Comments | deviltenchi: Scary & Sad

deviltenchi

Scary & Sad

Jul 02, 2006 10:38

I’ve been reading up on the whole Pirate Bay incident that happened in Sweden last month. If this thing gets any bigger I predict that we’ll have internet regulation laws in place within 5 years. That scares me a bit, I don’t want big brother standing over my shoulder every time I check my freaking e-mail! I can see us in ten years having to check ( Read more... )

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ok so I read it... gath_of_baal July 3 2006, 06:15:34 UTC

I am also sadned by this. I however am saddned that it has reached this level. When a company invests money in R&D they have the copyright for what they produce. this copyright is an incentive given them by our governemnt to incetnivize the company into producing the new good X however when another country copies that work and gets the benifits and then distributes those benifits to others it is essentually destroying the copyright and the incentive to the business to innovate.

This is the basis of our financial system if we loose controll of our copyrights then companies will loose their incentive to produce new and better things. and if that happens then america looses its edge.

so what do we do? we have this huge problem with countries outside of ours breaking the law and "stealing" from us companies....
what do you think we should do?

Re: ok so I read it... glasshawk July 3 2006, 16:02:03 UTC

Alas, but this was not a country stealing the ideas, but small number of people downloading things such as TV shows and music. And the RIAA has proven by its own figures that P2P sharing did not cause the slump in music sales, the overall economic downturn caused it. The RIAA and MPAA are simply looking for scapegoats to explain lower profits in a depressed economy. The MPAA and RIAA will not adapt to changing times, since they exist to further the rampant profits of a select few. I only download movies to see if I want to bother spending the obscene cost of a ticket or to buy them once they hit DVD. And as to music, alas, but the last time I bought an American CD, or even downloaded one, was a while ago.

lets take a deap breath and dive into copyright law gath_of_baal July 3 2006, 20:16:45 UTC

First, copyright law is not just for the protection of DVDs CDs and other stuff that was available on this site. It is for the protection of cars, tools, and ideas or logs things that take years to build. Let’s take Jeep for example; this SUV took years to build a name brand and a look that was specifically jeep. The name itself is worth millions of dollars in investment by the company. So copyright law is there to protect the jeep name from knock offs trying to get a piece of their name ( ... )

Re: lets take a deap breath and dive into copyright law deviltenchi July 3 2006, 22:06:32 UTC

This is a sensitive topic here, I agree that copyright laws should be enforced, but what worries me is corporations like the MPAA & RIAA taking things to extremes. When things go down like what happened with the Pirate Bay, of course examples where made, but the site was back up in less than 2 days, then fully operational in less than a week. Now they have even more servers and publicity than ever before. Now how is the MPAA & RIAA going to respond to this ( ... )