torrentfreak.com — Last week, seven Swedish MPs wrote to a prominent Swedish tabloid newspaper ‘Expressen’ to express their dissatisfaction with proposals for dealing with copyright infringers. Now, that number has increased to 13, and the issue seems to keep growing.
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jqp123Jan 11, 2008
" I wonder if a world without copyright law would work?"Sure, it would work, the world wouldn't come to a standstill but some adjustments would be made. For starters, the quality and quantity of entertainment and other content would probably take a nosedive. I suspect that what the pirates really want is unattainable --- high quality, zero cost. The Swedish public might have a better appreciation of this if more of the content was actually produced in Sweden.
init100Jan 11, 2008
Radan mentioned a few modern ones. If you are a bit older, you might have heard of ABBA, Europe, Roxette or Ace of Base.
init100Jan 12, 2008
@actorboyIf you read me as a piracy advocate, you read me wrong. I don't pirate, but I do argue for copyright reform.Besides, if they couldn't use piracy as a reason, they would use terrorism or something else instead.
init100Jan 12, 2008
@fkr3The problem is that only very recently (read: last year), the music companies have started to remove DRM, which to me is a precondition to creating a useful download service. They have been dragged kicking and screaming into this, refusing their content to be sold online for the longest time. If they had moved on to selling unprotected mp3 files right away, they would probably have prevented file-sharing from becoming as entrenched as it is now.An analogy: A couple of years ago, the Swedish government heavily raised taxes on cigarettes. A good initiative from a health perspective, sure, but what they didn't count on was that many people would rather start buying cigarettes from smugglers than quitting or reducing their consumption (the desired effect). After a while the government realized this, and lowered the taxes to decrease the smuggling (since the smugglers brought increased crime in other areas too), but this had a limited effect. People had now been accustomed to buying from the smugglers, so few went back to buying from the stores.
init100Jan 12, 2008
@JQP123"So you want the government to protect *your* valuable information? Essentially, you want the government to treat *your* information just like it's "property"? Even though you insist it's not "real property"?"I do. I happen to think that private information should remain private if the subject of the information thinks so."Really? So if your employer took your identity information and posted in the internet, that would be OK? You gave the employer the information, essentially you "published" it?"No, it would not be OK. Employment requires some private information to be shared with the employer, but that does not mean that the employer has a right to publish it."By your narrow minded definition, it's now public --- even though the info was provided with the understanding and expectation that it wouldn't be distributed any further."Yes, that's correct, since "unpublishing" information is theoretically and practically impossible. But the act of publishing the private information against the subject's will should still be harshly punished, and the employer should pay hefty damages.
jqp123Jan 13, 2008
"How would that work?"See some of my other posts in this thread. Currently, piracy is rampant largely because access to high quality content can be obtained easily and anonymously by simply buying a CD/DVD . This is a temporary, transitional marketplace condition in my opinion that will change in the next few years.