Piracy or Privacy?

Just to clear up how finding infringement works, companies simply have software that automatically joins torrent swarms, takes note of your ip, matches this to a list of ISPs, and forwards a notification to them for your identity.

Ohh how sad the movie industry is not making money, how about Avatar the biggest money making movie ever.Make something we want to see the amount of times of been ripped of at the movies for watching rubbish, i think we should pay for it if we like it.

Dave #51

Is that right Dave? Really?

I'm a musician myself. You're the one who doesn't know what you're talking about.

Pointless law again we as parents will have to watch our kids more and more, mostly High school students what happens if the student in the house hold downloads then the blame goes to parents? What will the outcome be then?

I'm a software developer and copyright laws and (the threat of) effective enforcement of these laws is a critical component of how I can stay in business, employ staff and make a living. I use open source software and license a number of my own products as open source. Open Source software is generally freely available but still protected by copyright laws. Controlling distribution of work I produce is important whether its available to end users for free or for a charge. It is not up to consumers to decide how my products are distributed.

While most people here are advocating piracy in the entertainment industry you are shaky ground. Its a pathetic argument that piracy encourages sales by letting people sample products first and its also ridiculous to argue that piracy is ok because the products you want are too expensive. Buy them or do without, none of these are essential items, the products are produced for paying customers and protection of those assets are critical for creating jobs, growth and new technologies / songs / movies / tv programs or whatever.

If you ever produced a creative, valuable, but copyable piece of work you would feel very differently about copyright laws.

#GL #46. Good points all - duly noted. Although I would think that information technology does require a slightly different approach that physical objects (despite my analogy).

Heh - perhaps the internet has realised the old socialist dream of no possessions. Well, sorta.

To Brent 47

You are a fool and very ignorant. The internet is not owned by anyone, if i want i song i will get one and please don't be so stupid to actually believe that the artists suffer that is pure ignorance.

Good thing is that the new bill stipulates that the takedown / fine must go through the Copyright Tribunal or the court. Bad thing is that they are still going to insist on takedowns as well as imposing upto $15,000 fine (Hopefully $15,000 MAX, not per download in a single lawsuit).

I also hope this bill operates under presumption of innocence until proven guilty rather than the other way round like the previous S92a.

Byron #44

Money is not the driving force behind creativity. Most musicians, artists and so forth are dependant on sales of their products to earn a living.