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WIPO Music Control Treaty Ratified
Greyfox writes: "Here's one that slipped through the cracks. The WIPO (You know, that unelected, unaccountable organization that lives in the Corporate back pockets) has ratified a anti-music piracy treaty which will go into effect on May 20. It apparently has anti-circumvention measures similar to the DMCA and will carry the force of law in the USA and other member countries." We had a more informative story about these two treaties a few months ago. The only new information is that the Phonograms and Performances Treaty now has enough signatures to go into effect in May.
Bush won't be pushed around by big, evil corporations!
They don't have to accept the treaty if they don't want to. The US is dependant on these foreign countries to buy our stuff. If 80% of them decided they didn't like the way things were they could change it. It would require international cooperation and some backbone.
"...has ratified a anti-music piracy treaty"
;-)
I assume you meant "anti-music-piracy" or "anti music-piracy" but I like your version better.
Seems like all these damned laws are anti-music.
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
Imagine if someone looked through your window at the wallpaper in your house, decided it was an ugly color, and then broke into your house to paint all your walls pink. Would that be cool with you??
Oh yeah? How would YOU like it if every time someone flew a white helicopter over your father's tomato farm, a rhinoceros shows up and steps on his bicycle? Yeah, would that be cool with you??
Yeah, I didn't THINK so!
But it opens the door for third-party or industry sanctioned, consumer/commodity backup devices. I see a whole new market for DRM compliant backup devices.
For those of you in the hardware side, now's your chance to start a small company, put out a product that is cheap, well-made, reliable, satisfies the consumer need to make fair-use backups, and the need for copyright holders to protect their IP, all so you can grow fast, gain interest, become too big for your own infrastructure, go IPO, put out a crappy but much anticipated encore product because you're now thinly-veiled corporate schills, take a huge loss on R&D, advertising and lose millions, get bought out by a front company for one of the media cartels, and have an entire consumer goods market vanish from the face of the earth under the administration of the new parent company, who promises to develop the product but quietly buries it.
Sweet dreams, Adam Smith. Welcome to the New New Economy.