Re: [microsound] the real situation with copyright laws in us

["jan.l" <jl@xxxxxxx>]

courts dont go after anyone. *you* have to go after the corporates and make sure
the courts apply the law on them. activate youself, dont just sit by the omputer
and complain.

and stopping one or two corporations is meaningless as some other will just take
over and continue. i suggest you work politically to change the economic system.

the corporates dont go after filesharing. they wouldnt care who you share your
files with as long as it is *your* files and not anything that they (and their
artists) own the copyright on.

by pirating stuff you are not robbing a corporation. you are just making some
other corporates fatter. the shoddy porn guys behind Kazaa and the telecom
companies that makes money on your bandwidth usage.

the figures from the ISP:s varies a little but their estimates are 30-60% of the
bandwidth on their networks is file-sharing. these figures are from people that
have an interest in "file-sharing" (they make money out of it) and may be on the
low side ...

and, as the link posted by Kim Cascone shows, they Sonys and Warners are going
after the individual file sharers now. I have seen the materials that Time
Warner provided in a nasty letter to a broadband provider - Time Warner
apparently uses purposebuilt IP-sniffing tools as they knew which films and
which music, dates & times and the full Kazaa account information (usernames
etc.). Plus of course the IP-address etc.

The fact that Time Warner knows peoples Kazaa identities is a nice opening. They
could probably be sued and slapped with the DMCA.

On 03-01-21 svinrave@xxxxxxxxx (svin) wrote:

>In the past there were several COurt decisions on
>the matter basically to the effect that copright
>laws should help to increase creativity by
>rewarding talents
>
>and MUST be limited as possible in order not to
>jeopardize exchange of ideas and accesebility of
>arts and stuff
>
>courts should be going after corporations not
>after sharing or God forbid lybraries
>check this
>http://www.eff.org/
>and this
>http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/
>
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