Comments on: US ’6 Strike’ Rule Starts This Sunday, How Are You Preparing?

By: maigo_ghost

maigo_ghost — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:51:42 +0000

My hope is that the ISP’s know this is going to backfire on all their end-user customers with bad security and are ready to blame it on pressure from MPAA and RIAA .

When it comes down to it every attempt at control is a temporary measure against power users at best. They have tried blocking web sites in other countries and failed because they keep getting it into their heads that TCP/IP protocol suite can be tamed. The whole thing was designed to be work independent of anything and everything. The best way to understand this, I think, is to understand how the technically incompetent people the MPAA/RIAA have (they seem to fire people until they are told what they want to hear) constantly fixated on a single aspect of the technology as being some sort of linchpin and get it into their their heads that “if only we can get their ip addresses!” or “if only we can get the ISP’s to block the URLs!” and keep forgetting that they are dealing with something that is conceptually and practically redundant at every level of organization. Ip addresses can be forwarded, url’s can be accessed through proxy url’s, etc.. Nothing is for certain of course, but on the issue of blocking sites, they are going to be making themselves unpopular without any concrete gain because short of a police state and invasive filtering that even SOPA would not have allowed there is no way stop the flow of information. China has yet to succeed in completely cutting something off for crying out loud. I have to admit watching capitalist brains explode is a bit fun.

The scandalous thing to me is that they are not losing money. Take a look sometime at the number of albums (physical and digital) that have been sold and the graph is relatively flat.

By: litesp33d

litesp33d — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:04:17 +0000

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.

By: Kommissar

Kommissar — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:39:00 +0000

It’s bad business for the ISP to disconnect a pirating user. Pirates often pay for higher end service that costs more and has a great profit margin. Pirating is good business for the ISP. I’m sure they’ll do everything in their power to be sluggish and slow in identifying and dealing with pirates, just because it’s bad for business to cut-and-run from your best customers.

By: Mark Van Pelt

Mark Van Pelt — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:18:41 +0000

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