http://www.zeropaid.com/news/101389/green-party-warns-erosion-internet-rights-australia/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:28:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.zeropaid.com/news/101389/green-party-warns-erosion-internet-rights-australia/#comment-346865 litesp33d Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:02:02 +0000 http://www.zeropaid.com/?p=101389#comment-346865 This has got nothing to do with copyright.  All the same arguments were put forward when people started copying work onto cassette tapes.  The result was that more people could view the work and sales went UP.  Disney protested taping until they found it was another massive massive revenue stream for them. 
 
This is all about censorship of the internet.  Putting the control of information back into the hands of the powerful.
 
However no one can say that and expect people to go along with it so they pretend it is to protect children from pornography whilst condoning and covering up child rape by clergy. Or it is about stealing an artists livelihood – like anyone in Hollywood has suffered at all because of this.  That Tom Cruise used to be so wealthy and is now down to just 10 mansions sort of thing.
 
This is all about censorship of the internet.  Putting the control of information back into the hands of the powerful.

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