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Music Industry 'trying to hijack EU data laws'
sebFlyte writes "The recording industry is trying to hijack the EU's data retention directive, which is being brought in to fight terrorism, to try and get their copyright battles fought for them. As previously reported, the EU may be making copyright infringement a criminal offence, and the Creative Media Business Alliance is lobbying hard to stop the European laws on data retention being restricted to cover terrorism and organized crime (as is currently proposed). In essence, they want to be able to get police to search through newly extended records from ISPs to look for evidence of illegal filesharing. In the words of the executive director of the Open Rights group, 'the music industry's attempt to hijack this legislation is a travesty and a gross affront to civil liberties and human rights.'"
You think it's reasonable to have police look through the records for them? At the expense of hours upon hours that should be going towards doing more important things, like... I dunno... ending crime? That would only make sense, and this IS am-- wait, no it's not! What the fuck?!
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
I honestly firmly don't care about music, songs, movies and enterntainment in general. But I do care about things like biological/technical/scientific advances. But for those advances I am against patents, not copyrights. In fact I am pro-copyrights because they let me control how my work is distributed. So for me what music industry is doing sounds reasonable.
Just remember how reasonable you think they are when they come knocking on your door for downloading a study of Mars called "The Red Planet" or a treatise on metamorphisis called "The Butterfly Effect".
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
At least, that's what I thought..
RIAA has just announce the successful conviction using the new law. Mary Elizabeth Johansen was just sentances to 135,439 years to be served consecutively after she "left a new peer to peer program running" over her Christmas break while traveling to to see family. Her father was hoping that she would not be charged as an adult, but the judge said his hands were tied and the law required it. RIAA helped out by sending a group to help talk about the new law to her 3rd grade class.