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EU Copyright Reform: Your Input Is Needed!
An anonymous reader writes "The European Commission has finally (as of last month) opened its public consultation on copyright reform. This is the first time the general public can influence EU copyright policy since fifteen years back, and it is likely at least as much time will pass until next time. In order to help you fill out the (English-only, legalese-heavy) questionnaire, some friendly hackers spent some time during the 30c3 to put together a site to help you. Anyone, EU citizen or not, organization or company, is invited to respond (deadline fifth of February). Pirate MEP Amelia Andersdotter has a more in-depth look at the consultation."
Really? How would you enforce copyright without censorship and without infringing upon people's real private property rights? If I can't send those bits to someone else using my own equipment, you are infringing upon my rights.
If you won't make your content available in a convenient form in a timely fashion, you lose the right to complain when someone else does.
Hi, my name is privacy. There are laws protecting me. They have nothing to do with copyright. They have everything to do with this scenario you described.
Also, please take your faux "oh think of the children" and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.
The concept of owning a physical good has been around a long time, and without laws people simply used physical force to protect their ownership.
The same thing is not true of information... You can protect information by keeping it secret, but once the secret gets out you can't stop it from spreading. Similarly the spread of information doesn't deprive the originator of that information.
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Maybe. On the other hand, 10 year terms means no movie company ever has to pay the author of a book for making the movie out of a book, or adher to the authors wishes. Just wait the years out.