These are very high-profile bands known by metalheads all over the world. I wouldn't be surprised if I even saw a Hammerfall CD in a retail music store(!) in USA. It's really that mainstream.
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What about Aqua? It says "music" ;-)
Cheers,
Tim (ducking and running...)
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Actually, there are those of us here in the UK who don't think that it's a very good idea at all, given the dangers of it starting another arms race.
After all, if you had been relying on your nukes to keep you "safe" in a "they'll never attack, it would be suicide" sort of way, then someone deployed a system to neutralise that "safety", wouldn't you try to reestablish the balance?
Still, this is a discussion for another time, methinks - we don't want to go to far Offtopic, do we?
Cheers,
Tim
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Although Frist Psot is ususally moderated as troll or offtopic, is is also technically redundant, since it has been posted hundreds of times before. A comment about Microsoft is evil, or Apple is dying, or about free beer is redundant, even if its the frist psot.
Reality has a liberal bias
It has nothing to do with luck. The people of Denmark are highly intelligent, due to their excellent (and free) education system. The result is the informed and intelligent electorate elects people with brains to government, who then pass laws that actually make sense. (Unlike certain other countries... *cough*USA*cough*)
Reality has a liberal bias
Well, its nice to see the Danish government wants to allow file sharing - and they're allowing it by taxing writeable CDs.
This isn't a victory for file sharing.
At best, the CD tax is just a throwaway "shut up and take it" measure. At worse, however, it is the start of the idea of enforcing profits. Either way, it sets a dangerous precident.
This is a tradeoff - taxes on specific media sent right to copyright holders so people don't get harassed or arrested for sharing files.
If something like this was tried in the United States, companies would demand taxes on everything - disks, videotapes, audiotapes, photocopier use, etc. It'd be used as nothing more to funnel money to them - enforced profits.
Let's hope Denmark's idea DOESN'T catch on.
"The Sage treasures Unity and measures all things by it" - Lao Tzu
Well, I'm completely against CD taxes, BUT... If they are going to collect them, do id Software, and Epic, and Planet Moon, etc, get their cut? The only thing I use CDs for other than backups, etc, is games. I actually own Giant, Q3, and UT, but I know many people who've pirated them - more people than have burned MP3s...
So, to be fair, the RIAA has got to step back and let that tax be fairly divided. And now with DiVX, the MPAA is going to be involved. (And they seem to think movies are more important than music...)
It'll be nice to see a little infighting.
this is really not such a big deal. As it is now Danish law says that it is illegal to make digital! copies of digital content. (Me reading slashdot in Denmark is borderline criminal behaviour since my computer makes a digital copy of a digital original).
With everyone owning cd-burners and with compression technology (mp3) this law is outdated. It came about in response to the music industries wish to protect itself with the advent of music cd's.
Danish copyright law states that everyone is entitled to make personal copies of published material. You can copy books, videos etc. It is of course illegal to publish such material, or to sell it. You can only make personal copies.
The new law proposes the same restrictions on digital content. Any published material may be copied for personal use. The bearing on Napster is of course that when music is available on Napster it is in fact published material. As such anyone can make a personal copy.
It will still be illegal to publish material on the internet without consent of the copyright holders, so Danes will still be prohibited from sharing music via Napster.
Søren
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Being Danish, I feel I must make a few comments here.
Currently, it's illegal to make a personal copy of a CD. Say, one for the car and one for the living room. I think this also includes MP3's, but the laws are hopelessly outdated. (Actually, it's illegal to make exact digital copies. If you run your CD through a Digital-to-Analog-to-Digital converter, you should technically be OK.)
The new law (in the making) suggests that it should be legal to make digital copies for personal use. Second generation copies (copy-of-a-copy) should not be legal, as a mean to avoid music piracy.
The artists should be reimbursed with funds coming from a new CDR-tax, of appr. $0.50 pr. disc[1]. (Good thing I just stockpiled 100 80 min. Kodaks, heh.
Of course, we copy stuff as crazy, so I don't see this being of much practical importance.
On a somewhat related note, this is the country that just ruled that *linking* to MP3's is illegal. Yes, two kids, 16 at the time of the "crime", had been having a competition of who could collect the most MP3's from their homepages. They weren't storing them, just linking to them. Just got a bill for about $15.000. Freedom of speech, anyone?
Bo
[1] I find this somewhat fscked up, as not all CDR's are used to pirate data. Granted, in reality, that's probably the vast majority, but take my friend for instance. He runs a small side-business (linuxpusher.dk) selling homeburned Linux-distros. If the new law comes through, he's going to be sending ~$100 away in taxes each month, for something he doesn't have anything to do with.
