What makes me roll my eyes about this treaty (not the protest against it but the actual treaty) is that the countries that are the worst offenders AREN'T signing. So in effect it will do nothing against piracy at the source and instead will only act as a censor (which might be real behind the scenes, especially after Arab Spring.) Not to mention criminalize something that is quite frankly a civil issue. It isn't crime to commit copyright infringement, it's a civil matter. The fact that it's becoming criminalized pisses me off, because once again, corporations are pawning their shit off to governments to enforce, instead of getting off their asses and coming up with new sources of revenues or doing it themselves
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I totally agree with that first paragraph of yours. (not that I don't agree with the second one, just that I didn't know about Japan's history in this kind of thing.)
The thing is, prohibition doesn't work. It hasn't ever worked. If the worst cfomes to the worst, and the internet goes completely dark, I will be recording shows on my VCR, burning them for my friends overseas and mailing them.
Also, way back when before playlists cut all the joy out of listening to the radio, I used to record music off the radio to listen to and decide whether or not to buy it. I will not buy something I have not heard, and I just plain don't like 99% of the stuff that's pushed at me by the radio playlists. I buy music after downloading it, listening to it and deciding I can't live without it. I have over 2,000 CDs, so that's a lot of money for record companies. So they will lose out on money for music I would possibly have bought if I can't hear it first.
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The thing is, prohibition doesn't work. It hasn't ever worked. If the worst cfomes to the worst, and the internet goes completely dark, I will be recording shows on my VCR, burning them for my friends overseas and mailing them.
Also, way back when before playlists cut all the joy out of listening to the radio, I used to record music off the radio to listen to and decide whether or not to buy it. I will not buy something I have not heard, and I just plain don't like 99% of the stuff that's pushed at me by the radio playlists. I buy music after downloading it, listening to it and deciding I can't live without it. I have over 2,000 CDs, so that's a lot of money for record companies. So they will lose out on money for music I would possibly have bought if I can't hear it first.
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