boingboing.net — A source close to the British Labour Government has just given me reliable information about the most radical copyright proposal I've ever seen. An unelected official would have the power to do anything without Parliamentary oversight or debate, provided it was done in the name of protecting copyright.
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coffeeroxNov 20, 2009
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farfromokNov 20, 2009
My generation grew up under the Tories and longed for a Labour Government, a Government for the people. What a disappointing joke. Final straw guys, I will *never* vote Labour again.
theaceoffireNov 20, 2009
I agree wtih your comment PigFister, but I have noticed a large number of people are copying and pasting it without fixing the spelling errors, broken links, etc. For your convinence, I tried to correct a version of your post:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Let us not forget who is actually behind the MPAA and RIAA. Below are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways. Please purchase only 2'nd hand media, share cd's/dvd's with friends and family, have family movie night instead of going to theaters, do not purchase anything branded Sony/Disney/Universal/etc.Why allow the hardware to be taken from us with DRM? DRM that was designed to take away rights will not to stop piracy, but will only punish those who legally purchase merchandise. Stop punishing those of us who are actual customers.Name and shame the companies; The **AA trade group name exisis to protect the Corporations from bad publicity and plausible deniability.RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, PRS, IFPI, ASCAP, Ect:# Christian Music Group # EMI# Sony BMG Music Entertainment# Universal Music Group# Warner Music Group//Continued on Wikipedia<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RIAA_member_labels" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RIAA_member_l ...</a>//Continued on RIAA's Site<a class="user" href="http://www.riaa.com/aboutus.php?content_selector=aboutus_members" rel="nofollow">http://www.riaa.com/aboutus.php?content_selector=a ...</a>MPAA, MPA, FACT, AFACT, Ect:# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)# Paramount Pictures Viacom—(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)# Sony Pictures# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)# The Walt Disney Company# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)====================================================================Then we have the issue of the corruption of Radio to push Sony BMG Music:<a class="user" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/25/AR2005072501624.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...</a>Also, the RIAA attempted to claim ownership of ALL artist royalties for internet radio:<a class="user" href="http://slashdot.org/articles/07/04/29/0335224.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://slashdot.org/articles/07/04/29/0335224.shtm ...</a>(Which links to:) <a class="user" href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/24/141326/870" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/24/141326 ...</a>An exceprt from the above links: "With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free ... So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties.'"
Closed AccountNov 20, 2009
Then you need to copyright all your personal speech and correspondence to any politician in Britain and when one of them quotes you without permission you have them arrested to show the insanity of the laws in question.Unless of course they're going to decree that only corporations can copyright material...
auto98Nov 20, 2009
Small point, but when used in newspapers the phrase "a source close to" means that there is no source and it is made up. Or, someone who once saw someone who cleaned the kitchens of the neighbour of someone who was in the car behind someone else who once met someone from the labour party.
zunipusNov 20, 2009
LOL! Lick Our Lolliesbayba!
culytNov 21, 2009
Agreed. I can't wait until I can put my 4TB worth of crap onto a USB thumbdrive and walk to a friends house. (or maybe lightpeak, even at USB3.0 speeds trying to copy 4TB would be a pain). There is also the possibility for people to sign up to snail mail filesharing networks where you pass an encrypted drive around and just have a built in trust system to ensure no one steal the harddrive drive (ie you only invite people you know in real life).Unfortunately at the same time, I will probably go from standard HD rips to 1080p not to mention the future possibility of 4k/8k or 3d (or both), so it won't all be great.Of course music isn't going to take more space, even if we move from mp3 to flac it doesn't increase that much, maybe if we went to 5.1 surround sound or that 22 speaker setup that is planned for 4k/8k cinemas, but seeing how most people prefer mp3 quality of lossless I don't see that happening. No one has really bothered with 5.1 or music videos of a large scale yet.Books won't increase in size, you can stick 20,000 on a DVD, I already have like 40,000. You can download 15k in one torrent pack (google '15k ebooks'). Plus there is the Gutenberg / archive.org / google public domain collections.Also encrypted, anonymous darknets like freenet, which while slow (although still fast enough for small things like music) will get faster as more places move from ADSL to fiber to the home and such. As well as people increasing the software speed.