Don't forget that it's unreliable. As SMDI found, it's very easy to distord a signal so that the recognition fails, but without noticable effects to the human listening.
If major artists get about 25 cents from the sale of a fifteen dollar CD, they should try to migrate to a tips-for-what-you-like model, as suggested by Courtney Love, among others. As seller of a payment system that allows efficient, instant, international micro (or macro) payments, I'm of course self-interested when I say this, but it goes beyond that, and I don't care if they also use competing payment systems. The important thing is to keep the RIAA from filtering out the lion's share for -- as Ms. Love so eloquently puts it -- trips to Scores (a famous NYC stripper bar, for those who don't know).
This idea at first sounds bad for the RIAA, and it is, but it's a double-edged sword. Musicians are gonna have to get used to only being paid for good work. Packaging three (or fewer!) good songs among 12 shitty ones is NOT going to fly anymore. We won't pay. OTOH, a tipjar on the website asking for very-little e-gold might well pay more than selling the same number of CDs as free-downloads given away.
Of course, bad people will not give anything, but ask yourself what you do in an unfamiliar city at a place you'll never eat in again when tipping-time comes. I leave a tip if the service was halfway decent -- and a really-nice tip if it was great. I don't do it for the recipient, I do it for ME (I once worked for tips, that makes a difference I've found). Anyway, I'm still working to get folks to see that e-gold is a solution to the Napster "problem." It's been slow, as more folks want to argue (at least, that was my experience at CFP99) and shout than think about a new way of paying or being paid for what we want online.
JMR
Try e-gold - (contact me). I'm NOT e-
What are the real odds for US Customs to catch a container hosting a nuclear bomb ?
Have you any idea how many countainers enter the US every day ? Why use missiles when you have trucks to deliver your warheads...
(I said container because Irak miniaturisation technologies aren't on par with US ones...)
ala Amsterdam, though instead of hanging out in coffee bars getting stoned, they'll hang out in cyber-cafe's trading MP3s.
And when you get back to the States, Customs will go over your laptop and CDs with a fine tooth comb.
Sheesh. I can go through 5 cds in a couple of days.
I hope that I can get $50/100cds later on today.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
From what I can see;
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1. It allows you to copy from Napster to your CD/HD legally. A country of legal leeches.
2. It allows you to rent a DVD/movie and legally rip it for your own use.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
From the CDR Faq: Because of the media tax imposed by the Canadian government (see section (7-13)), you are allowed to copy any music for your own personal use. This means that you can go over to a friend's house and copy any number of discs you like, so long as they are for your own use. You are not allowed to make copies of music and then give them to others.
You can check the law yourself. The recording industry kinda skipped over this one. At least you get something for yet another miserable tax, er, levy. After all, just because a corporation doesn't LIKE something, doesn't make it ILLEGAL. What is illegal after all? The government is supposed to reflect the will of the people and the best interest of society, not the short term gain of the RIAA. (Especially if you're not IN America). That's why copyright is supposed to expire; why you have the right to parody and fair use; etc.
Now, does this apply to file sharing software? It hasn't been argued in court that I'm aware of, but perhaps it should be. After all, it's legal for me to copy cds that a friend has - why not their mp3 equivilants? Keeping mind of course, for personal use implies that there is no financial gain, which kinda hurts napster-like models. This might give some canadian users some power if they get hassled by their ISP for whatever.
..don't panic
As much as I find this extremely amusing, I'm pretty sure that this would violate international copyright agreements.
I'm not _completely_ sure off course, but imho all "civilized" countries have a lot of agreements on this.
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America is a rogue state. It is not a Democracy but a Plutocracy. It should be expelled from all international bodies
Oh no, please don't do that. Whatever will we do if we don't get to pay for 25% of the UN budget while they pass anti-US resolutions, or pay for our military to defend the rest of the world?
until they democratically elect a government
We did. Perhaps you missed it, but Bush won around 5 separate recounts. Deal with it.
How to solve most of our problems: 1.Lots of nuclear plants. 2.Cure aging.
Aqua.. heard it described in lots of ways. Black Metal wasn't one. Now excuse me while I continue listening to the Hives (swedish)
//rdj
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--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
here in the netherlands, ISPs are not allowed to give out your name to some random company.
and ofcourse I can claim anyone to be my friend. Can't say meeting is a prerequisite.. a penpal who I've never met can easily be my friend. One could even make the point that everyone is your friend until proven otherwise. RIAA lawyers? they don't tell me who is or isn't my friend..and I highly doubt "friend" is a legally defined term.
