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BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates
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After cutting its teeth as a domestic broadcaster, the BBC is spreading its products all around the globe. Shows like Top Gear have done extremely well overseas and the trend of exploiting other shows in multiple territories is set to continue. As a result, the BBC is now getting involved in the copyright debates of other countries, notably Australia, where it operates four subscription channels. Following submissions from Hollywood interests and local ISPs, BBC Worldwide has now presented its own to the Federal Government. Its text shows that the corporation wants new anti-piracy measures to go further than ever before.
The BBC begins by indicating a preference for a co-operative scheme, one in which content owners and ISPs share responsibility to "reduce and eliminate" online copyright infringement. ... "Since the evolution of peer-to-peer software protocols to incorporate decentralized architectures, which has allowed users to download content from numerous host computers, the detection and prosecution of copyright violations has become a complex task. This situation is further amplified by the adoption of virtual private networks (VPNs) and proxy servers by some users, allowing them to circumvent geo-blocking technologies and further evade detection," the BBC explains.
The BBC begins by indicating a preference for a co-operative scheme, one in which content owners and ISPs share responsibility to "reduce and eliminate" online copyright infringement. ... "Since the evolution of peer-to-peer software protocols to incorporate decentralized architectures, which has allowed users to download content from numerous host computers, the detection and prosecution of copyright violations has become a complex task. This situation is further amplified by the adoption of virtual private networks (VPNs) and proxy servers by some users, allowing them to circumvent geo-blocking technologies and further evade detection," the BBC explains.
Some houses, such as that of Mark Twain, and old presidents, do enter public domain, sort of, like a museum item, but I think the inheritors get a fair purchase price for releasing it into public domain like private museum holder ship. Perhaps similar things could be applied to intellectual property that's really difficult to let go of, such as the looming Mickey Mouse entering into public domain in 2020, and Disney will lobby billions to yet again extend copyright law. I got this CD at Walmart, released by Disney, titled "Let it go", which I found really funny. It's like I was a zombie and led to it directly through mind control. So anyway, when it's time for Disney to let Mickey Mouse go, perhaps the people, the public, who become the next owners, could compensate Disney during such a difficult transaction, and pay them some decent sum from the tax funds to make such a transition easier, similar to how the Mark Twain house probably got a decent sum at the transaction from the inheritors into public display conservatorship.