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By: Time to change the channel

Time to change the channel — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:09:24 +0000

It sounds like this multinational taskforce was unclear on international copyright laws as well as how the internet works and it’s laws. If TV-Links gets a decent lawyer and plays their cards right, they might be able to win their case. It’s a last gasp for those trying to regulate and control the info on the net. They’re fighting a losing battle and they know it. Which is why they’re fighting so hard. Meanwhile, there are probably a few sites being created right now based on the old TV-links model. Shut down one and more are created by people who see that there’s a demand and a market.

By: badburt

badburt — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:27:20 +0000

Just a couple of days before the report on the shutdown of the oink website the BBC’s site carried this story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7059881.stm. It’s about Lord Triesman who is proposing anti-filesharing laws in the UK, mainly to stop music piracy. This guy is an ex-student radical and was a member of the communist party for f*cks sake and he wants to stop people sharing music! Looking at him I bet he doesn’t even know how to turn on a computer, let alone download music.
I tried emailing him to explain the sheer stupidity of his proposed laws, like you’ll ever keep up with the downloaders (!), but he doesn’t even have an email address (the site I used to send the email said it was trying to send the message to the House of Commons fax machine, good job I didn’t put my real name & address on it then).
I can only assume that politicians and other people in positions of power are being recruited by the RIAA and BPI to help try and prevent the demise of these now redundant institutions. They will be the only people to lose out from the changes brought about by the internet, the artists and consumers will benefit from a more diverse music scene and cheaper prices.
The history of music is the history of plagiarism, there are no original ideas and the first caveman to start it all off by banging on a rock never got any royalties. This makes the current situation, where creative ideas are metaphorically walled off and used as some kind of currency, all the more crazy. No-one can own an idea, not exclusively anyway, once released into the world it belongs to everyone.
Only trouble is that the middlemen think it belongs to them. Well, f*ck the middlemen!

By: bayoujim

bayoujim — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:27:10 +0000

One of my ancestors in England was the last martyr to be burned at the stake for his religious beliefs, even though I am not religious I still see the same things happening today about controlling us and our freedoms.

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By: snakemaker

snakemaker — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:00:54 +0000

Archiving is more threating than piracy…see what happened to the Library at Alexandria… Soon they’ll be burning the Internet

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By: Alexinthevoid

Alexinthevoid — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:54:11 +0000

Thankyou Wes. Fantastic article. Lets all just keep moving this thing along. This is a toast to a better future. Peace. Alex