//rdj
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
depends on your definition of 'friend' I guess. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. the RIAA is my enemy. anyone who downloads music is RIAA's enemy. And damnit, the RIAA will never tell me who is, or isn't my friend :)
//rdj
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
Often when I look for a song nowadays its because it is no longer in stock (rare techno songs I listen to) so I search for it to hear for a few times. Other times I look for a song I may have heard and like, wanted to purchase but didn't know the title or the artist, again in future plans to buy the CD.
All the governments and companies are doing at this point is waisting money and arguing over spilled milk which never fell from their cup.
Why not create an AntiNapster based site where those artists concerned with theft of songs could enter their names into that database, and have those songs filtered. After all studies have shown that people who download mp3's end up buying the songs anyways. I'm sure once some of those artists start realizing how much their competition is making off the move, they'll get those dildos out of their asses and make that switch.
Ever notice how when things are "taboo" more people will sometimes seek it out with greater passion than they normally would if it were readily obtainable? Industry sparking all these "anti-mp3" issues dig their own coffin, and I wonder if they're too stupid to realize this, or are trying to prove a point to bolster their own egos, or company reputations.
Solution: Find a real life Tyler Durden and sic him on RIAA, and others like them.
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>>>OTOH, Denmark is not some music loving college boy, who you can push around with legal threats.
:-)
It would certainly bring a new meaning to the phrase you and who's army?
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watch where you point that statement, boy... just because there's only a couple of hardcore black metal fans out there that buy their music from sweden, norway and denmark, doesn't mean it has NO music export.
There is already something similar, but uniquely twisted, in the UK.
Over here you can buy normal CDRs for very little (about $1 per disk) - the only tax involved is standard VAT (sales tax). However, if you go into a shop you will see other CDRs, labelled "CDR Audio", which look identical, but cost far more. Last I saw you were looking at around $5 per disk! These disks actually are identical to regular CDRs, but with a bit flipped somewhere in the media id field. The "consumer" CD recorders (the standalone hifi ones) will only work with these disks. The idea is that Joe Bloggs with an audio-only CDR unit is obviously copying audio CDs, which are probably copyrighted. Therefore he has to use the expensive disks, which pay an amount (no idea how much) to the UK equivalent of the RIAA.
It's fine for most people though, if you use a computer based CDR unit it will take the cheap disks, and they work great in all players. I have also heard shop assistants telling (l)users that they have to use the expensive ones for all audio recording, otherwise it won't play back in a regular cd player. I guess the shop make a higher margin on the CDA disks.
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If I have a CD and my buddy wants a copy, I can legally give him one (there's so court case that says it's okay, but I don't know where it is).
But that's a bit different then putting something online for anybody to grab. That's not really sharing with your friends, that's closer to distribution.
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You can read the lawproposal online at Forslag til lov om ændring af ophavsretsloven., it will help you if you understand danish, because there are no translations.
A quote: Forslaget indebærer, at der kun gives adgang til kopiering af tekst, musik og billeder m.v. i digital form til personlig brug f.eks. med henblik på optagelse af radio- og tv-udsendelser til tidsforskudt brug, kopiering af en musik-cd til bilen, til sommerhuset eller til en walkman, kopiering til en opsamlings-cd og kopiering til en pc med henblik på elektronisk afvikling inden for husstanden. Derimod vil det ikke være tilladt at fremstille digitale eksemplarer, der bruges uden for den enkelte husstand, f.eks. kopiering til bekendte og skolekammerater. Det vil heller ikke være tilladt for køberen af et digitalt leveret musikværk at videresende musikværket via e-mail til venner og bekendte. Kopiering til personlig brug omfatter endvidere ikke kopiering som led i arbejde eller undervisning.
A rough translation: The proposal implies that it only will be allowed to make copies of text, music and pictures and so forth, in digital form for personal use, for example the recording of radio- and tv-broadcasts for timeshifting, copying af music-cd's for the car, holidayresidence or for a walkman, copying of sample-cd's for use in the household. It will not be allowed to make digital copies, that will be used outside of the individual household, f.ex. copying for friends and schoolmates. It will further not be allowed for the buyer of a digital musicproduct to give away copies to to friends or aqaintances via email. Further copying for personal use does not imply copying related to work or studies.
