Let's look away from the media companies who has obviously been lobbying for this for a second.
Do musicians really deserve getting paid for that long? I mean, the idea of copyright is to stimulate innovation and that a creator should be able to collect an income on it. But for how long?
Can we really say that musicians will produce less because they won't get paid for more than 45 years for their hit song? I personally see copyright of music (not inventions) as something that is given as a reward to an artist for enriching some people's lives, but I don't think they should be able to live 95 years off of it.
My conclusion is: They should be forced to work, like the rest of us. Of course, this is assuming that is was the artist who wanted the extended copyright and not the media companies, which are the real winners.
The big media companies are going to have a finger in designing these boxes. They are going to lock them down. They are going to use YOUR bandwidth to push THEIR content that you may not even have bought or have access to.
I am not going to let a media company leech off my bandwidth so that they can push content I don't even own, want or can access.
Well then let's not let it in the backdoor. The first thing we can do is stop calling it 'Intelligent Design' which is a pr-term to disguise what it really is: Creationism (or in my mind: A step 1000 years back in time for real science.)
And if you are a grown, college educated person, who believe that the Grand Canyon was formed by a three day flood, you are not a believer. You are a fool.
Actually it's a bit more complicated than that. Let's do a short summary:
We have seven (7) parties in the Riksdag in Sweden, The leftists, the social democrats, the environmentalists (they form a loose group but squabble a lot). We also have the center, the people's party, the christian democrats and the moderate party. These last four parties formed an Alliance (commonly referred to as "the alliance") last election and won.
They are the ones that voted for the law. However, it was the Social democrats who proposed the new law a couple of years back, this is also the party whose minister of justice pushed for a bill in the EUropean parliament that all ISP's in the EU be forced to store traffic data on it's customers for two years. This is the infamous "data retention law".
So right now we have the three opposition parties complaining about the law, when one of them wanted it in the first place. It is unclear if the other two would in fact tear it up, should they come into power.
It's a bloody mess. And to make things worse, we have the "Sverigedemokraterna" (a party with a very cloudy past involving nazimeetings and burnings of Mosque's etc.) using the FRA-law as a hammer to get more voters in the next election.
Just in case you didn't know, there were 67 politicians missing from the vote. These were spread on both sides of the issue.
If only 6 of the politicians that were against the law would have shown up for 10 minutes and voted against, this message wouldn't be caught in the FRA system as I press submit.
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Let's look away from the media companies who has obviously been lobbying for this for a second.
Do musicians really deserve getting paid for that long? I mean, the idea of copyright is to stimulate innovation and that a creator should be able to collect an income on it. But for how long?
Can we really say that musicians will produce less because they won't get paid for more than 45 years for their hit song?
I personally see copyright of music (not inventions) as something that is given as a reward to an artist for enriching some people's lives, but I don't think they should be able to live 95 years off of it.
My conclusion is: They should be forced to work, like the rest of us. Of course, this is assuming that is was the artist who wanted the extended copyright and not the media companies, which are the real winners.
Here is what is going to happen:
The big media companies are going to have a finger in designing these boxes.
They are going to lock them down.
They are going to use YOUR bandwidth to push THEIR content that you may not even have bought or have access to.
I am not going to let a media company leech off my bandwidth so that they can push content I don't even own, want or can access.
What's Warhammer? I spent all my youth years dating very beautiful women and being a loveguru in Asia.
Nowadays I just sit on slashdot between my jobs as a underwear model judge.
Well then let's not let it in the backdoor. The first thing we can do is stop calling it 'Intelligent Design' which is a pr-term to disguise what it really is: Creationism (or in my mind: A step 1000 years back in time for real science.)
And if you are a grown, college educated person, who believe that the Grand Canyon was formed by a three day flood, you are not a believer. You are a fool.
Actually it's a bit more complicated than that. Let's do a short summary:
We have seven (7) parties in the Riksdag in Sweden, The leftists, the social democrats, the environmentalists (they form a loose group but squabble a lot). We also have the center, the people's party, the christian democrats and the moderate party. These last four parties formed an Alliance (commonly referred to as "the alliance") last election and won.
They are the ones that voted for the law. However, it was the Social democrats who proposed the new law a couple of years back, this is also the party whose minister of justice pushed for a bill in the EUropean parliament that all ISP's in the EU be forced to store traffic data on it's customers for two years. This is the infamous "data retention law".
So right now we have the three opposition parties complaining about the law, when one of them wanted it in the first place. It is unclear if the other two would in fact tear it up, should they come into power.
It's a bloody mess. And to make things worse, we have the "Sverigedemokraterna" (a party with a very cloudy past involving nazimeetings and burnings of Mosque's etc.) using the FRA-law as a hammer to get more voters in the next election.
Just in case you didn't know, there were 67 politicians missing from the vote. These were spread on both sides of the issue. If only 6 of the politicians that were against the law would have shown up for 10 minutes and voted against, this message wouldn't be caught in the FRA system as I press submit.