blogs.telegraph.co.uk — On Tuesday 14th, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) posted a message on RnBXclusive.com, stating: "If you have downloaded music using this website you may have committed a criminal offence which carries a maximum penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment and an unlimited fine under UK law." SOCA's threat is a stirring defence of [...]
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pw378Feb 23, 2012
How many illiterate morons are on this site? Have you people never heard of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
eyedocFeb 23, 2012
Before anyone starts taking this too seriously, surely this is a parody?!
The article feels rather tongue-in-cheek to me. Surely no-one would suggest this is at all workable or even morally appropriate?
GDub71Feb 23, 2012
I thought the author bat-s**t crazy at first, but yes, now I think the article is intended to be tongue-in-cheek!
myztryFeb 23, 2012
Okay. Under which jurisdiction do we do these things?
Does the whole world honour one particular national registry of such things, or having realised the issue, do we start again with a global one?
dustinthewind2Feb 23, 2012
This is obviously an Onion-style parody. The article talks about how much "good" it would do to have eternal copyright, then goes on to sarcastically state all the "benefits" (read: drawbacks) of it.
It points out that nothing is completely original anymore, and the fact that that's just how society works. People consume art, and then make art of their own, based partially on the inspiring works of others. This is literally how art in a society works, and copyright law detracts and hinders this process.