So I don't see how this can legalize Napster, it will only decriminalize the downloading, but the users are not allowed to share their collection with the work, and isn't that the purpose of Napster?But at least it will be legal to use a Browser in Denmark now, because the existing law prohibits all digital copying, and as you all know, a browser allways makes digital copies, one in the RAM-cache and one on the disk-cache. That was an oversight in the old law, and it was never uphold.
Why don't you tax cassettes, and video cassettes, and well, hard drives because I can copy virtually anything onto those. And hey, now that I think about it, I often copy poems without the permission of the author onto a medium called 'paper', better tax that too. Oh, and sticks. Sometimes I use them to scratch symbols into the dirt without the permission of the author.
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if i'm gonna be paying a 60 cent cd-r tax, i'll just stop buying them.
well done, that's exactly what the RIAA want.
size would become an issue. you could use compact flash - ibm has that nice gig microdrive though im not sure what cameras that can be used in.
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no. i mean steganographic.
stenography is writing in shorthand.
steganography is hiding information in such a way that people cannot tell you are hiding a message.
outguess hides data in image (pnm and jpg) files in such a way that you cannot tell the image is also storing data. There is also StegFS, the steganographic file system, in which other people cannot discern information about the file system, like how much space is being used, how many files there are, filenames, etc.
The whole point is that if no one even knows you are hiding something, then they won't know to look. With information which is just encrypted, then people can see that there is something for them to attempt to decipher. But this means that steganography is security through obscurity, so you'd want to couple it with some strong encryption too.
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"there's nothing rotten in the state of denmark"
Although Frist Psot is ususally moderated as troll or offtopic, is is also technically redundant, since it has been posted hundreds of times before. A comment about Microsoft is evil, or Apple is dying, or about free beer is redundant, even if its the frist psot.
Crap. I guess I better stop saying how good Linux is, else I may lose my precious karma to Redundancy.
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But lets not forget Denmark has very strict copyright laws, its the only(?) country on the planet where its not legal to make a copy of a music cd. And this law is of course only for private use, not putting it up on the net - only two weeks ago two kids were found guilty in the courts for putting up links to mp3 - the danish music industry had filed the suit
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If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
The future may be sooner than you think, eh?
The only good thing about copyright is the incetive it provides to produce new works. Therefore, it should only apply to works that would not be produced in the absence of copyright (ie. not to email) and it should only prevent copying that prevents the copyright holder from large scale commercial distribution of the work (ie. large scale commercial distribution by someone else).
It should be remembered that when copyright was first put in place it the US it was much more limited: protection only applied to books and a couple other specific things, protection only lasted 14 years and there was a requirement to register and publish.
Ever heard of Aqua? D:A:D? (formerly known as Disneyland after Dark) Michael Learns to Rock? (Huge success in Asia) Check this danish portal for more. /neurox
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
so, because we can "only" stop about 60% (I've heard that a laser based system would be closer to 90%) of the warheads launched at us, we shouldn't bother? If you can only cure 60% of the people infected with HIV, would you not do it because it's only "60% effective?"
You always have to consider cost-benefit analysis. That's exactly what Bush has just done with arsenic. He figures, "If it cost $80 billion to lower the arsenic content to 10 ppb, and saves 50 lives, is it worth it? Is it not possible that 50 extra people would fall below the poverty line and die of exposure if the $80 billion weren't spent otherwise?"
So, consider cost-benefit analysis on the nuclear shield. If we spend $80 billion on a nuclear sheild, and of the 100 nuclear warheads launched at Washington, D.C., we successfully shoot down 90 of them... what have we really gained?
"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he deems himself your master."
It will be interesting to see how the RIAA reacts [if this laws passes], either by claiming that Denmark violates international law, or by trying to get .dk banned altogether, or both. Perhaps they will lobby to change the law in such a fashion that access to file sharing and MP3 sites / networks must be forbidden for foreigners.
Maybe the RIAA will advocate the US declare war on Denmark for threatening the dominance of american culture. Or try to ban the internet because it is such a threat to their way of life (greed)
In general, I like the fact that more and more major artisits are starting to side with the Napster side of the argument, seeing how the major labels are abusing the artists they say they are protecting.
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"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
US while allowing China to pollute as much as it wants
Ohh the big evil China.. anything can be justified because of the Chinease - i seem to remember anything being justified becuase of the Russians at one point... americans are fucking sheep... get a clue - your media & government whip up a public hysteria about 'the enemy' anytime it wants to do something stupid - are you people that fucking dumb?
this has nothing to do with China or other polluters - it has to do with bush repaying the big companies who elected him buy not upsetting the status quo (for any reason - no matter how grave) just to protect their pocket books. They are allowed to rape and pillage the commons now - they make profit now - they like it this way.
