GERMANS risk two years in prison if they illegally download films and music for private use under a new law agreed yesterday. Anybody who downloads films for commercial use could be jailed for up to five years.
The measures, some of the toughest in Europe, were announced after an aggressive campaign by the film industry in Germany, the largest market in the EU and one of the most computer-literate populations.
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I recomend that they start investing some development time in anonymous p2p technology. There are several workable options that can be further improved. Ants has done much advancement.
It’s things like this that make me worry that the US is gonna start laws like this. I mean besides the ones that are already in place. You know like those good ‘ol FBI warnings!
thats rough
“Anybody who downloads films for commercial use”
Not me I don’t charge anyone to see what I have. No money exchanges hands.
Mhhh….
Ok Guys as Im from germany… where is a real good anonym. P2P?
“GERMANS risk two years in prison if they illegally download films and music for private use”
private use also carries a stiff penalty as well bobhss.
Bit Torrent is probably as anonym as you can get I reckon. But then again I havn’t used many different programs.
This could be all bark and no bite. If the artical is correct it sounds like it only deals with prereleased stuff the US. already as a law just like this as of last year. The artical says that under the new law Enforcement will be left to the state prosecutor. Authorities hunting internet pirates will be able to pass on details to film and music producers who can then inform the police. Now why wouldn’t they just let the movie companies do their own hunting of users and report them to police? My hope is this will be a toothless law the Authorities who ever that is could just say to the movie companies thanks but just not a priorty right now. Maybe just maybe this law might also take away media companies ablity to sue like thev’e been doing
Here is a link to the most advanced Anonymous P2P program at the moment. http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=27579
Read the details. It does not make you invisible. Your transfers are proxied through other nodes so you have “denyability”. The program is still under aggressive development but is very usable and secure.
The internal IRC is used to bootstrap and link the peers together. Ants is all the connected peers.
Here is Java Web Installer. You must have java installed: http://www.myjavaserver.com/~gwren/Ants/antsp2p.jnlp
Germany was almost the most oppressive EU state jailing people for having views the government does not like. I guess this is another example
Not good for germans.
That is not entirly fair. Italy’s laws also threaten to jail people for some time now. I guess that is why Ants is being developed in Italy. If the RIAA has their way this will soon be the law everywhere.
That is a true version of DEMOCRAZY; some very special kind of madhouse law…
If the poor kiddies “steal” some mp3s they will be thrown into jail if they cannot pay the penalty.
That’s what THEY call JUSTICE!
If one country steal some other country THEY call this DONATION OF DEMOCRACY!
DEMOCRACY or DEMOCRAZY – we are the FOOLS and THEY give us RULES…
If the cost of war would be donated to the RIAA everybody could share all needed information and sleep silently in heavenly peace…
Look here: http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
So it’s a bad mad world… and we are all victims of dangerous institutions…
There are RULES FOR THE FOOLS – but there are RULES OF THE FOOLS too:
CONFESSION HAS TO BE FREE!
CUTURAL ASSETS HAS TO BE FREE!
INFORMATION HAS TO BE FREE!
INTERNET HAS TO BE FREE!
SOFTWARE HAS TO BE FREE!
SPEECH HAS TO BE FREE!
TIBET HAS TO BE FREE!
YOU AND ME HAVE TO BE FREE!
Of course there is much more to be FREE – but not LESS!
And you will ask me: WHO SHOULD PAY FOR THE CLAIMS OF THE RIAA?????
Our GOVERNMENTS – that’s why we elected those MOTHERFUCKERS!yers and iPods with good musack!
To secure our SOCIAL WELFARE!!!!
And not to bust our kidz who like filling there mp3-pla
Okay Folkz time to go back into the straitjacket and to return to my funny farm where live is much more beautiful
food clothes internet music and movieshows are already FREE and paid from SOCIAL WELFARE budgetz…
and the attendants always wear clean white coats… and spend the finest drugs if we are going to feel not so good…
So MOTHERFUCKERS:
WHO IS THE REAL FOOL NOW – KNOWING RIGHT FROM WRONG?????
once again proves that money (from Movie Industry) can buy any laws… now we will just have to wait and see if the law actually has any effect..