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G8 Summit Aims To Kill International Piracy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-can-only-end-well dept.

arcticstoat writes "Next week, the G8 summit will discuss proposals for new international piracy laws, which include border controls and cooperation from ISPs to identify pirates. The laws will also prevent ISPs from being liable for copyright infringement. If the G8 summit were to agree on these measures and enforce them through international cooperation, could they really cut down piracy, or would they be impractical to enforce?"

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  1. What kind of pirates? by GameboyRMH · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Data pirates or ship-hijacking pirates? Oh data pirates. You'd think they'd deal with the other type first.

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    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
    1. Re:What kind of pirates? by spun · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Seriously. A lot of people don't realize just how many actual ship-hijacking pirates their really are. Parts of Africa, especially near Somalia, are rife with them, as are the Straits of Malacca.

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      - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
    2. Re:What kind of pirates? by sm62704 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I don't know about your country's WTO members, but as an American I want all American WTO people tried for treason and put in front of a firing squad. And I want their companies' buildings leveled in the most hostile manner possible and their business licenses revoked.

      The WTO is anti-human. They need to be stopped by fair means or foul.

      It's disgusting that this comes before my country's Independance Day. My country's government is owned by foreigners and American traitors.

      Sorry for the ran but this really pisses me off.

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      mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
    3. Re:What kind of pirates? by Roger+W+Moore · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Sadly there are far more Data pirates than "Board ye ship" pirates.

      True, but data pirates don't kill people.

    4. Re:What kind of pirates? by Stellian · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Ignoring for a moment you parenthesis, I fail to see how piracy impacts the economies of other-than-US states.
      When most of your software is produced abroad, and your indigenous culture sells much less than Hollywood to your own people, then why should you protect the mostly-US copyrights ?
      Take for example the new French anti-piracy, 3 strikes law. It's obvious that most movies and most software (Games, Windows, Office) transferred by the pirates is of US origin. I would go even further, and say that if the pirates would no longer pay for American bits, and Americans themselves won't pay for french bits, the result would be a net win for France, lowering the import/export deficit - more money left to develop France, and less in Ballmer's account.
      In this perspective, the initiative of Sarkozy strikes me as very treacherous towards the French people - why should the French government protect the US copyright more aggressive than US themselves ? Hey, I can understand a little tap on the back from the US, but Sarkozy should protect his voters from US, not herd them like cattle into paying for imports.

  2. I'm so happy that by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Piracy is taking precedence over energy conservation, alternative energy, weapons proliferation, violent crime, inflation, commodity prices and a couple permanent wars. Hooray. Let's choose an IMPORTANT topic for this year's G8 meeting. After all, quadrillions of dollars are being lost and billions of people are put out of work every day/starve to death because little Johnny watched a Britney Spears video on Youtube!

    To the world's politicians: WHAT THE FUCK??? SERIOUSLY!

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    Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
    1. Re:I'm so happy that by russ1337 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      To get to the voters they need money.

      To get money they need donations

      Large Corporations donate money. Lots of it.

      Once in office, the allegiance is to the Corporation, as they provide the money to attract more votes.

    2. Re:I'm so happy that by Danse · · Score: 4, Insightful

      but how about the G8 ease other side of Copyright by allowing the old stuff into public domain within a reasonable timeframe.

      How would that help facilitate the continued transfer of wealth from the middle and lower classes to the amazingly wealthy ruling class? See, you haven't thought through what you're asking for.

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      It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
  3. Typo in Title by dynamo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The title of this story should read: "G8 Summit Aims To Kill International Privacy".

    1. Re:Typo in Title by sm62704 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I think it should read "G8 Summit Aims To Kill independant music labels and film studios". I guess Star Wreck really rattled Hollywood. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning was incrediby well done and hilarious.

      "My" representatives don't even represent my country, let alone me. They represent the foreigners who own the entertainment industries.

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      mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
  4. Governments have worked so well against drugs by faloi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's no way they can fail to stop piracy!

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    "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein
  5. News Flash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Rich people come together to discuss ways of solving problems that annoy rich people, while ignoring those problems that are genuinely harmful to most people.

    The very questionable belief that anything that is problematic for a rich person ultimately winds up harming the poor is once again offered as justification.

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.