Who are the twits who go along with the 'china is an economic adversary - we cannot let the chinese any advantage!" propaganda? Maybe you could petition the UN to ask China to *ALSO* join Kyoto. That would be a solution - not *DROPPING OUT* just to maintain your economic imperialism... fucking assholes.
America is a rogue state. It is not a Democracy but a Plutocracy. It should be expelled from all international bodies - the world should end trade, travel and co-operation with the USA until they democratically elect a government and remove the puppets with Big Corp. up their ass.
About Amsterdam, my comment on that was not about the Dutch having problems with laws on drugs, it was about 2 things:
I don't like seeing sleazy coffeshops and stoned tourists taking over the town (it's a matter of opinion)
The city of Amsterdam realizing that they can make more money off rich older tourists that aren't so interested in smoking weed but have lots to spend in Hotels, museums etc. etc. than they can make money off weed smoking teenage backpackers.
Regarding me backing up my claims, exactly which claim do you want me to back up ? How about you back up your claims about Dutch drug laws "working just fine" ? I'm Dutch and I now for a fact that the drug laws are not working "just fine" and that violent alcohol related crime *is* on the increase.
I can't say it for sure but, it would seem that bush has no bad attitude, he is just plain dumb.
...what do you expect from a guy that was drunk fo r large part of his adult life...
...or maybe it's just me
It's funny really: situation with China and enviromentalists, oli companies, etc...
AC is AC
So Denmark hopes to appease the copyright-holders by having a media tax since most people buying blank CDs are pirates anyway. Okaaayyy...
What about me? I'm deaf. Yes I do wear a cochlear implant/hearing aid combo to help me hear, but it's not perfect. I can't enjoy lyrics as it's just noise and I can't understand what it is they're saying/singing. And I have to pay this tax because I might pirate music that I realistically won't ever use/listen to?
Send the RIAA my way. Let them try to tell me (and the world) that I'm probably going to pirate music and therefore I should pay up.
IMHO something seems just wrong about a law passed that basically assumes that everyone is a pirate until proven otherwise. And even if they ARE proven otherwise, they STILL have to pay up.
What happened to "presumed innocent until proven guilty?" Shouldn't the burden be on the RIAA to recover their (imaginary?) losses?
Oh, and I'm also a software developer. Where's my cut of the tax money for all the losses caused by software piracy?
How to counter this ? At first I thought many studios and artists might refuse to tour in Denmark, and perhaps even refuse to sell their CDs and music videos in Denmark. But then the problem would be brought back to them in spades as this would force people to download music.
This is funny, because I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that Lars Ulrich (of Metallica) graduated from High School in Copenhagen, Denmark.
...All I can say is that my life is pretty strange...
Hmmm... I can set set up my web server in CA or TX and be subject to all sorts of corporate and government bully boy tactics, or I can pay slightly more and set up a hosting deal in Copenhagen and be protected under their favorable sharing laws. I can put up all my favorite MP3's up on my website or share them via a shell account, and fear little or no reprecussion.
Hmmm... I think I'll setup in Texas... NOT!
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Napster were to sell out to these people, then what could the RIAA do about it. They wouldn't be able to enforce any type of "filtering" on them. Ah well, just an idea...
- That's not the job of the anti-missile defense. The anti-missile defense handles... missiles!
- If you want to find a suitcase with a nuke in it, you could start with the nice X-ray opacity of heavy metals like uranium and plutonium. The elements of a bomb would stand out really well at any airport baggage-checker. Then there is the background radioactivity of the bomb materials; use a gamma spectrometer and you're going to find the bomb even in a ship-load of containers. Use a gamma camera and you can pick the individual container. You can do this without having to board the ship.
This stuff is all old hat; the kind of detectors required have been in use at nuclear plants for about 20 years (they even detect radon on people's clothes). Saddam Hussein has had nukes for about ten years now. He hasn't nuked the USA yet (I'm sure we would have all heard of that). If it's so easy to put a nuke on a ship and blow up a port city, why hasn't he? Maybe it's not quite as easy to sneak things in as some people think, and finding a nuke on a ship would be the excuse for the US military to march into Baghdad and carry his head out on a bayonet. That's why nobody has tried this: it's not likely to work, and it's suicide regardless.--
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... a new US/EU trade war over this issue?
now that makes sence. if music could be copied (while remaining under the terms of fair use) I would not mind paying a tax on the media that I use to copy it.
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